Associate Professor Jan Shaw serves in the Discipline of English and Writing within the School of Art, Communication and English at the University of Sydney's Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences. She holds a BSc, Graduate Diploma in Arts, and PhD from the University of Sydney. As Associate Dean, Education for the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, she contributes to educational leadership and curriculum development. Shaw is a board member of the Medieval and Early Modern Centre and holds memberships in the International Arthurian Society (ANZ Branch), the Society for the Study of Narrative Literature, and participates in the Global Middle Ages network. Her academic career includes prior roles as Lecturer in the Department of English and Director of Professional Communication Programs.

Shaw teaches, supervises, and researches Middle English literature, with specializations in medieval romance, narrative identity, space, gender, memory, and intersections between literature and leadership theory. Key publications include her monograph Space, Gender, and Memory in Middle English Romance: Architectures of Wonder in Mélusine, which analyzes the textual habitus of wonder alongside Middle English traditions of love, marriage, and governance. Recent work features 'Narrative, Place-making, and Dwelling in Jean d'Arras's Mélusine' (Textual Practice, 2024) and 'Melusine, Invisible Leadership and the Future (in the Past)' (Medieval Forum). She co-edited Storytelling: Critical and Creative Approaches (Palgrave Macmillan, 2014) with L. E. Semler and Philippa Kelly, featuring chapters on narrative in various contexts. Earlier publications encompass 'Papering the Cracks with Discourse: The Narrative Identity of the Authentic Leader' (Leadership, 2010). Her research illuminates medieval perspectives on community, identity, and the world, bridging historical texts with modern theoretical frameworks. Shaw supervises postgraduate students in medieval studies and delivers courses such as those on romance and adventure narratives from Greek, Roman, and medieval traditions.

Professional Email: jan.shaw@sydney.edu.au