Notes on Contributors
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W. R. Albury is an Adjunct Professor in the School of Humanities at The University of New England, Armidale, NSW. His principal research interests are the history of science and medicine (c. 1500 to c. 1900), medical and cosmological metaphors in early modern political thought, and medical history in Renaissance art. He is currently completing a monograph on the political philosophy of Castiglione's Book of the Courtier.
David G. Barrie is a lecturer in the Discipline of History at The University of Western Australia, specializing in criminal justice history. He is author of Police in the Age of Improvement: Police Development and the Civic Tradition in Scotland, 1775-1865 (Cullompton: Willan Publishing, 2008) and co-editor (with Susan Broomhall) of A History of Police and Masculinities, 1700-2010 (Routledge/Taylor and Francis, forthcoming, 2011).
Susan Broomhall is Winthrop Professor in early modern history at The University of Western Australia. She has published widely, with specialist volumes on women in the print trade, women's medical work, and women and religion in early modern France. She has recently edited, with David Barrie, A History of Police and Masculinities, 1700-2010, Routledge/Taylor and Francis, 2011.
Matthew Champion is a doctoral candidate at Queen Mary, University of London. His doctoral research, supervised by Professor Miri Rubin, considers the structures and experiences of time in fifteenth-century Burgundy.
Daniel Derrin is currently a doctoral candidate at Macquarie University, Sydney. His research focuses on the intersections between rhetoric and cognition, and, in particular, on English Renaissance ideas about cognition and cognitive processes as theorized within the period's rhetorical traditions. Current work on this topic has focused on the diverse writings of both Francis Bacon and John Donne. [End Page 289]
Catherine Dewhirst is a lecturer in history in the School of Humanities and Communication at The University of Southern Queensland. She teaches early modern and modern European history, World history, and historiography. Her research centres on Italian migration and diaspora histories. She is currently researching the transnational loyalties of Italian migrants and writing a biography of the nineteenth-century migrant, Giovanni Pullè, and early Italian 'community' in Australia.
Jared van Duinen lectures in European and world history at Charles Sturt University. His research interests include early modern European history, transatlantic history, and the history of religion and politics and he has published in all these fields.
Jennifer Nevile is a Visiting Fellow with the School of English, Media and Performing Arts at The University of New South Wales. Her research on early modern dance practices and their relationship with other contemporary artistic practices and intellectual movements has appeared in over twenty journal articles and book chapters, as well as in her monograph The Eloquent Body: Dance and Humanist Culture in Fifteenth-Century Italy (Bloomington, Indiana University Press, 2004), which explored dance as a physical expression of Renaissance humanism. She has also edited the essay collection Dance, Spectacle, and the Body Politick, 1250-1750 (Bloomington, Indiana University Press, 2008).
Joanne W. Roby is a doctoral candidate in the Department of English at The University of Maryland. Her dissertation, 'Private Scandal in the Public Sphere: The Polemical Mode of the Early Eighteenth Century', historicizes the use of sexual scandal as a discursive and polemical strategy in the for-profit commercial press in England in the late seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries.
Francisc Szekely is a doctoral candidate in the Department of English at The University of Auckland. His research is focused on scientific, juridical, and novelistic discourses, as well as their historical, philosophical, and critical applications to the period c. 1660 to c. 1760. His doctoral thesis is provisionally titled 'Microscopes, Keyholes, and Novels: Throughness and the Nature of Visibility in the Age of Enlightenment' [End Page 290]
G. M. Weisz is an orthopaedic and spinal surgeon, and a medical historian. He holds appointments in the latter capacity as Visiting Fellow in the School of History and Philosophy at The University of New South Wales, Sydney, and Adjunct Lecturer in the School of Humanities at The University of New England, Armidale, NSW. His current research interests include medical history in Renaissance art and medical aspects of the Holocaust and its aftermath...
