Notes on Contributors
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Tracy Adams received a PhD in French from Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, Maryland, in 1998. Now Associate Professor in French at the University of Auckland, New Zealand, she has also taught at the University of Maryland, the University of Miami, and the University of Lyon III. She is the author of Violent Passions: Managing Love in the Old French Verse Romance (Palgrave Macmillan, 2005) and The Life and Afterlife of Isabeau of Bavaria (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2010). Christine de Pizan and the Fight for France, published by the Pennsylvania State University Press, will appear in 2014.
Gregory W. Dawes gained his first graduate degree at the Pontifical Biblical Institute in Rome in 1988 before returning to New Zealand, where he completed PhD degrees in both Biblical Studies (1995) and Philosophy (2007). He holds a joint appointment as Associate Professor in Philosophy and Religion at the University of Otago, where he teaches the Philosophy of Religion as well as a paper on Religion, Science, and Magic in early modern Europe. He is the author of The Body in Question: Metaphor and Meaning in the Interpretation of Ephesians 5:21-33 (Brill, 1998), The Historical Jesus Question: The Challenge of History to Religious Authority (Westminster John Knox Press, 2001), and Theism and Explanation (Routledge, 2009), in addition to articles in biblical studies and the philosophy of religion.
Mark S. Dawson holds an MA from the University of Auckland, and a PhD from Cambridge University. His publications include Gentility and the Comic Theatre of Late Stuart London (Cambridge University Press, 2005), and, more recently, essays in the Journal of British Studies and Historical Journal as part of an ongoing project concerned with bodily difference and social inequality in early modern England. He teaches courses at the Australian National University, Canberra in the histories of Tudor-Stuart England, the early modern Atlantic world, and race. [End Page 265]
Karen Jillings received her PhD from the University of Aberdeen in 2002. Since 2004 she has taught at Massey University, New Zealand, where she is Senior Lecturer in History. Her research interests focus on medical beliefs in medieval and early modern Europe, particularly responses to plague in Scotland. She is the author of a book entitled Scotland's Black Death: The Foul Death of the English (Tempus, 2003) and several articles and book chapters on various aspects of early modern medicine including humanism and medical teaching, European responses to tobacco, and a number of case studies of plague outbreaks. She is currently compiling a sourcebook for plague in Scotland, 1350-1650.
Kerryn Olsen gained her PhD in English and History from the University of Auckland in 2011, where she taught Old and Middle English for eight years. Her first article, 'Women and Englishness: Anglo-Saxon Female Saints in the South English Legendary' appeared in Limina: A Journal of Historical and Cultural Studies in June 2013, and she is currently working on turning her thesis into a book.
Sarah Randles is a Postdoctoral Fellow in the ARC Centre of Excellence for the History of Emotions at the University of Melbourne. She has published on medieval and later textiles and medievalism in Australian architecture and has a particular interest in the relationships between objects and emotions. Her current research project explores the emotions of pilgrimage and sacred place, focusing on the relics and other aspects of material culture of Chartres Cathedral.
Michelle A. Smith completed a PhD in History at the University of Auckland in 2010. Her thesis was entitled 'Assessing Gender in the Construction of Scottish Identity, c. 1286-c. 1586'. Michelle is the author of 'Gendering the Foundation Myths of Scotland' (in P. O'Neill, ed., Celts in Legend and Reality: Proceedings of the Sixth Celtic Conference, University of Sydney, 2010) and she is currently Curator at the Papakura Museum, New Zealand.
Vrajabhūmi Vanderheyden studied History at the University of Antwerp and Preservation of Monuments and Sites at the Hoger Architectuurinstituut Henry van de Velde (now Artesis). At the present time, she is jointly affiliated with the FWO Research Foundation in Flanders and the Centre for Urban History at the University of Antwerp and is preparing a PhD on the...
