Dr Jenny Spinks
| Lecturer and Research Associate | |
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| Email: | jspinks@unimelb.edu.au |
| Fax: | (+61 3) 8344 7894 |
| Location: | Room 531 East |
| Academic Profile (click on the link for more information) | |
| Biography | |
| Research | |
| Publications | |
| Teaching | |
Biography
Jenny Spinks completed a PhD in the School of Historical Studies at The University of Melbourne in 2006, and has tutored and lectured in the School over the last several years. She previously completed an MA in early modern French history at the University of Tasmania, and has worked as a critic and curator of contemporary Australian art and craft. She has taken up research scholarships at the Universities of Heidelberg and Vienna, the British Museum, and most recently held a Grete Sondheimer Fellowship at the the Warburg Institute in London. Jenny is the Early Career Researcher representative on the management committee of the Australian Research Council-funded Network for Early European Research (NEER).
Research
Jenny’s PhD thesis examined the representation of monstrous children and animals in sixteenth-century German print culture. She has several articles on this material published and forthcoming, and is revising her PhD thesis as a book manuscript. Her new research interests include disasters in early modern Europe, and she is in the early stages of a study of “wonder books” in sixteenth-century France and Germany. Jenny is currently employed as a Research Associate on Professor Charles Zika’s ARC Discovery Project “The Living Dead: witchcraft and apparition in Christian belief (3rd to 18th century)”. She was also recently employed on several research projects conducted by Associate Professor Susan Broomhall at the University of Western Australia, and Jenny and Susan have several co-authored articles on early modern Dutch culture forthcoming.
Publications
Articles in refereed journals
- Spinks, Jennifer. “Monstrous births and Counter-Reformation visual polemics: Johann Nas and the 1569 Ecclesia Militans.” Sixteenth Century Journal (2008): 10,000 words [forthcoming]
- Spinks, Jennifer. “Jakob Rueff’s 1554 Trostbüchle: a Zurich physician explains and interprets monstrous births.” Intellectual History Review 18.1 (2008): 41–59
- Spinks, Jennifer. “Wondrous monsters: representing conjoined twins in early sixteenth-century German broadsheets.” Parergon 22.2 (2005): 77–112
- Spinks, Jennifer. “Education and entertainment: the redecoration of Marie-Adélaïde of Savoy’s Ménagerie at Versailles.” Melbourne Art Journal 6 (2003): 25–34
Book Reviews
- Spinks, Jennifer. Review of Peter Burke and R. Po-chia Hsia, eds. Cultural Translation in Early Modern Europe, for H-German [forthcoming]
- Spinks, Jennifer. Review of Hildegard Elisabeth Keller, ed. Jakob Ruf, ein Zürcher Stadtchirurg und Theatermacher im 16. Jahrhundert (vol. 1), for Renaissance and Reformation / Renaissance et Réforme [forthcoming]
- Spinks, Jennifer. Review of Stephan Füssel. Gutenberg and the Impact of Printing, for H-Holy Roman Empire, August 2006, at: www.h-net.org/reviews/showrev.cgi?path=97961160519409
- Spinks, Jennifer. Review of David Hotchkiss Price. Albrecht Dürer’s Renaissance: Humanism, Reformation, and the Art of Faith, for Parergon 23. 1 (2006): 194–196
- Spinks, Jennifer. Review of Ilse Tobias. Die Beichte in den Flugschriften der frühen Reformationszeit, for H-German, January 2005, at: www.hnet.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.cgi?path=102161113596213
- Jennifer Spinks. Review of Christa Grössinger. Humour and Folly in Secular and Profane Prints of Northern Europe, 1430–1540. Review for Parergon 20, no. 2 (2003): 196–198
Teaching
131-085 Witches and Witch-hunting in Europe
131-044 Renaissance Nuremberg and Central Europe (overseas intensive, co-taught with Professor Charles Zika)