Dr Dianne Hall
| ARC Postdoctoral Fellow | |
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| Telephone: | (+61 3) 8344 5968 |
| Email: | dhall@unimelb.edu.au |
| Fax: | (+61 3) 8344 7894 |
| Location: | Room 332 Bridge History, John Medley Building The University of Melbourne VIC 3010 |
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Research
Dianne Hall has a PhD in medieval Irish history from the University of Melbourne and has worked at Queens University Belfast. She currently holds an ARC post doctoral fellowship researching gender and violence in Irish history. Her research interests are medieval social and women's history, Irish medieval and early modern history and the Irish diaspora, particularly in Australia. She has published Women and the church in medieval Ireland, c.1140-1540, and articles on medieval women, violence and Irish history as well as on Irish settlement in nineteenth century Australia. She is co-author, with Lindsay Proudfoot, of Imagination, Memory and the Colonial Self Critical geographies of migrant identity in nineteenth-century Australia, forthcoming.
Publications
Books
- Dianne Hall, With Lindsay Proudfoot, Imagination, Memory and the Colonial Self Critical geographies of migrant identity in nineteenth-century Australia, Manchester University Press, forthcoming.
- Dianne Hall, Women and the church in medieval Ireland c. 1140-1540, Dublin: Four Courts Press, 2003
Edited books
- Dianne Hall and Elizabeth Malcolm (eds), Gendering the Irish Diaspora: Britain, the United States, Australia and New Zealand, 1830s – 1960s, forthcoming
Chapters
- Dianne Hall and Elizabeth Malcolm, “Introduction: Gendering the Irish Diaspora” in Gendering the Irish Diaspora: Britain, the United States, Australia and New Zealand, 1830s – 1960s, eds D. Hall and E. Malcolm, forthcoming
- Dianne Hall and Elizabeth Malcolm, “Gender, violence and stereotypes: ‘Paddy’ and ‘Biddy’ in Colonial Australia” in Gendering the Irish Diaspora: Britain, the United States, Australia and New Zealand, 1830s – 1960s, eds D. Hall and E. Malcolm, forthcoming
- Dianne Hall and Lindsay Proudfoot, “Irish identities, family lives and the Pleasant Creek gold fields” in Tailings: Forgotten Histories of Family and Community on the Central Victorian Goldfields, eds Charles Fahey and Alan Mayne, forthcoming 2007
- Dianne Hall and Elizabeth Malcolm, “Beyond the Pale: gender and violence in Ireland 1169-1603,” in War, Peace and violence, ed. Robert Frank and Jost Dülffer, Oxford: Berghahn, 2007, forthcoming
- Dianne Hall and Elizabeth Malcolm, "Gender, hybridity and violence on the late medieval Irish Frontiers" in Practices of gender in late medieval and early modern Europe, ed. Megan Cassidy-Welch and Peter Sherlock, Brepols, forthcoming
- Dianne Hall and Lindsay Proudfoot, “Memory and identity in ‘Irish’ Australia: Constructing Alterity in Belfast (Port Fairy) c. 1857-1873,” in Ireland’s Heritages: Critical Perspectives on Memory and Identity, ed. Mark McCarthy. 89-104. Aldershot: Ashgate, 2005
- Dianne Hall, “Irishness, gender and ‘An Up-country township’,” in (Dis)placing Empire: Renegotiating British Colonial Geographies, ed. L. Proudfoot and M. Roche. 81-98. Aldershot: Ashgate, 2005
- Dianne Hall and Lindsay Proudfoot, “From Castle Coole to Sydney Cove: the colonial worlds of Somerset Richard Lowry Corry, 4th Earl of Belmore,” in Fermanagh History and Society, ed. W. Roulston. 241-266. Dublin, Geography Publications, 2004
- Dianne Hall, “Necessary collaborations: Religious women and lay communities in medieval Ireland, c. 1200-1540,” in Female Experiences: Essays in Irish Women’s History, eds Alan Hayes and Diane Urquhart. London, Irish Academic Press, 2003
- Dianne Hall, “Women and violence in medieval Ireland,” in Pawns or players? Studies on medieval and early modern women, eds Christine Meek and Catherine Lawless, 131-140. Dublin, Four Courts Press, 2003
- Dianne Hall, “Immoral and Contemptuous: The trial of Elicia Butler, Abbess of Kilculliheen in sixteenth-century Kilkenny,” in Deviance and Textual Control: New perspectives in Medieval Studies, eds M. Cassidy, H. Hickey and M. Street, 17-33. Melbourne, History Department, 1997
- Dianne Hall, “Chasing the White Rabbit: In search of religious women in medieval Ireland,” in Raiding Clio’s Closet: Postgraduate presentations in History 1997, eds M. Crotty and D. Scobie, 197-209. Melbourne, History Department, 1997
Journals
- Dianne Hall, "Words as weapons: speech, violence and gender in late medieval Ireland" in Éire/Ireland (2006) forthcoming
- Dianne Hall and Lindsay Proudfoot, “Points of Departure. Remittance Emigration from South-West Ulster to New South Wales in the later Nineteenth Century’, in International Review of Social History, 50: 2 (2005) pp. 341-278
- Dianne Hall, “Towards a prosopography of medieval Irish religious women,” in Archivium Hibernicum 53 (1999): 3-15
- Dianne Hall, “The nuns of Lismullin and lay communities,” in Ríocht na Midhe 10 (1999): 58-70
Other publications
- Dianne Hall, "Monasticism and nuns - Celtic" in Women and Gender in Medieval Europe: An Encyclopedia, ed. Margaret Schaus, New York: Routledge, 2006
- Dianne Hall, “Nuns” in Encyclopedia of Medieval Ireland, ed. Seán Duffy, New York, Routledge, 2005
Teaching
131-251: Medieval Chivalry
Supervision
- Mike Slusher (PhD) St Brigit in myth and history
- Celia Scott (PhD) Sanctity and gender in early Irish hagiography
- Robin Ballinger (PhD) Created in our image: the northern plains of Victoria
- Christine McLeod (MA) Eusebius's Church History