'Susan Broomhall is Winthrop Professor of History in the School of Humanities at The University of Western Australia. She has achieved widespread international recognition for her innovative scholarship in the field of women and gender in early modern France and the Low Countries. Her books on women in the book trade, in medical knowledge and practice, in religion, and in historiography, heritage and tourism brought a feminist analysis to these cultural innovations of the sixteenth century. She has a continuing interest in early modern women’s writings and has published several modern editions of sixteenth-century Frenchwomen’s prose. More recently her work has expanded to include fields such as families and households, poverty and social welfare, policing, police courts, and masculinity. She is a Chief Investigator in the ARC Centre of Excellence for the History of Emotions, of which she was the Acting Director in 2011. In this role, she researches the relationship of medieval and early modern emotions and objects, with a particular focus on European encounters in the Indian Ocean, Asia and Australia.
'Her publications include Early Modern Women in the Low Countries: Feminising Sources and Interpretations of the Past (2011, with Jennifer Spinks); Emotions in the Household, 1200-1900 (2007, editor); Women and Religion in Sixteenth-Century France (2005); Women’s Medical Work in Early Modern France (2004); and Women and the Book Trade in Sixteenth-Century France (2002).' (Source: The Australian Academy of the Humanities website)
