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Academic Qualifications
- Ph. D. (Religious Studies/History, La Trobe University]. Thesis
Title: The secret garden: the meaning and function of the hortus
conclusus in Ambrose of Milan's homilies on virginity.
- 1991 M. Theol. (Melbourne College of Divinity). Thesis Title:
Augustine's theology of woman: influences and implications.
- 1985 B. Theol. (Yarra Theological Union).
- 1963 B. A. (University of Melbourne).
Awards and honours
- 1997-8 Fulbright Scholar in residence at Notre Dame College of
Maryland. Sponsored by Australian Catholic University and Notre Dame College of
Maryland.
- 1994 La Trobe University Grant-in-aid for overseas research in
Semester 1.
- 4 Australian Post-Graduate Research Award for Doctoral studies at La
Trobe University, Bundoora, Victoria.
- 1991 Charles Joseph La Trobe Design for Living Award - Citation for
Certificate of Merit in the Promotion of Ideas Category, for Speaking of
housing . . . A report to the Minister for the Department of Planning and
Housing. Joint author with Linda Barclay, Llywellan Johns and Pauline
Kennedy.
- 1984 The Presidents' Prize: Yarra Theological Union. Awarded to the
top student of the graduating class.
- 1959 Commonwealth Scholarship for Bachelor of Arts Degree, University
of Melbourne, 1959-1961.
Invited lectures
- Virgina Geiger Memorial Lecture on Ethics and Culture: Ethics
after the Death of God (May 12th).
- 1997 Junior Charles Strong Memorial Lecturer: Heavenly Bodies? The
Ambiguity of the Body in Religious Discourse and Practice (July).
- 1996 Keynote Speaker, Ordination of Catholic Women Conference, The
Bishop, the Bride and Ordinatio sacerdotalis.
Additional professional development 1978-1998
- 1998 “The animal: I am:” Seminar with Jacques
Derrida, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD.
- 1997 Teaching Early European Women, University of Maryland,
College Park.
- 1992-3 Language and reading courses in German and Italian. LaTrobe
Language Centre, LaTrobe University, Bundoora 3083, Victoria, Australia.
Experience 1986-1999
- Honorary Research Fellow in the Department of History, La Trobe
University, Bundoora, 3083, Australia.
- Sessional tutor and lecturer, Department of History, LaTrobe
University. Semester 1: H2/3: Jesus: Fact or Fiction; Semester 2: H2/3:
Antiquity, Gender and Religion
- Part-time Research Associate (.2), Monash University, Clayton,
Australia.
- 1997-1998 Fulbright Scholar-in-residence at Notre Dame of
Maryland. Undergraduate courses developed and taught:
Fall 97:
D/CPhl403: Topics in Feminist Philosophy. The Philosophy of Women and
Religion in the Medieval Era.
Winterim 98: WPHL402: Great
Philosophical Figures: Saint Augustine
Spring 98: D/CRSt401:
Feminist Theology: Contemporary Issues and Perspectives.
- Ecumenical Institute, St. Mary’s Seminary
Occasional lecture, “Medieval Women,” for the Graduate course in
Medieval Studies, Fall, 1997.
- Renaissance Institute Man, Woman and God(s) 6-week
course, Spring 1998.
- Mt St. Agnes Theological Center Discussion Group on Veiled
Desire: Augustine on Women 6 week program, 1998.
- 1991-1997 Full time doctoral candidate in Religious
Studies/History at La Trobe University, Bundoora 3083, Australia.
- 1989-1994 Guest lecturer at various universities: (1994)
Lecturer, La Trobe University Language Centre: Summer school, Latin 1;
(1993) Tutor, La Trobe University. Semester 1, Latin IA and Monash
University, Masters course work unit, “Feminist Hermeneutics,” in
The Authority of the Text; “Feminist Theology,” (1991-2)
Monash University undergraduate course Judaism, Christianity and Islam;
(1990-1994) Guest Lecturer, “Philosophic and Theological World Views and
Their Influence on the Status of Women,” Women in Management
Course. Hawthorn Institute, Vic; (1989-90) Women and the Church.
Yarra Theological Union.
- 1990-1991 Community Development Researcher: Women in
Supportive Housing. Coordination and implementation of consultancy funded
by the Ministerial Advisory Committee on Women and Housing, to research women's
experience of housing in order to inform government policy. Report published
as, Speaking of Housing . . . A Report to the Minister for the Department of
Planning and Housing, March 1991.
- 1985-1990 Post-graduate (part-time) enrolled for Masters
Degree by research with the Melbourne College of Divinity.
Publications
- Forthcoming “The Body of Matter or the Matter with Bodies?
Christian Attitudes to the Body,” in Sex. Ed. Dr. Carl Wood (Hill
of Content).
- 1999 “Augustine’s family,” The Augustine
Encyclopaedia, Villanova: Villanova Press.
- “Concubinage,” The Augustine Encyclopaedia,
Villanova: Villanova Press.
- 1998 “Ambrose of Milan: Keeper of the Boundaries,”
Theology Today 55. 1 April: 15–34.
- 1998 “Philosophy, Medicine and Gender in the Ascetic Texts of
Ambrose of Milan,” Ancient History in a Modern University Vol. 2.
Proceedings of Conference of the same name in honor of Edwin Judge. Eds, T. W.
Hillard, R. A. Kearsley, C. E. V. Nixon, and A. M. Nobbs. Grand Rapids,
Michigan: William B. Eerdmans: 821-32.
- 1997 Heavenly Bodies: The Ambiguity of the Body in Religious
Discourse and Practice, Adelaide, Charles Strong Trust.
- 1997 “The Rehabilitation of Eve in the De institutione
uirginis of Ambrose of Milan,” Religion in the Ancient World: New
Themes and Approaches. Proceedings of Conference of the same name. Ed.
Matthew Dillon, Amsterdam: Adolph Hakkert: 367-82.
- 1995-6 Veiled Desire: Augustine’s Writing on Women.
London: Darton, Longman and Todd, 1995; New York: Continuum Press, 1996.
- 1995 “Body and Gender in the Fathers of the Church,”
Hildegard of Bingen and Gendered Theology in the Judeo-Christian
Tradition. Eds, Julie S. Barton and Constant Mews. Monash: Institute for
the Study of Religion and Theology (1995): 41-62.
- 1994 “Of Godly Men and Medicine: Ancient Biology and the
Christian Fathers on the Nature of Woman,” Woman-Church. 15 Spring
(1994): 26-33.
- 1993 “‘Sed Unum Tamen…’ Augustine and his
Concubine,” Augustinian Studies. 24 Fall (1993): 49-76. Paper
presented at North American Patristic Society, May 1992.
- 1991 “ ‘To Love More Ardently’: Augustine on
Virginitas,” Tjurunga: the Australian Benedictine Review. 41
September (1991): 12-60.
- 1990 “Augustine and the Feminine as the Image of God,”
St Augustine: The Man Who Made the West. Eds, Mark Garner and
John Martin Melbourne: Proceedings of The Man Who Made the West.
Department of Germanic Studies and Russian, University of Melbourne: 22-33.
Conference Papers
- 1999 “The Sword of the Word: An Aspect of Mystical Marriage in
Ambrose of Milan,” Oxford Patristic Conference, August. (Submitted
for publication).
- “Drawn by Love: The Ascent of the Soul in Ambrose of
Milan’s Homilies on Virginity,” Prayer and Spirituality in the
Early Church II, Sydney, January.
- 1998 “Ambrose's Hortus Conclusus and the Transmission of
Classical Culture,” North American Patristic Society, Loyola
University, Chicago, May.
- AutonumStart“Man, Woman and the Image of God,” Baltimore
and Region Theological Scholars Association, Notre Dame, April.
- 1996 “From the garden of Priapus to Paradise regained,”
Prayer and Spirituality in the Early Church I, sponsored by Australian
Catholic University at Melbourne University, July.
- 1995 “Body and Gender in the Latin Fathers,” History
Institute Post-Graduate Conference, Carlton, November.
- 1995 “ ‘A garden Enclosed’: Ambrose and the Virgin
Bride,” Oxford Patristics Conference, August.
- 1995 “The Bishop, the Bride and Ordinatio
sacerdotalis,” Australian Catholic Theological Association
Conference, Manly, July.
- 1994 “The [Un]gendered Body in the Hexameron of Ambrose
of Milan” ANZATS/AASR Conference, Adelaide, July.
- 1994 “‘A Fortified City… a City Besieged’:
Ambrose of Milan’s Symbolic Treatment of the Body in Book 6 of the
Hexameron,” North American Patristic Society Conference.
Chicago, May.
- 1993 “The Construction of Sexuality and the Fathers of the
Church,” Facets of Christian feminism, St.
Hilda’s College, Melbourne, October.
- 1992 “Of godly men and medicine, sexuality and sanctity,”
Victorian Universities’ Medieval and Renaissance seminar, Melbourne
University, October.
- 1992 “Sexuality and sanctity, bodies and boundaries”
International SBL/AAR Conference, Melbourne University, July.
- 1992 “Augustine the Lover,” North American Patristics
Society Meeting, Loyola University, Chicago, May.
- 1991 “Monica: A New Perspective” Foremothers in Faith
Seminar Montague Hall, Xavier College, August.
Non-scholarly publications (Including Book reviews)
- 1998 “Re-imagining Mary at Christmas,” Re-imagining
Newsletter 16. Nov. Re-printed in Communications. Women and the
Australian Church (Vic) Newsletter Dec.
- 1989-1993 Bi-monthly contributor to the Messenger liturgy
supplement. Reflective scriptural commentaries on the Sunday readings
- 1991 “Women, Sex and Sin: A review of The Body and Society:
Men, women and sexual renunciation in early Christianity, by Peter R. L.
Brown, New York: Columbia University Press, 1988”. Eureka Street.
1. 5: 40-42.
- 1991 “Making it Our House” Eureka
Street. 1. 10: 12-13.
- 1991 “Living Water,” Communications. 5. 2: 4.
- 1990 “Patriarchal Theology and the Subordination of Women,”
Communications. 4. 1: 2-4.
- 1988 “The Great Fifty Days,” Renew Liturgy Resource
Booklet. Melbourne: Catholic Pastoral Formation Centre, December (1988):
14-17.
- 1987 “Book Review: The Force of the Feminine: Women and
the Church. Ed. Margaret Ann Franklin, Sydney: Allen & Unwin,
1986,” Melbourne Association of Graduates in Theology Newsletter
(1987).
- 1985 “ 'Religion and Sexism' by R. R. Ruether: a woman's
response,” Compass. 19. Spring (1985): 22-26.
Popular Talks, Seminars and Adult Education
- 1998 “Early Christian Anthropology,” Classical Honor
Society, College of Notre Dame of Baltimore, February.
- 1998 “Who is the Virgin Bride and What Implications Does She
Hold for Women Today?” Continuing Education Alumnae Dinner, College
of Notre Dame of Baltimore, March.
- 1996 “A Changing Church for Changing Times,” Adult
Education Course at St. Martin of Tours Parish, Macleod, July-September.
- “Women in the Early Church.” FCJ sisters, Port Melbourne
Community, 11th September.
- 1995 “ ‘Always a Bride but Never a Wife:’ The
Spirituality of the Virgin Bride in Ambrose of Milan,” Seminar for the
Institute of Spiritual Studies, East Melbourne. Held at Santa Maria
Conference Centre, 28th October.
- 1995-6 “Women and Christianity in Late Antiquity,”
Workshop for VCE Texts and Traditions Unit. Our Lady of Mercy College,
Heidelberg.
- 1992 “Christology,” Training Seminar for Bendigo
Catholic Education Office held at Bright.
- 1990 “The Housing Experiences of Victorian Women,” Joint
Presentation for Women in Supportive Housing, Australian National Foundation
of Women Conference, Canberra, August.
- 1990 “Feminine Images of God in the Judeo-Christian
Tradition,” Feminist Network 1990, Brisbane.
- 1990 “Attitudes to Women,” Workshops for Year 11 Religious
Education Classes. Parade College, Bundoora. Friday, 6th April
- 1990 “Patriarchal World Views and the Theology of Augustine: The
Social Consequences for Women and Relationships,” New Vision for
Women, February 18.
- 1988-9 “God as a Feminine Presence,” Heart of Life
Spirituality Centre, In-service Seminar-workshop for Spiritual Directors,
1989 and for the Clinical Pastoral Education program at Peter McCallum
Hospital.
Professional Memberships
- 1997- American Academy of Religion/Society of Biblical Literature
- 1994- Australian Association for the Study of Religion.
- 1994- Women Scholars in Theology and Religion (Australia)
- 1992- North American Patristic Society.
- 1992- International Association for the Study of Patristics.
- 1991- Australian Catholic Theological Association.
- 1990-1994 Catholic Biblical Association of Australia.
- 1985- Registered Psychologist in the State of Victoria.
Community Involvement
- 1999 Pastoral Leadership Team of the Central Deanery in the
Archdiocese of Melbourne.
- 1995 Post-graduate Committee Member for the first Australian Catholic
University International Conference, Prayer and Spirituality in the Early
Church.
- 1992-3 Religious Studies Post-graduates divisional representative La
Trobe University Post-graduate Association.
- 1991-1992 Member of Women in Supportive Housing Management
Collective.
- 1990-1991 Catholic representative, Victorian Council of Churches:
Commission for the Ecumenical Decade of Churches in solidarity with Women.
- 1988- New Vision for Women, committee member, 1989-1991.
- Women and The Australian Church-Vic. (WATAC), committee
member, 1989-1991.
- 1985-1988 Melbourne Association of Graduates in Theology, committee
member 1985-6; secretary 1987-1988.
- 1980 Host family to AFS scholar.
- 1978- Member of the City of Heidelberg Emergency Housing Group
- 1968-71 Parish Pastoral Council, Macleod.
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