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Dr Bronwyn Stocks

Position title

Senior Lecturer, Department of Theory of Art & Design

Qualifications

PhD, Melb

Statement

From 1990 to 1998 Bronwyn tutored and lectured at Melbourne University and RMIT. She joined Monash University in 1999. Her teaching covers a broad range of Western art history & theory from medieval to contemporary as well as architectural and design theory. She coordinates and teaches the theory component of the annual Semester in Prato, at Monash?s Centre in Italy.

Her research interests cover both medieval and contemporary art and design. This sometimes involves a curious kind of time-travel: she can be handling 500 year old manuscripts in a Florentine church archive one day and viewing digital art at the Venice Biennale the next!

Research/Professional activities

Publications

In press: Bronwyn Stocks & Nigel Morganeds. The Medieval Imagination: manuscripts from Cambridge, Australia and New Zealand (Macmillan & State Library of Victoria, 2008)
In press: B. Stocks, “The Adelaide Hours” in Transitus; Six Essays in Codicology ed. James Lowry (Bibliographical Society of Australia and New Zealand, 2008)
B. Stocks, “Text, image and a sequential Sacra Conversazione in Early Italian Books of Hours” Word & Image vol.23, issue 1, 2007, pp.16-24
B. Stocks, “Context and Connection within Medici Art Patronage” Agora vol.42 issue 1, 2007, pp.14-18
B. Stocks, Review: “J. Nevile, The Eloquent Body: Dance and Humanistic Culture in Fifteenth-Century Italy” Parergon vol.24 issue 1, 2007, pp.218-220
As curator: “The facsimile and the Manuscript” exhibition of manuscript facsimiles at the Baillieu Library, University of Melbourne, February 2007
B. Stocks, “The facsimile and the Manuscript” Catalogue essay for exhibition of manuscript facsimiles at the Baillieu Library, University of Melbourne, February 2007
B. Stocks, “The Friars and the development of the Italian book of hours” http://www.neer.arts.uwa.edu.au/neer_conference_2007 on-line publication of conference paper, conference: Networks, Communities, Continuities: Europe 400-1850, UWA July 2007.
B. Stocks, “Posters: in light of recent events” Design Papers 1, 2006
www.elsewhereonline.com.au (An ARC E-Research grant funded data-bank of images and texts for travellers, scholars, writers, and artists. Maintained by Australians Studying Abroad in partnership with a group of Australian universities.) launched 2006
B. Stocks, “Good as Gold” catalogue essay accompanying exhibition of work of Michael Doolan at Brisbane City Gallery January 2003
B. Stocks, “Memory artifacts” catalogue essay accompanying exhibition Remnant Culture Tyra Hutchens Stephen McLaughlan Gallery October 2-19, 2002
Important earlier publication:
"The Illustrated Office of the Passion in Italian Books of Hours" in The Art of the Book: Its Place in Medieval Worship. eds M. Manion & B. Muir (University of Exeter Press, 1998), pp.111-152

Awards

2006 Carrick Australia Awards for University Teaching: Citation for Outstanding Contribution to Student Learning for “Developing and delivering an art history subject incorporating historic sites and original artworks as a pedagogical focus within an overseas study program”.

Grants

ARC E-Research grant recipient 2005-6

Project: A Web-Based Humanities Image Database and Descriptive Catalogue for Academic, Industry and Community Application
Other chief investigators:

Dr Susan Broomhall, School of Humanities (History), University of Western Australia
Dr Richard Pennell, History Department, University of Melbourne

Partner investigator:

Mr Chris Wood, Australians Studying Abroad

Project summary

This research developed a pilot web-based visual database and catalogue with associated, annotatable explanatory text files, that is suitable for input and access by academics, industry and the general community. The catalogue’s information input and search mechanisms will respond to the needs of relevant Humanities disciplines for which image collection and analysis is a critical research tool. Its design aims to encourage user communities to contribute images and text efficiently, effectively and confidently, and guarantees the security of their images through application of a tag system. The collaboratively authored image catalogue will facilitate national and international research projects using visual resources.

NEER Seeding grant 2006

Seeding grant of $10,000 from ARC funded Network for Early European Research to develop research cluster: Manuscript Studies and Early European Research in Australia.
With team including: Prof Emeritus Margaret Manion, University of Melbourne; Prof Stephanie Hollis, Univ of Auckland; Prof Nigel Morgan, Corpus Christi College, Cambridge; Dr Anne Scott, UWA; Prof Rodney Thomson, Univ of Tasmania, Dr Ursula Betka, LaTrobe University; Dr Hilary Maddocks, University of Melbourne; Prof Bernard Muir University of Melbourne; Roza Faunce (Passos) University of Melbourne;

Supervisions

Current Supervisions: (main supervisor unless noted)

Under examination:
Elaine Miles “Volumes in Glass” (joint supervisor with Prof. Bernard Hoffert)

PhD

Peta Clancy “Amorphous bodies / the space between”
Anika Ramholdt “The Zombie & the Parasite: An Analysis of Ingestion”
Deborah Ostrow “Studio as supermedium”
Jo Dane “Aligning Pedagogy and Place in Higher Education: How Student-Centred Learning Environments affect the Student Learning Experience”
Darragh O’Brien “Greyness: architectural theory and decision-making methods in a place of uncertainty” (joint supervisor with Dr Luke Morgan)
Michael Doolan “Dormant time: a studio investigation into the existence of a schism between innocence and fear” (joint supervisor with Dr Chris Headley)

MFA

Lynette Spiller “The body as receptacle” (joint supervisor with Kit Wise)

As of 2008:
MA

Karen Thomas “Beyond the Written Word”
Laura Callingham “Architecture and Fashion at the limits”

Completions