Dr Carmel Davis
Position: Lecturer in English
(contract)
Contact Details
Office: W6A 629
Phone: 61-2-9850 8787
Fax: 61-2-9850 6593
Email: carmel.davis@humn.mq.edu.au
Qualifications
Dip. O.T. (Syd), BA (Hons) (Macq), PhD (Macq)
Research
Medieval literature, culture and social history; medieval medicine; medieval mysticism and, in particular, its relationship to contemporary religion and science; contemporary Australian dance and theatre.
Selected publications
Encyclopaedia entries
'Bruce Dawe' in International Dictionary of Literary Biography:
Australian Writers, 1950-1975. Vol. 289. New York: Bruccoli Clark,
2004. pp. 63-70
Journal Articles
‘Words Beyond Meaning: the language of ascent and the ascent of language in medieval mystical texts.' AUMLA, No. 106: November, 2006. pp.11- 24.
Monographs
Mysticism and Space. Washington : CUA Press (Forthcoming, March, 2008)
Book Reviews
Books Reviews Gosset, Thierry. 'Women Mystics of the Modern Era: an Anthology' in Parergon, Vol. 21, No. 1, January, 2004.
Scott-Macnab, David. A Sporting Lexicon of the Fifteenth Century: The J.B. Treatise, in Parergon, Vol. 21, No. 2 July, 2004.
Scott-Macnab, David. A Sporting Lexicon of the Fifteenth Century: The J.B. Treatise, accepted by Parergon on 1 st March, 2004.
Montford, Angela. ‘Health, Sickness, Medicine and the Friars in the Thirteenth and Fourteenth Centuries.' (History of Medicine in Context) in Parergon, Vol. 22, No. 2, July, 2005.
Non-Print media
‘God in a poynt. what Julian of Norwich knew about modern Science'. Proceeding of the Women Scholars of Religion and Theology Conference. ACU (National), Melbourne, January, 2004. Accepted by Seachanges on 30 th May, 2004.
Articles
Non-academic publications are extensive and include over 20 feature articles and over 30 reviews in Dance Australia magazine, guest columns in The Open Road (NRMA journal) and guest editorial in Ausdance magazine (April, 2001).