Notes on Contributors
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Rick Bowers is Professor of English at the University of Alberta in Canada and author of Radical Comedy in Early Modern England (Ashgate, 2008).
Judith Collard is currently the Programme Coordinator of Art History and Theory based in the History and Art History department of the University of Otago, where she also teaches courses on Medieval and Contemporary Art. She has published articles on illustrations and illuminations in medieval manuscripts and chronicles in Studies in Medieval and Renaissance History, Journal of Medieval History, and Zeitschrift für Kunstgeschichte, and is currently working on a monograph about Matthew Paris and his manuscript works.
Diana Hiller is an independent scholar of early modern Italian painting, focusing on iconography, viewership, and gender issues. She is the author of Gendered Perceptions of Florentine Last Supper Frescoes, c. 1350–1490 (Ashgate, 2014).
Hannah Kilpatrick is a graduate student with the University of Melbourne and the ARC Centre of Excellence for the History of Emotions. Her dissertation is on the representations and meanings of anger in late medieval historiography. She received a joint Masters degree in English and Medieval and Renaissance Studies from the University of Ottawa in 2012. Her research interests include the creation and location of ‘meaning’ in medieval narrative (especially historiographical) and representations of emotions related to violence and transgression.
Megan Leitch is Lecturer in English Literature at Cardiff University (Wales). She received her PhD from the University of Cambridge in 2012. She is the author of Romancing Treason: The Literature of the Wars of the Roses (Oxford University Press, 2015), and has published articles in Medium Aevum, Arthurian Literature, and the Chaucer Review. Her research interests include Arthurian literature, romance, Chaucer, and the fifteenth century, and she is currently working on a monograph on sleep and its spaces in the premodern imagination. [End Page 315]
Constant J. Mews gained his BA and MA from the University of Auckland, New Zealand, and his DPhil from Oxford University. He is Professor within the School of Philosophical, Historical, and International Studies, Monash University where he is also Director of the Centre for Religious Studies. He has published widely on medieval thought, ethics, and religious culture, including Abelard and Heloise (Oxford University Press, 2005) and The Lost Love Letters of Heloise and Abelard: Perceptions of Dialogue in Twelfth-Century France, 2nd edn (Palgrave, 2008). He is currently working on the evolution of theology between the eleventh and thirteenth centuries.
Michael Ovens is a doctoral candidate associated with the Centre for Medieval and Early Modern Studies and the Centre of Excellence for the History of Emotions at the University of Western Australia. His thesis adopts an interdisciplinary approach that fuses intellectual history, sociology, and literary analysis to explore the changing upper-class representations of violence in Europe from 1100–1600, with an eye to applying this work to the problem of violence in the twenty-first century. He is the General Editor of Ceræ: An Australasian Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies, vol. 2, a student of the historical European martial arts, and a lover of bookshops big and small.
Deborah Thorpe is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Centre for Chronic Diseases and Disorders (C2D2) at the University of York, where she is conducting interdisciplinary research into neurological disorders and the work of medieval scribes. Previously, she has been a Research Intern at C2D2, a Research Associate on the Digital Index of Middle English Verse (DIMEV) project at the British Library, and a Research Intern at the Winton Institute for Monetary History at the Ashmolean Museum in Oxford. She has held teaching positions at the University of Surrey and at the University of York, where she completed her doctoral degree. [End Page 316]
