Megan Cassidy-Welch - School of Philosophical, Historical & International Studies
Position
Australian Research Council Future Fellow
megan.cassidy-welch@monash.edu
Phone
61- 3-9902 4691
Address
School of Philosophical, Historical and International Studies
Building 11
Monash University
Victoria, 3800
Australia
Location
S629, 6th Floor, Menzies Building
Personal History
Megan Cassidy-Welch holds an honours degree in history and a PhD in medieval history from the University of Melbourne, and a Masters (with honours) degree in medieval studies from the University of London. She has held continuing positions in medieval European history at the University of Melbourne (2004-11) and the University of Tasmania (1998-2001) and an Australian Research Council Postdoctoral Fellowship at the University of Melbourne (2001-4). Megan's research focusses on thirteenth-century cultural history, particularly aspects of space and memory in England, France and Germany. Megan is currently an Australian Research Council Future Fellow.
Current Research
My current research project is entitled ‘War and Memory in European Culture: A Long Perspective'. This project concerns the creation of memories of the crusades in the European west, particularly during the thirteenth century. This research is funded by an Australian Research Council Future Fellowship, 2011-15.
Major Publications
Books
Cassidy-Welch, Megan, Imprisonment in the Medieval Religious Imagination, c. 1150-1400 (London and New York: Palgrave MacMillan, 2011).
Cassidy-Welch, Megan and Peter Sherlock, eds., Practices of Gender in Late Medieval and Early Modern Europe (Turnhout: Brepols, 2008).
Cassidy-Welch, Megan, Monastic Spaces and their Meanings: Thirteenth-century English Cistercian Monasteries (Turnhout: Brepols, 2001).
Book Chapters
‘The medieval refugee: war, displacement and social justice in thirteenth-century France' in Celia Chazelle, Amy Remensnyder, Simon Doubleday and Felice Lifshitz, eds., Why the Middle Ages Matter (London: Routledge, 2011), in press.
‘L'Emprisonnement dans les textes hagiographiques au moyen âge', in J. Claustre and I. Heullant-Donant, eds., Enfermements: Le Cloître et la prison au moyen âge (Paris: Publications de la Sorbonne, 2011), in press.
‘Images of incarceration in late-medieval art' in Imagination, Books and Community in Medieval Europe, ed. G. Kratzmann (MacMillan Art Publishing/State Library of Victoria, 2009), pp. 190-5.
‘Introduction' (with Peter Sherlock) in Practices of Gender in Late Medieval and Early Modern Europe (with Peter Sherlock) Turnhout: Brepols, 2008), pp. 1-6.
‘Reflecting and creating gender in late-medieval and early modern Europe', in Practices of Gender in Late Medieval and Early Modern Europe (with Peter Sherlock) Turnhout: Brepols, 2008), pp. 317-26.
‘Grief and Memory after the Battle of Agincourt' in Andrew Villalon and Donald Kagay, eds., The Hundred Years War II: Different Vistas (Leiden: Brill, 2008), pp. 133-50.
‘A place of horror and vast solitude: medieval monasticism and the Australian landscape' in Stephanie Trigg, ed., Medievalism and the Gothic in Australia (Turnhout: Brepols; Melbourne: Melbourne University Press, 2005), pp. 189-204.
Journal Articles
‘Images of Blood in the Historia Albigensis of Pierre of les Vaux-de-Cernay', Journal of Religious History 35:4 (2011), in press.
‘Memories of space in thirteenth-century France: displaced people after the Albigensian crusade', Parergon: Journal of the Australian and New Zealand Association for Medieval and Early Modern Studies 27:2 (2010), 111-31.
‘Medieval Practices of Space and Place', Parergon: Journal of the Australian and New Zealand Association for Medieval and Early Modern Studies 27:2 (2010), 1-12.
‘Prison, power and sacrament: images of St Barbara in late medieval art', Journal of Medieval History 35: 4 (2009), 1-14.
‘The Crusades: experience, memory and history', Agora 43: 3 (2008), 19-22.
‘Prisoners of war after Agincourt: gender, mourning and cultures of captivity in fifteenth-century France', Lilith: A Feminist History Journal 12 (2003), 9-22.
‘Pilgrimage and embodiment: captives and the cult of saints in late-medieval Bavaria' Parergon: Journal of the Australian and New Zealand Association for Medieval and Early Modern Studies 20: 2 (2003), 47-70.
‘Testimonies from a fourteenth-century prison: rumour, evidence and truth in the Midi', French History 16:1 (2002), 3-27.
‘Incarceration and Liberation: Prisons in the Cistercian Monastery', Viator: UCLA Journal of Medieval and Renaissance Studies 32 (2001), 1-25.
‘Stephen of Sawley's Speculum Novitii and Cistercian Uses of Memory', Cistercian Studies Quarterly 35:1 (2000), 1-15.
Areas of Research & Supervision
medieval history; cultural history; history and memory