Jennifer Spinks
Postdoctoral Research Fellow
Ph.D.
Funded by the DAAD
Residence: January 2 - February 28, 2012
Profile
Jennifer Spinks is an Australian Research Council Postdoctoral Fellow in the School of Historical and Philosophical Studies at The University of Melbourne (2009–2012). Her fellowship is part of the Australian Research Council Discovery Project ‘Reading the Signs: Disaster, Apocalypse and Demonology in European Print Culture, 1450–1700’, jointly held with Professor Charles Zika of the University of Melbourne and Professor Susan Broomhall of the University of Western Australia.Her articles have appeared in journals including Sixteenth Century Studies, Cultural and Social History, Intellectual History Review, and Renaissance Studies. Currently, she is working on a study of ‘wonder books’ in Reformation Europe.
Selected publications
Jennifer Spinks. Monstrous Births and Visual Culture in Sixteenth-Century Germany. Pickering and Chatto, 2009.
Jennifer Spinks and Susan Broomhall. Early Modern Women in the Low Countries: Feminizing Sources and Interpretations of the Past. Burlington: Ashgate, 2011.
