The University of Western Australia

Dr Stephanie Tarbin

Lecturer
History

Contact details

Address

History
The University of Western Australia (M204)
35 Stirling Highway
CRAWLEY WA 6009
Australia

Phone

6488 2148

Fax

6488 1069

Email

stephanie.tarbin@uwa.edu.au

Qualifications

BA PhD W.Aust.

Key research

General interests span late medieval and early modern social history; history of gender and sexualities; history of families and households; urban history. Areas of special interest include: moral regulation, poor children, single men, women's household relationships in medieval and early modern England.

Publications

Article: ‘Caring for poor and fatherless children in late medieval London’, Journal of the History of Childhood and Youth, Vol 3, no. 3 (Fall, 2010): 391-410.
Essay (with Philippa Maddern), ‘Life-cycle’ in A Cultural History of Childhood and Family, Volume 3, Early Modern Period (1400-1650), Silvia Evangelisti and Sandra Cavallo eds (Berg Publishing, 2010).
Edited collection: Women, Identities and Communities in Early Modern Europe (edited with Susan Broomhall), Women and Gender in the Early Modern World Series, (Aldershot: Ashgate, 2008). Available at http://www.ashgate.com/default.aspx?page=637&calctitle=1&pageSubject=1102&title_id=9897&edition_id=10518
Essay: ‘”Good Friendship” in the Household: Illicit Sexuality, Emotions and Women’s Relationships in Late-Sixteenth Century England’ in S. Broomhall ed., Emotions in the Household, 1200-1900, Palgrave, 2008.
Essay: 'Moral regulation and civic identity in pre-Reformation London' in L. Rasmussen, V. Spear and D. Tillotson (eds), Our Medieval Heritage: Essays in Honour of John Tillotson, Merton Priory Press, 2002.
Essay: '"Pucelle de Dieu" or "Wicche of Fraunce": fifteenth-century perceptions of Joan of Arc', in Andrew Lynch and Philippa Maddern (eds), Venus and Mars: Engendering Love and War in Medieval and Early Modern Europe, Nedlands, University of Western Australia Press, 1995, pp. 119-46.

Future research

Childhood and emotion in early modern England

Funding received

• Living as a Child: Children’s Experiences in England c.140-1750’ (ARC Discovery Grant, with Philippa Maddern and Claudia Jarzebowski).
• Convenor of the NEER Research Cluster ‘Children in Europe and the Australian Colonies, 1350-1850’.

Memberships

• Australia and New Zealand Association for Medieval and Early Modern Studies.
• Australian Historical Association.
• Network for Early European Research.
• North American Association for British Studies.
• Perth Medieval and Renaissance Group.
• Society for Medieval Feminist Studies.

Previous positions

2003-2007: Research fellow on the ARC funded Discovery Project, 'Beyond the Family: Fragmented families and household dynamics in England, 1400-1830' (Prof. Philippa Maddern, Dr Pamela Sharpe and Dr Susan Broomhall).

Teaching

I teach medieval and early modern European history at all undergraduate levels and supervise postgraduate students working in the field of English social history, 1400-1850.

Current projects

Current projects:
•Living as a Child: Children’s Experiences in England c.140-1750’ (ARC Discovery Grant, with Philippa Maddern and Claudia Jarzebowski).
• Fragmented Families: Household Dynamics in England, 1350-1650 (Working title of monograph, co-authored with Philippa Maddern, under contract to Brepols).

Research profile

Research profile and publications