Dr Joanne McEwan

BA Hons (UWA); PhD (UWA)

Ph: (61 8) 6488 2186
Fax: (61 8) 6488 1069
Rm: 1.34, Arts Building
Email: joanne.mcewan@uwa.edu.au

Position

Research Associate

Research Interests

Seventeenth, eighteenth and ninteenth-century British social history; gender history; crime and punishment; social participation in crime and legal processes; representations of female criminality; early modern women’s experiences and support networks; constructions of truth, identity and support in legal narratives; the Elizabeth Canning case; social interaction in family, household, neighbourhood and community contexts; uses and boundaries of household spaces; early modern representations of female sexuality, especially in the work of Artemisia Gentileschi (1593-1653).

Recent and Forthcoming Publications

Books and Book Chapters

Joanne McEwan & Pamela Sharpe (eds), Accommodating Poverty: The Housing and Living Arrangements of the English Poor, 1600-1850, (Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, forthcoming).

Joanne McEwan, ‘The Lodging Exchange: Space, Authority & Knowledge in Eighteenth-Century London’ in Joanne McEwan & Pamela Sharpe (eds), Accommodating Poverty: The Housing and Living Arrangements of the English Poor, 1600-1850, (Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, forthcoming).

Journals and Journal Articles

Joanne McEwan & Pamela Sharpe, ‘“It buys me freedom”: Genteel Lodging in Late Seventeenth- and Eighteenth-Century London’, Parergon, 24:2 (2007), pp.139-161.

Current research

‘Women, Networks, Crime: Negotiating Support in Eighteenth-Century London’.

‘Two sides to any story: Truth and reputation in the Elizabeth Canning case’.
Research Associate for:

‘Gender and Police Courts in Nineteenth-Century Scotland’. Team leaders: David G. Barrie and Susan Broomhall (UWA), Associated researchers: Joanne McEwan (UWA) and Iain Hutchison (Stirling).

‘Articulating Lifelong Learning in Tourism Education: Dialogue between Humanities Scholars and Travel Providers’, Australian Learning and Teaching Council Competitive Grant, 2007-9. Team leaders: Susan Broomhall (UWA), Tim Pitman (Curtin/UWA), Associated researchers: Elzbieta Majocha (UWA), Joanne McEwan (UWA).