Julia McClure
Thesis Title: Inventing New Worlds: A Franciscan Perspective
Start Year: 2009
Email: j.mcclure@sheffield.ac.uk
| Supervisors |
Primary: Prof. Martial Staub | Secondary: Prof. Anthony Milton
| Research Topic |
In my current research, I am exploring the "exilic" and "translocal" dimensions of Franciscan identity in order to gain a perspective on the influence of the Franciscans on the discourse of property and rights. This project is located in the Atlantic world of the late Middle Ages (1300-1550). This context is significant as it was a time when the discourse of the "New World" emerged, and many facets of colonialism were engineered.
I research the intellectual history of the late Middle Ages, but I am also interested in post-colonial and anti-colonial theory. I am particularly interested in the ideas of Latin American scholars, and contemporary Latin American political identities.
| Academic Background |
- MA (distinction), Medieval History, University of Sheffield.
- BA (First Class), History, University of Sheffield.
Publications
A Franciscan Reflection on Exile, available at http://trackchanges.group.shef.ac.uk/content/latest_issue.html.
| Conference Papers |
- Transcending the state: the case of the translocal Franciscans, University of Oxford, December 2011
- Atlantic mythologies / colonial identities: Exploring the relationship between Modernity, the Middle Ages and the New World, University of Sheffield, November 2011
- The Franciscans and the anxieties of discourse, Kings College London, May 2011. Listen to the Podcast.
- Franciscan "translocality" and the discourse of the New World, Harvard, USA, March 2011
- Exile, Property, Right, and the Franciscan Order, ZMO, Berlin, July 2010
- Using the Franciscans to write a 'hidden history' of property and right within the invention of the early Atlantic world (1300-1550), University of Sheffield, June 2010
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Teaching |
Deputy Course Convenor for HST114, Pagans, Christians and Heretics in Medieval Europe.
| Other Information |
Received the David Luscombe Prize in Medieval History, 2007.
| Other Work |
I am currently working on a discussion group entitled 'Global Visions: networks, identities and interactions'. This group aims to generate a productive intellectual discourse by discussing methodology and challenging Eurocentrism and periodisation.