Una McIlvenna, 'Performing the News in Early Modern Europe'

Una McIlvenna is the Hansen Lecturer in History at The University of Melbourne, and a former Postdoctoral Research Fellow with the ARC Centre of Excellence for the History of Emotions. Her research interests lie broadly in the fields of cultural and literary history, as well as in an ongoing project on emotional responses to the use of song and verse in accounts of crime and public execution in early modern Europe. She is the author of Scandal and Reputation at the Court of Catherine de Medici (Routledge, 2016), and she is currently working on a second monograph titled ‘Singing the News of Death: Execution Ballads in Europe, 1550-1900’. This paper, ‘The Emotions of Performing the News in Early Modern Europe’, was delivered at a conference on ‘News Reporting and Emotions’ at The University of Adelaide in September 2017.