The University of Western Australia

Dr Anne Scott

Honorary Research Fellow
English and Cultural Studies

Contact details

Address

English and Cultural Studies
The University of Western Australia (M208)
35 Stirling Highway
CRAWLEY WA 6009
Australia

Phone

6488 2187

Fax

6488 1069

Email

anne.scott@uwa.edu.au

Personal homepage

http://confluence.arts.uwa.edu.au/display/~amscott/Personal+details

Qualifications

BA MA Oxon., MPhil PhD W.Aust.

Biography

Dr Anne M. Scott is Convenor of the Australian Research Council Network for Early European Research, as well a being an honorary research fellow in the Discipline of English and Cultural Studies at the University of Western Australia. As Network Convenor she brings together researchers across Australia, providing the infrastructure to assist them with inter-institutional and interdisciplinary research collaboration. Her own field of research is in fourteenth-century English Literature, and her monograph entitled ‘Piers Plowman and the poor’, Dublin: Four Courts Press, was published in 2004. She has published several essays on fourteenth- and fifteenth-century English literature, and work is currently in progress for a book on the iconography and representations of poverty in medieval English literature and art. Among other literary diversions, she is co-editor of Parergon, the journal of the Australian and New Zealand Association for Medieval and Early Modern Studies, now available as part of the Project Muse database.

Key research

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".

Publications

Book 150 - 300 pp
Scott, A.M. 2004, "Piers Plowman and the Poor", Four Courts Press, Dublin, Ireland

Book edited collection
Renaissance Drama and Poetry in Context: Essays for Christopher Wortham (Newcastle: Cambridge Scholars Publications, 2008), edited with Andrew Lynch.

European Perceptions of Terra Australis (Ashgate Publishing 2011) in press, ISBN 978-1-4094-2605-9, edited with Alfred Hiatt, Claire McIlroy and Christopher Wortham, and Chapter One, 'Perceptions', pages tba.


Book Chapter
'The enigma of ‘Lady Poverty’ – beautiful ideal or loathly lady?' in Interpreting Francis and Clare of Assisi: from the middle ages to the present, edited by Constant J. Mews and Claire Renkin (Melbourne: Broughton Publishing, 2010), pp. 54-74.

'Speaking Up for the Aged: Thomas Hoccleve and The Regiment of Princes' in Sociability and its discontents : civil society, social capital, and their alternatives in late medieval and early modern Europe eds. Nicholas A. Eckstein and Nicholas Terpstra, Early European Research I (Turnhout: Brepols, 2009), pp. 87-105.

'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).
Scott, A.M. 2006, "Thomas Hoccleve's Selves Apart" in "Early Modern Autobiography: Theories, Genres, Practices", University of Michigan Press, Ann Arbor

Journal Article (Schol Refereed Journal)
Scott, A. 2007 '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 pp. 47-62.
Scott, A. 2001, '"Nevere noon so nedy ne poverer deide": Piers Plowman and the Value of Poverty', The Yearbook of Langland Studies, 15, N/A, pp. 1-13.
Scott, A. 1998, 'Discourses of Kingship in Measure for Measure and the Works of James I', Parergon, 15.2, January 1998, pp. 71-93.

Funding received

CI ARC Network for Early European Research 2005-9 $1.6m
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'.

Languages

English, French, Latin, German

Memberships

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.
Member: International Langland Association
Member: Early English Text Society

Research profile

Research profile and publications