Notes on Contributors
- Notes on Contributors
Katie Barclay is Deputy Director of the ARC Centre of Excellence in the History of Emotions and Associate Professor and Head of Department in History at The University of Adelaide. She has written widely on the history of emotions, gender and family life. Her monographs include Love, Intimacy and Power: Marriage and Patriarchy in Scotland, 1650–1850 (Manchester University Press, 2011); Men on Trial: Performing Emotion, Embodiment and Identity in Ireland, 1800–1845 (Manchester University Press, 2019); and Caritas: Neighbourly Love and the Early Modern Self (Oxford University Press, 2021). With Andrew Lynch and Giovanni Tarantino, she edits the journal Emotions: History, Culture, Society. Her current research explores how quantification practices shaped the self during the industrial revolution.
Dianne Hall is Associate Professor of History at Victoria University, Melbourne, after working at The University of Melbourne and Queen's University, Belfast. She has published widely on violence, religion, and gender in the medieval and early modern period, including articles published in Gender & History and various edited collections. Her article, co-authored with Elizabeth Malcolm, on sexual violence in early modern Europe was published in the Cambridge World History of Violence (Cambridge University Press, 2020). She has also published widely on the history of the Irish in Australia. She is currently working on a monograph with Elizabeth Malcolm on Gender and War in Ireland, 1200–1900.
Naomi McAreavey is a lecturer in Renaissance Literature in University College Dublin. Her research interests lie in the literature and culture of seventeenth-century Ireland, especially the memory cultures of the 1641 rebellion and women's life writing. She is the editor of The Letters of the First Duchess of Ormonde (Renaissance English Text Society/Iter Press, 2021); co-editor, with Julie A. Eckerle, of Women's Life Writing and Early Modern Ireland (University of Nebraska Press, 2019); and co-editor, with Fionnuala Dillane and Emilie Pine, of The Body in Pain in Irish Literature and Culture (Palgrave, 2016).
Una McIlvenna is Hansen Senior Lecturer in History at The University of Melbourne. She works on the tradition of singing the news, from the early modern period through the nineteenth century. Her monograph, Singing the News of Death: Execution Ballads in Europe 1550–1900, will appear with Oxford University Press in 2022, and she has articles on news-singing in Past & Present, Renaissance Studies, Media History, and the Huntington Library Quarterly.
Dolly MacKinnon is an Honorary Associate Professor in cultural history at The University of Queensland. She has published widely with a focus on soundscapes of bells, charity children, and madness. Her recent publications include '"The Bell, like a speedy messenger, runs from house to house, and ear to ear": The Auditory Markers of Gender, Politics and Identity in England, 1500–1700', in Sound, Space and Civility in the British World, 1700–1850 (Routledge, 2019), and 'Emotional Landscapes: Battlefield Memorials to Seventeenth-Century Civil War Conflicts in England and Scotland', in Consolationscapes in the Face of Loss: Grief and Consolation in Space and Time (Routledge, 2019).
Jessica O'Leary is a Research Fellow in the Gender and Womenʼs History Research Centre at the Australian Catholic University. She is a cultural and social historian specialising in gender studies with an interest in politics, diplomacy, and cultural transfer, c. 1450–1700. Her first monograph, entitled Elite Women as Diplomatic Agents in Early Modern Italy and Hungary: The Aragonese Dynastic Network, 1470–1510, is under contract with ARC Humanities Press. She has also published on the history of emotions and letter-writing (with Carolyn James) and on cultural encounter, trade, and diplomacy in the early modern period.
