Dr Claire Walker

• Appointments

  Date	Position	Institution name
  2010 - ongoing	Senior Lecturer	University of Adelaide, Adelaide
  2008 - 2009	Lecturer	University of Adelaide, Adelaide
  1992 - 2007	Lecturer	The University of Newcastle

• Language Competencies

  Language	Competency
  French	Can read

• Education

  Date	Institution name	Country	Title
  1996	The University of Western Australia	Australia	PhD
  1987	The University of Western Australia	Australia	BA (Hons)

• Research Interests

  British History European History Gender Studies Historical Studies Religion and Society

• Journals

  Year	Citation
  2025	Walker, C., & Howe, G. M. (2025). “huge Great cross”: Catholic Pain Management in Early Modern England. Sixteenth Century Journal: journal of early modern studies.
  2020	Walker, C. (2020). "Hangd for the true faith": embodied devotion in early modern English Carmelite cloisters. Journal of Religious History, 44(4), 494-512. DOI Scopus1 WoS2
  2017	Walker, C. (2017). Governing bodies, family and society: the rhetoric of the passions in the sermons of Samuel Wesley. English Studies, 98(7), 733-746. DOI Scopus1
  2017	Walker, C. I. (2017). The experience of exile in early modern English convents. Parergon, 34(2), 159-177. DOI Scopus2 WoS4
  2016	Walker, C. (2016). Exiled children: Care in English convents in the 17th and 18th centuries. Children Australia, 41(3), 168-177. DOI Scopus3 WoS3
  2012	Walker, C. (2012). Crumbs of news: early modern English nuns and royalist intelligence networks. Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies, 42(3), 635-655. DOI Scopus9 WoS5
  2009	Walker, C. (2009). Going against some forcible wind: Writing and Reform in Medieval and Early Modern Convents. Journal of Womens History, 21(1), 135-144. DOI
  2004	Walker, C. (2004). Clitherow [née Middleton], Margaret [St Margaret Clitherow] (1552/3–1586), Roman Catholic martyr. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. DOI
  2004	Walker, C. (2004). Radcliffe, Margaret [name in religion Margaret Paul] (1582x5–1654), abbess. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. DOI
  2004	Walker, C. (2004). Lawson [née Constable], Dorothy. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. DOI
  2002	Walker, C. (2002). Godliness, Sex and Propaganda: Gender in the Confessional Age. Review of 4 Books. Gender and History, 14(1), 138-142. DOI
  2000	Walker, C. (2000). Prayer, patronage, and political conspiracy: English nuns and the restoration. Historical Journal, 43(1), 1-23. DOI Scopus33
  1999	Walker, C. (1999). Combining Martha and Mary: Gender and Work in Seventeenth-Century English Cloisters. Sixteenth Century Journal, 30(2), 397-418. DOI Scopus19

• Books

  Year	Citation
  2019	Broomhall, S., Davidson, J., Lynch, A., Lemmings, D., Walker, C., & Barclay, K. (Eds.) (2019). A Cultural History of the Emotions in the Baroque and Enlightenment Age (1600-1780) (Vol. 4). London: Bloomsbury Academic. DOI
  2015	Kerr, H., & Walker, C. (Eds.) (2015). 'Fama' and Her Sisters: Gossip and Rumour in Early Modern Europe (1st ed.). Turnhout, Belgium: Brepols Publishers.
  2009	Lemmings, D., & Walker, C. (Eds.) (2009). Moral panics, the media and the law in early modern England. Basingstoke, United Kingdom: Palgrave Macmillan. DOI Scopus35
  2009	Lemmings, D., & Walker, C. (Eds.) (2009). Moral panics, the media and the law in early modern England. Basingstoke, United Kingdom: Palgrave Macmillan. DOI Scopus35
  2006	Walker, C. (Ed.) (2006). Elizabeth Evelinge, III. Australia: Ashgate Publishing Limited.
  2003	Walker, C. (2003). Gender and Politics in Early Modern Europe: English Convents in France and the Low Countries. Basingstoke UK: Palgrave MacMillan.
  -	Broomhall, S. (n.d.). Early Modern Emotions. Routledge. DOI

• Book Chapters

  Year	Citation
  2023	Walker, C. (2023). 'Disengagement from all creatures': Exploring loneliness in early modern english cloisters. In The Routledge History of Loneliness (pp. 193-206). Routledge. DOI
  2023	Walker, C. (2023). Religious Houses: Spirituality. In J. Morrill, & L. Temple (Eds.), The Oxford History of British and Irish Catholicism, Vol II Uncertainty and Change, 1641-1745 (Vol. 2, 1st ed., pp. 152-169). Oxford: Oxford University Press.
  2020	Walker, C. I. (2020). The intellectual world of Catholic piety. In A. L. Capern (Ed.), The Routledge History of Women in Early Modern Europe (1st ed., pp. 238-262). Abingdon, UK and New York, USA: Routledge. DOI Scopus2
  2019	Walker, C. I. (2019). The embodiment of exile: relics and suffering in Early Modern English cloisters. In G. Tarantino, & C. Zika (Eds.), Feeling exclusion: religious conflict, exile and emotions in Early Modern Europe (pp. 81-99). Abingdon, UK and New York, USA: Routledge. DOI Scopus1
  2017	Walker, C. (2017). Monastic communities. In S. Broomhall (Ed.), Early Modern Emotions An Introduction (Vol. n/a, 1st ed., pp. 277-280). London and New York: Routledge. DOI
  2017	Walker, C. (2017). Political ritual and religious devotion in early modern English convents. In M. Bailey, & K. Barclay (Eds.), Emotion, Ritual and Power in Europe, 1200-1920 Family, State and Church (Vol. n/a, 1st ed., pp. 221-239). Cham, Switzerland: Springer. DOI
  2015	Walker, C. (2015). Whispering Fama: Talk and reputation in early modern Europe. In H. Kerr, & C. Walker (Eds.), 'Fama' and her sisters: Gossip and rumour in early modern Europe (1 ed., pp. 9-35). Belgium: Brepols Publishers. DOI
  2015	Walker, C., & Kerr, H. (2015). Introduction: New perspectives on Fama. In H. Kerr, & C. Walker (Eds.), 'Fama' and her sisters: Gossip and rumour in early modern Europe (1 ed., pp. 1-7). Belgium: Brepols Publishers. DOI
  2015	Walker, C. (2015). An ordered cloister? Dissenting passions in early modern English cloisters. In S. Broomhall (Ed.), Gender and Emotions in Medieval and Early Modern Europe: Destroying Order, Structuring Disorder (pp. 197-214). Farnham: Routledge. DOI Scopus1
  2015	Walker, C. (2015). An ordered cloister? dissenting passions in early modern English cloisters. In Gender and Emotions in Medieval and Early Modern Europe: Destroying order, Structuring Disorder (pp. 197-214). Scopus4
  2014	Walker, C. (2014). When god shall restore them to their kingdoms: Nuns, exiled stuarts and english Catholic identity, 1688-1745. In Religion and Women in Britain, C. 1660-1760 (pp. 79-97). Scopus9
  2014	Walker, C. (2014). 'When God shall restore them to their kingdoms': Nuns, exiled Stuarts and English Catholic identity, 1688-1745. In S. Apetrei, & H. Smith (Eds.), Religion and women in Britain, c. 1660-1760 (1 ed., pp. 79-97). United Kingdom: Ashgate Publishing.
  2010	Walker, C. (2010). Continuity and Isolation: The Bridgettines of Syon in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries. In E. Jones, & A. Walsham (Eds.), Syon Abbey and its books reading, writing and religion c.1400-1700 (pp. 155-176). Woodbridge, Suffolk, UK: Boydell Press, the.
  2009	Walker, C. (2009). Remember Justice Godfrey: The popish plot and the construction of panic in Seventeenth-Century media. In D. Lemmings, & C. Walker (Eds.), Moral panics, the media and the law in early modern England (pp. 117-138). Hampshire, England: Palgrave MacMillan. DOI Scopus6
  2009	Walker, C. (2009). Priests Nuns Presses and Prayers: The Southern Netherlands and the Contours of English Catholicism. In B. Kaplan, B. Moore, H. Nierop, & J. Pollmann (Eds.), Catholic Communities in Protestant States: Britain and the Netherlands c. 1570-1720 (pp. 139-155). Manchester: Manchester University Press.
  2008	Walker, C. (2008). Recusants, daughters and sisters in Christ: English nuns and their communities in the seventeenth century. In S. Tarbin, & S. Broomhall (Eds.), Women, Identities and Communitiies in Early Modern Europe (pp. 61-78). United Kingdom: Ashgate Publishing Limited.
  2008	Walker, C. (2008). Securing Souls or telling tales? The politics of cloistered life in an English convent. In C. Wyhe (Ed.), Female Monasticism in Early Modern Europe (pp. 227-244). United Kingdom: Ashgate Publishing Limited. Scopus17
  2006	Walker, C. (2006). Introduction. In B. Travitsky, & A. Prescott (Eds.), The early modern Englishwoman: A facsimile library of essential works (pp. ix-xix). England: Ashgate Publishing Limited. DOI Scopus2
  2004	Walker, C. (2004). Wiseman [née Vaughan], Jane (d. 1610), recusant and priest harbourer. In L. Goldman (Ed.), Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (pp. online-1). Great Britain: Oxford University Press. DOI
  2004	Walker, C. (2004). Radcliffe, Margaret [name in religion Margaret Paul] (1582x5–1654), abbess. In Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (pp. 1 page). Great Britain: Oxford University Press. DOI
  2004	Walker, C. (2004). Lawson [née Constable], Dorothy (1580–1632), recusant and priest harbourer. In D. Cannadine (Ed.), Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (pp. 1 page). Great Britain: Oxford University Press. DOI
  2004	Walker, C. (2004). Clitherow [née Middleton], Margaret [St Margaret Clitherow] (1552/3–1586), Roman Catholic martyr. In Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (pp. 1 page). Great Britain: Oxford University Press. DOI
  2004	Walker, C. (2004). Loyal and dutiful subjects: English nuns and Stuart politics. In James Daybell (Ed.), Women and politics in early modern England, 1450-1700 (pp. 228-242). Aldershot & Burlington: Ashgate Publishing Limited. Scopus9
  2004	Walker, C. (2004). Spiritual Property: The English Benedictine Nuns of Cambrai and the Dispute over the Baker Manuscripts. In N. Wright, M. Ferguson, & A. Buck (Eds.), Women, Property and the Letters of the Law in Early Modern England (pp. 237-255). Toronto: University of Toronto Press Inc.. Scopus17
  2001	Walker, C. (2001). "Doe not suppose me a well mortifyed Nun dead to the world" : Letter Writing in Early Modern English Convents. In Early Modern Women's Letter Writing (pp. 159-176). Bashingstoke: Palgrave MacMillan.

• Conference Papers

  Year	Citation
  2020	Walker, C. (2020). Religious Devotion, Gender and the Body in Europe, 1100–1800. In Journal of Religious History Vol. 44 (pp. 403-406). WILEY. DOI

HIST2053 Medieval Europe from the Crusades to the Black Death

This course explores the lives and experiences of people in western Europe during the Middle Ages. We begin the course in the early Middle Ages with Charlemagne and his successors, and the upheaval caused by Vikings and other invaders. We shall then consider the expansion of European power in the eleventh and twelfth centuries (including the Crusades), and the flourishing of European civilisation and culture, trade and urban life in the twelfth and thirteenth centuries. At the end of the course, we discuss the crisis of medieval civilisation that was brought about by conflicts within the Church, the great struggle between France and England, and the Black Death. Students have the unique opportunity to locate and research medieval objects and examples of medievalism in Adelaide for a virtual 'museum' exhibition.

HIST2069 Heresy and Witchcraft in Medieval Europe

This course explores belief and deviancy in medieval Europe. After identifying religious and cultural orthodoxy, it embarks upon an analysis of dissent. Divergence from sanctioned ideology and ritual ranged from the spiritual and social challenge of medieval heresies, through popular beliefs in the magical powers of people and objects, to the witch hunts of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. Using a wide variety of original documents and historical interpretations, the course aims to understand and explain conflicting belief systems and the rise of intolerance in the pre-modern world.

HIST3037 Early Modern Europe

The sixteenth and seventeenth centuries are often claimed by historians to represent the transition between the medieval and modern worlds. Beginning with the Renaissance and Reformation, the era was characterised by intellectual, religious and political upheaval, which affected all levels of society, not only the elites. Through lectures and tutorials, with particular emphasis on primary documents, students will examine not only the great events of this era, but they will also delve below the surface to discuss the impact of these changes on the lives of ordinary men and women.

HIST4002/HIST7002 The Tudors and their Legacy

The Tudors ruled England and Wales from 1485 to 1603. In 118 years they transformed the historical landscape, enforcing religious change (and conflict), cementing the British Isles military and diplomatic position in Europe and the Atlantic world and encouraging an intellectual and cultural renaissance. Moreover, they provided history with many ‘firsts’ and a succession of colourful monarchs – Mary I was England’s first queen regnant, while Henry VIII and Elizabeth I are two of the best-known sovereigns. In recent years there has been renewed fascination with the Tudors, sparked by historical fiction (Wolf Hall) and TV series (The Tudors). This Honours/Masters course investigates Tudor history, examining the monarchs and the momentous changes taking place during their rule, and unravelling their legacy into the twenty-first century.

• Current Higher Degree by Research Supervision (University of Adelaide)

  Date	Role	Research Topic	Program	Degree Type	Student Load	Student Name
  2024	Principal Supervisor	The Tudor Monarchy's Self-Representation in Early Modern England	Doctor of Philosophy	Doctorate	Full Time	Mr Yannic Bietz
  2023	Principal Supervisor	The Evolution/Role of Chivalry during the Tudor Era (1485-1603)	Doctor of Philosophy	Doctorate	Full Time	Miss Amber Louise Cox
  2023	Principal Supervisor	Painted Ladies: The Representation of Female Rule in the Imagery of Mary Tudor and Mary Stuart	Master of Philosophy	Master	Full Time	Miss Lucy Jasmine King
  2022	Principal Supervisor	Love in Gethsemane: The Consolatory Legacy of Thomas More in the Writings of English Exiles and Martyrs	Doctor of Philosophy	Doctorate	Full Time	Mr Mitchell Robert Thompson
  2022	Principal Supervisor	Marginal Martyrs: Faith, Doubt, and John Foxe, c. 1553-1558	Doctor of Philosophy	Doctorate	Full Time	Miss Grace May Howe
  2020	Principal Supervisor	‘A Floating Home’: The emotional lives of nineteenth-century emigrants voyaging to Australia	Master of Philosophy	Master	Part Time	Miss Emma Laurel Mary Grimes

• Past Higher Degree by Research Supervision (University of Adelaide)

  Date	Role	Research Topic	Program	Degree Type	Student Load	Student Name
  2020 - 2023	Principal Supervisor	“Killing those foul witches”: the witch in fantasy medievalist computer role-play games	Doctor of Philosophy	Doctorate	Full Time	Miss Tess Alana Watterson Dunbar
  2019 - 2024	Principal Supervisor	‘Knot of Love and Concord’: Loyalty in the Life of Mary I	Doctor of Philosophy	Doctorate	Part Time	Miss Meagan Elizabeth Nattrass
  2019 - 2023	Principal Supervisor	Fashion Diplomacy at the Court of Henry VIII	Doctor of Philosophy	Doctorate	Full Time	Mrs Grace Samantha Hickey Waye-Harris
  2019 - 2022	Principal Supervisor	Feeling Heads: Phrenology and Emotion in the United States, 1820-1850	Master of Philosophy	Master	Full Time	Mr Lachlan James McCarron
  2019 - 2023	Principal Supervisor	Antichrist in the Indies: Anti-Catholic Discourse and English responses to Roman Catholic Missions in the Americas and East Asia, c. 1558-1660	Master of Philosophy	Master	Full Time	Mr Alexander Timothy Pring
  2018 - 2022	Co-Supervisor	Romantic and Socio-Sexual Scripts in Eighteenth-Century Britain	Master of Philosophy	Master	Full Time	Miss Lani Gerbi
  2016 - 2019	Principal Supervisor	Epilepsy in the Lunatic Asylums of South Australia (1852 – 1913)	Master of Philosophy	Master	Full Time	Mrs Margaret Boult
  2016 - 2020	Principal Supervisor	Women, Piety, and Patronage in Reformation England, c.1530-1558	Doctor of Philosophy	Doctorate	Full Time	Dr Stephanie Joan Thomson
  2016 - 2020	Principal Supervisor	Mysticism and Emotional transformation in a Seventeenth-Century English Convent	Doctor of Philosophy	Doctorate	Full Time	Miss Jessica McCandless
  2012 - 2015	Principal Supervisor	Dynastic Marriage in England, Castile and Aragon, 11th-16th Centuries	Master of Philosophy	Master	Full Time	Ms Lisa Anne Joseph
  2012 - 2017	Principal Supervisor	A 'Plea of Humanity'? Emotions and the Makings of Lunacy Reform in Britain, c.1770-1820	Doctor of Philosophy	Doctorate	Part Time	Dr Mark Adam Neuendorf
  2011 - 2017	Principal Supervisor	A Dynamic Equilibrium: Doctors and Patients in Seventeenth Century England	Doctor of Philosophy	Doctorate	Part Time	Mrs Elizabeth Connolly
  2011 - 2014	Co-Supervisor	Treason, Passion and Power in England, 1660 - 1685	Doctor of Philosophy	Doctorate	Full Time	Elsa Reuter
  2011 - 2020	Co-Supervisor	Fleecing the Pious: The Palmers' Guild of Ludlow in the Central and North Welsh Marches 1400-1530	Doctor of Philosophy	Doctorate	Part Time	Ms Judith Bailey
  2010 - 2018	Principal Supervisor	'Baptism, No Wall of Division': Seventeenth-Century Particular Baptists and Dynamics of Toleration	Doctor of Philosophy	Doctorate	Part Time	Mr Matthew James Gray

• Committee Memberships

  Date	Role	Committee	Institution	Country
  2024 - ongoing	Member	Society for the History of Emotions Council	International Society	Australia
  2022 - ongoing	Member	4th Biennial Society for the History of Emotions Conference Organising Committee	The University of Adelaide	Australia

• Offices Held

  Date	Office Name	Institution	Country
  2017 - 2017	Acting Director, Adelaide Node, ARC Centre of Excellence for the History of Emotions	ARC CHE and the University of Adelaide	Australia
  2015 - ongoing	Deputy Director, Adelaide Node, ARC Centre of Excellence in the History of Emotions	ARC, CHE and the University of Adelaide	Australia

• Position: Senior Lecturer
• Phone: 83135159
• Email: claire.i.walker@adelaide.edu.au
• Fax: 83135241
• Campus: North Terrace
• Building: Napier, floor 3
• Org Unit: School of Humanities