Joanna Cruickshank, Lecturer, School of History Heritage and Society, Deakin University.
Joanna Cruickshank lectures in Australian, Pacific and World History. Her research focuses on the role of religion in British and Australian history, from the eighteenth to twentieth centuries. She has published on the culture of early English evangelicalism, eighteenth- and nineteenth-century women preachers and Aboriginal missions. Joanna is currently working on the history of Aboriginal missions in Australia, with a particular focus on gender. She also continues to research and publish on women in early Methodist history. Her publications include:
Joanna Cruickshank and Patricia Grimshaw, ‘“A Matter of No Small Importance to the Colony’: Moravian Missionaries on Cape York Peninsula, Queensland, 1891-1919’ in Missionaries, Indigenous People and Cultural Exchange, ed. Andrew Brown-May and Patricia Grimshaw (Brighton: Sussex Academic Press, 2010), 151-165.
Pain, Passion and Faith: Revisiting the Place of Charles Wesley in Early Methodism (Lanham, MD: Scarecrow Press, 2009).
‘“Friend of my Soul”: Constructing Spiritual Friendship in the Autobiography of Mary Fletcher’, Journal of Eighteenth-Century Studies 32, 3 (2009), 373-387.
“‘The Suffering Members Sympathise’: Constructing the Sympathetic Self in the Hymns of Charles Wesley’ in Charles Wesley: Life, Literature and Legacy,ed. Ted A. Campbell and Kenneth Newport (Epworth Press, 2007), 245-263.
‘“Appear as Crucified for Me”: Sight, Suffering and Spiritual Transformation in the Hymns of Charles Wesley’, Journal of Religious History 30, 3 (2006): 311-330.
In 2010 Dr Cruickshank was on ABC Radio's Spirit of Things programme in Australia talking about 'Suffering in Charles Wesley's Hymns' - here is a link to the podcast
http://www.abc.net.au/rn/spiritofthings/stories/2010/2929508.htm
