Medieval & Early Modern GroupAndrea Knox
MPhil, BA, DipEdSenior Lecturer in History (0.5)
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Contact details: School of Arts & Social Sciences Northumbria University Lipman Building, room 330 Newcastle upon Tyne NE1 8ST phone: +44 (0) 191 227 3193 fax: +44 (0) 191 227 3696 andrea.knox@northumbria.ac.uk |
Biography
Andrea Knox is Senior Lecturer (0.5) in History and Women’s History and was appointed in 1994. Previously she taught on the B.Ed. History and Geography degree at Coach Lane, and part-time at the University of Newcastle and Sunderland Polytechnic. She also worked in adult education for NACRO. Andrea is currently writing a book about Irish women who were political and religious migrants and their activities in early modern Spain.
Qualifications
M.Phil, Northumbria University, 2000
Teaching Diploma in Further and Adult Education, Newcastle College 1987
BA, Newcastle upon Tyne Polytechnic, 1986
Teaching Interests
Teaching interests include: early modern Europe, women’s and gender history in the period 1400-1800, female committed crime, rebellion and subversion, criminal networks in the early modern period, Irish and Scottish women and their rebellious and criminal networks, Irish women migrants in Spain during the sixteenth to the eighteenth centuries, Irish female religious including nuns and their lay patrons and their educational and medical foundations, the history of early modern girls’ schools, Irish female medical orders, and Irish-Spanish commercial, religious and political links. Also taught are new level 6 modules covering female crimes of husband killing and infanticide, as well as theft, witchcraft and spoken crimes such as defamation. Modern history teaching includes an option covering modern women’s history from 1850 to the present.
Specialist modules taught:
HI 0509 The Female Experience in pre-Industrial Europe
HI 0512 Women’s History since 1850
HI 0609 Women, Crime and Subversion in early modern Europe 1
HI 0616 Women, Crime and Subversion in early modern Europe 2
Research Interests
Andrea is currently researching early modern Irish women migrants in Spain and Portugal, rebel networks developed between Scottish and Irish women, female espionage throughout the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, particularly as part of the Mediterranean catholic network, and cultural matronage in early modern Spain. In addition, Andrea is also researching and writing about early modern Irish female religious, their secular sponsors, and their roles in the advocacy and provision of educational institutions for girls and women throughout the Iberian peninsular in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries.
Andrea recently won the Delno C. West senior scholar prize for best conference paper, awarded by the Rocky Mountain Medieval and Renaissance Association, for her paper entitled ‘The Convent as Cultural Conduit: Irish Matronage in Early Modern Spain.’
Research Students
Andrea welcome inquiries from prospective post graduate research students in areas of her research expertise, including sixteenth to eighteenth century gender, crime, subversion and rebellion, Irish female migration, and female criminal networks.
Affiliations and Memberships
The History of Women Religious of Britain and Ireland
The Scottish Women’s History Network
Publications
Chapters and Articles:
‘The Convent as Cultural Conduit: Irish Matronage in Early Modern Spain’, Quidditas. The Journal of the Rocky Mountain Medieval and Renaissance Association, 30 (2009) pp. 128-140. [winner of the Delno C. West senior scholar prize].
'"Women of the Wild Geese": Irish Women, Exile and Identity in Spain, 1750-1775', Immigrants & Minorities, 23, 2-3 (2005).
'Testimonies to history: reassessing women’s involvement in the 1641 rising', in L. Ryan & M. Ward (eds.), Irish Women and Nationalism: Soldiers, New Women and Wicked Hags (Irish Academic Press, 2004).
'"Barbarous and Pestiferous Women": Female Criminality, Violence and Aggression in Sixteenth and Seventeenth-Century Scotland and Ireland', in Y. G. Brown & R. Fergusen (eds.), Twisted Sisters: Women, Crime and Deviance in Scotland since 1400 (Tuckwell Press, 2002).
'Female Criminality and Subversion in Early Modern Ireland', Journal of Criminal Justice History, 17 (2000).
Other:
Entries on Lady Agnes Campbell and Fionnuala O’Donnell, in E. Ewan, S. Innes, S. Reynolds & R. Pipes (eds.), The Biographical Dictionary of Scottish Women (Edinburgh University Press, 2006).
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