Sub Warden, Wadham College
Fellow and Tutor in Modern History, Wadham College

Department Information
Faculty of History
http://www.history.ox.ac.uk/index.htm

Tel:       01865 277936
Email:   jane.garnett@wadh.ox.ac.uk


Research interests:
My research is on intellectual, cultural and religious history, predominantly of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, including the study of gender and visual culture extending over wider periods.  I was Consultant Editor for Women on the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (1994-2004), as well as acting as Associate Editor for Victorian Women Philanthropists.   I have a long-standing interest in the history of economic and social ethics.

Courses taught:
British and some non-British history from the eighteenth century onwards.   I have also supervised a wide range of graduate work in the Faculties of History (including History of Art) and Theology, and also for the interdisciplinary MSt in Women’s Studies.

Current projects:
I am currently completing a co-authored book (with Gervase Rosser) on cults of miracle-working images in Italy and the Mediterranean and Atlantic worlds from 1500 to the present, and am starting a project (with Alana Harris) on interfaith/intercultural communities in contemporary East London. 

Selected Recent Publications:

`The Gospel of Work and the Virgin Mary: Catholics, Protestants and Work in Nineteenth-century Europe', The Use and Abuse of Time in Christian History, Studies in Church History ed. R.N. Swanson (2002)

`The Nineteenth Century' in Christianity: Two Thousand Years ed. R. Harries, H. Mayr-Harting (Oxford, 2001)

`Whose Logic?  Reflections on Gender in the History of Ideas', History of European Ideas 28 (2002)

'Protestant Histories: James Anthony Froude, Partisanship and National Identity', Politics and Culture in Victorian Britain. Essays in Memory of Colin Matthew ed. Peter Ghosh and Lawrence Goldman (OUP, 2006)

ed, with introduction and textual apparatus, for Oxford World’s Classics, Culture and Anarchy by Matthew Arnold (Oxford, 2006)

(with Matthew Grimley, Alana Harris, William Whyte and Sarah Williams), Redefining Christian Britain: Post-1945 Perspectives (SCM 2007)

(co-edited with introduction, with Maria Rita Cifarelli), Nation(s) and Cultural Heritage: Textus 2/2007

(with Gervase Rosser)  ‘The Virgin Mary and the People of Liguria: Image and Cult’, in The Church and Mary, Studies in Church History, ed. R.N. Swanson (Woodbridge, Boydell and Brewer, 2004), pp. 280-297

(with Gervase Rosser) ‘Translations of the miraculous: cult images and their representations in Early Modern Liguria’, in Erik Thunø and Gerhard Wolf, eds., The Miraculous Image in the Late Middle Ages and Renaissance (Rome: “L’Erma” di Bretschneider, 2004), pp. 205-22

Exhibitions, co-curated with Gervase Rosser:

Miracoli dell’immagine sacra  An exhibition of photographs taken by the authors held at the church of Santa Maria di Castello, Genoa, September 2003-January 2004

Spectacular Miracles: Images of Supernatural Power from Northwest Italy  An exhibition of photographs taken by the authors held at the Ashmolean Museum, October 2005-January 2006.