Sharon started following the work of Robert Carr, University of Wollongong, School of History and Politics.
Sharon started following the work of 2 people.
Sharon started following the work of Victoria Haskins, University of Newcastle, School of Humanities and Social Sciences.
Sharon Is soon heading off to the Australian Women's History Network symposium in Launceston to give a paper on the Australian New Woman's nationalist utopian visions
Faculty Member, School of History and Politics
Lecturer in History (Britain & Settler Societies)
About
Sharon is an historian working at the intersection between emotions history, a history of femininities and feminism and a study of nationalism and imperialism at the end of the nineteenth- and beginning of the twentieth century. In particular, her current research focuses on Irish, British and Australian print culture and the degree to which these forms of print affected and were affected by newly emerging forms of feminism and nationalism. She has published on gender and empire (for which she was recently awarded the Mary Bennett Prize for the best article in women’s history by an ECR in Australia), the emotional lives of ‘ordinary’ middle-class British women, the controversial fin-de-siècle feminist icon, the New Woman, and emotions history and historiography.
After obtaining her PhD from Flinders University and undertaking teaching and research there, Sharon worked as a Consultant Historian for the Children in State Care Commission of Inquiry (SA) and then she joined the School of History and Politics at The University of Adelaide as both a Visiting Research Fellow and a member of an Australian Learning and Teaching Council project evaluating the usefulness of Second LifeTM (virtual reality) in Australian Humanities teaching and Learning. From here she joined the Alfred Deakin Research Institute.
The Alfred Deakin postdoctoral research project that she is currently working on investigates how increasingly potent fin-de-siècle notions of feminism, nationalism and imperialism affected representations of femininities in the print culture of Australia, Britain and Ireland amid newly emerging nationalisms and shifting understandings of imperialism, colonialism and national identity. Using the insights of ‘forgotten’ women writers of mixed ethnicity, this transnational project explores the interconnectedness between first-wave feminists in a society with a newly emerging federal identity, Australia, and those in a society experiencing a renewed push for national recognition based on ethnonationalist lines, Ireland, while also examining women in the British metropole who were under increasing pressure to conform to an imperial feminine ideal because of their perceived role as guardians of the British Empire.
