Personal details

Personal Details Form - Anne Scott

Title Research Associate Professor
First name Anne
Last name Scott
Discipline / Department English and Cultural Studies
Institution University of Western Australia
Highest qualification PhD
Date of qualification 2001
Email address anne.scott@uwa.edu.au
Web address  
Telephone 08 6488 2187
Fax 08 9293 2050
Mailing address School of Humanities M208
University of Western Australia
35 Stirling Highway
CRAWLEY WA 6009
Australia
Thesis topic (for postgraduates)  
Current research interests The iconography of poverty in medieval literature and art. General issues of poverty in the medieval and early modern periods. Medieval penitential manuals, particularly Handlyng synne and Manuel des Pechiez.
Past research interests Piers Plowman and poverty
Publications Publications
Books
Renaissance Drama and Poetry in Context: Essays for Christopher Wortham (Newcastle: Cambridge Scholars Publications, 2008), edited with Andrew Lynch.

'Piers Plowman and the Poor' (Dublin: The Four Courts Press, 2004), 263 p.: illustration; 24 cm

Book chapters_
'Handlyng Synne_ and Late Medieval Writing for the Laity', in _What Nature Does Not Teach: Didactic Literature in the Medieval and Early Modern Periods,_ed. Juanita Ruys, Disputatio 15, (Turnhout: Brepols, 2008).

'Thomas Hoccleve's Selves Apart': in Early Modern Autobiography: Theories, Genres, Practices, edited by Ronald Bedford, Lloyd Davis and Philippa Kelly (Ann Arbor: UniversityofMichigan Press, 2006).

Sole-authored Journal articles
'Finding words to embody poverty: continuities and discontinuities in word and image from Piers Plowman to twenty-first century Australia', Medium Aevum Quotidianum 56, 2007

'"Nevere noon so nedy ne poverer deide": Piers Plowman and the value of poverty', Yearbook of Langland Studies, 15 (2001), 141-53.
'Discourses of Kingship in Measure for Measure and the Works of James I', Parergon, n.s. 15, 2 (1998), 71-93.
Recent grants ARC Network seed-funding 2004 $10,000
ARC Network for Early European Research 2004-09, $1,6000,000.
NEER Cluster funding (received 2006):
i) Children in Europe and the Australian Colonies c1300 - 1850.
ii) Manuscript Studies and Early European Research. 
UWA Research Grant 2007, $16,000  'Searching for the medieval poor in image and artefact'.
Other relevant information Convenor of ARC Network for Early European Research (from Oct 2006). 
General Secretary of Australian and New Zealand Assoc for Medieval and Early Modern Studies 2000-2006.
Co-editor of Parergon.
Secretary of Perth Medieval and Renaissance Group.
Steering Committee of CARMEN: Co-operative for the Advancement of Research in a Medieval European Network
Member: International Piers Plowman Association
Member: Early English Text Society
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