CONVENOR ARC NETWORK FOR EARLY EUROPEAN RESEARCH AND RESEARCH FELLOW (HON) ENGLISH AND COMMUNICATION STUDIES, THE UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA
Dr Scott's work on the theme of poverty as represented in Middle English literature has led her to look beyond the texts and to consider the visual environment of the culture within which the texts were written. This, in turn, has unearthed images of poverty and the poor in churches, on civic buildings, and in manuscripts.
Dr Scott shares with the Resource Unit a knowledge of medieval languages: Old and Middle English, Latin and Anglo-Norman, and an understanding, as a literary scholar, of how to approach texts. She also contributes a wide-ranging knowledge of thirteenth and fourteenth-century English literature, and familiarity with the ever-burgeoning studies in the formation and dissemination of literary manuscripts, particularly of the later fourteenth-and early fifteenth centuries.

Work in Progress
~ Old Age and poverty as exemplified in Thomas Hoccleve's The Regement of Princes
~ The education of the medieval English laity, particularly as evidenced in Robert Mannyng's Handlyng Synne
~ The iconography of poverty in manuscript and church ornament

Select Publications

Books

• Piers Plowman and the Poor, Dublin: The Four Courts Press,
  March 2004

Recent Publications and in Press

• 'Thomas Hoccleve's Selves Apart' in Early Modern Autobiography: Theories, Genres, Practices, edited by Ronald Bedford, Lloyd Davis and Philippa Kelly, Kalamazoo: University of Michigan Press 2006.
• " "Nevere noon so nedy ne poverer deide": Piers Plowman and the value of poverty', Yearbook of Langland Studies, 15, (2001).
• 'Discourses of Kingship in Measure for Measure and the Works of James I', in Parergon, n.s. 15, 2 (1998), 71-93.

Editorial Work
Co-Editor of Parergon, the journal of the Australian and New Zealand Association for Medieval and Early Modern Studies