Rate My Professor Emily Chambers

Chambers' research specializations include British history, women's history, early modern studies, and political history, particularly the role and agency of early modern elite English women. She has published peer-reviewed book reviews, such as one in the Journal of Early Modern History (2022) on Women's Bookscapes in Early Modern Britain by Julie A. Eckerle and Naomi McAreavey, and a review of Queenship at the Renaissance Courts of Britain: Catherine of Aragon and Margaret Tudor, 1503-1533 by Michelle L. Beer (2020). Her conference presentations include 'The Physicality of Handwriting and Elite Tudor Women's Approaches to Holograph Letters' at the Feathers Conference (2025), 'Protestant Female Martyrs or Heroines in Tudor England' (2024), and contributions to the Perth Medieval and Renaissance Group programme (2025). Chambers serves as School Academic Secretary for the Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences school and co-convenes the ANZAMEMS Reading Group. She delivered the Murdoch Lecture on 'Elite Female Influence in Mid-Tudor England' (2022) and featured in the Royal Studies Podcast discussing Tudor women. In 2024, she received a Dean's commendation from the Murdoch University School of Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences staff awards.