Our staff represent a broad range of disciplines, offer quality teaching and supervision and undertake invaluable research.

Archaeology

• Dr Alistair Paterson
  Historical archaeology; archaeology of colonialism; cultural landscapes; maritime archaeology.

Centre for Medieval and Early Modern Studies

• Dr Brett Hirsch
  Postdoctoral Research Fellow, CMEMS, School of Humanities and School of Social and Cultural Studies.
  Shakespeare; Late medieval and early modern English drama and culture; scholarly editing and bibliography; digital humanities; cultural and intellectual history; ritual, performance and the occult
• Dr Jaroslav Miller
  Group of Eight European Fellow, CMEMS.
  Associate Professor of History, Palacký University Olomouc
  Urban studies; sociology, cultural anthropology, Early Modern political thought
  

Classics and Ancient History

• Professor Yasmin Haskell
  Latin literature from the 15th to 19th centuries; theory and practice of didactic poetry from antiquity to Romanticism; poetry and poetics of the early modern Society of Jesus; classical tradition, history of medicine.
• Professor John Melville-Jones
  Ancient coinage; Byzantine and Venetian historiography.

English and Cultural Studies

• Professor Andrew Lynch (Director, CMEMS)
  Medieval literature and culture; Arthurian studies; medieval/medievalist war and peace writing; medievalism in Australian cultural memory.
• Dr Danijela Kambaskovic-Sawers
  Renaissance English literature.
• Dr Jenna Mead
  Late fourteenth-century English medieval writing and its ongoing influence in post-medieval periods.
  
• Professor Bob White
  Shakespeare; Shakespeare cinema; Renaissance literature; pacifism and human rights in literature and film history.

European Languages and Studies

• Professor Lorenzo Polizzotto
  Italian Renaissance history and literature; Florentine religious history.

History

• Dr David Barrie
  Crime, policing and punishment in Scotland in the 18th and 19th centuries; urban order and social stability; urban improvement; and municipal administration and governance.
• Professor Susan Broomhall
  Late medieval and early modern European history, specifically the history of women and gender, science, medicine and technologies, religious change, poverty, and work.
• Professor Philippa Maddern
  15th century English history; gender history; landscape history.
• Dr Stephanie Tarbin
  Late medieval and early modern social history; gender and sexualities; families and households; urban history.

Music

• Dr Nicholas Bannan
  Music and liturgy; music in medieval life.
• Professor Jane Davidson
  Spanish Baroque Opera, Medieval Music Drama; Music, Expression and the Emotions; Music in Every Day Life.
• Dr Suzanne Wijsman
  Early music and historical performance; music iconography and illustration.

Visual Arts

• Professor Richard Read
  17th-century European art and architecture; the Grand Tour; art criticism.

Women's Studies

• Dr Jacqueline Van Gent
  Gender, body and the self in early modern Europe; indigenous people, gender and religious change in Australia.

Honorary and Associate members

• Mr Roger Vella Bonavita
  Honorary Research Associate, History
  C16th Military Architecture with special reference to Malta
• Dr Toby Burrows
  Honorary Research Fellow, History
  Digital technology and the humanities, cultural heritage institutions, medieval religious history
• Dr R S (Smadar) Gabrieli
  Honorary Research Fellow, CMEMS
  Daily Life in the Holy Land: Hand Made Pottery of the 12th-16th Centuries
• A/Prof Andrew Hunwick
  Honorary Research Fellow, European Languages and Studies
  Eighteenth-century French literature: Voltaire, Holbach
• Dr Joanne McEwan
  Research Associate, History
  Seventeenth, eighteenth and ninteenth-century British social history; gender history; crime and punishment; social participation in crime and legal processes; representations of female criminality; early modern women’s experiences and support networks; constructions of truth, identity and support in legal narratives; the Elizabeth Canning case; social interaction in family, household, neighbourhood and community contexts; uses and boundaries of household spaces; early modern representations of female sexuality, especially in the work of Artemisia Gentileschi (1593-1653)
  
• Dr Claire McIlroy
  Fourteenth-century English mystics; middle English devotional literature; history of religious solitude; medieval rhetoric; gender identity in literature.
• Dr Christine Porr
  Honorary Research Fellow, School of Humanities and CMEMS
  Architecture of the time of the Ottonians in the federal state of Saxony-Anhalt in Germany.
• Dr Shane McLeod
  Early Career Researcher, History
  The early medieval world, especially migration and issues of identity during the Viking Age.
  
• Dr Sally Quin
  Curator, Lawrence Wilson Art Gallery
• Dr Kate Riley
  Early Career Researcher, History
  Early modern religious, social and cultural history: religion, gender and the family in early modern England; seventeenth-century English conformism and Puritanism; performance and drama in early modern European education (Catholic and Protestant)
  
• Dr Anne Scott
  Honorary Research Fellow, English and Cultural Studies
  Iconography of poverty in medieval literature and art; general issues of poverty in the medieval and early modern periods; medieval penitential manuals.
• E/Prof John Scott
  Senior Honorary Research Fellow, European Languages and Studies
  Dante and the Renaissance
• Dr Giovanni Tarantino
  Honorary Research Fellow with the School of Humanities and CMEMS
  Intellectual history; early modern European history; enlightenment studies
  
• E/Prof John Tonkin
  Senior Honorary Research Fellow, History
  Early modern European history, Medieval religious history, Western Australian religious history
• E/Prof David Tunley
  Senior Honorary Research Fellow, Music
  Australian and British music in the twentieth century, French music (baroque to romantic periods), Historical musicology
  
• E/Prof Christopher Wortham
  Senior Honorary Research Fellow, English and Cultural Studies
  Elizabethan and Jacobean drama; medieval literature; poetry