Rate My Professor Jenny Spinks

Spinks' scholarship examines northern Europe between 1450 and 1700, focusing on visual and material culture as sources for understanding print culture, propaganda, grotesque imagery, wonder books, supernatural beliefs, disasters, and prodigies. As team leader of the ARC Discovery Project "Albrecht Dürer’s Material World: In Melbourne, Manchester and Nuremberg," she investigates the material aspects of Dürer's Nemesis engraving, Nuremberg's book culture, and pathways of rare Nuremberg prints and books into Melbourne collections. She has co-curated significant exhibitions: Albrecht Dürer’s Material Renaissance (University of Melbourne, 2024), The Four Horsemen: Apocalypse, Death and Disaster, and global perspectives on magic, witches, and devils at the National Gallery of Victoria (Melbourne) and John Rylands Library (Manchester). Her influential publications include the monograph Monstrous Births and Visual Culture in Sixteenth-Century Germany (2009, paperback 2016), co-edited volumes such as After Luther: Visual Culture, Materiality and the Legacy of 1517, and articles in leading journals including Renaissance Studies, Past & Present, and Art History. Spinks has held prestigious fellowships at the Warburg Institute, Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, ARC Centre of Excellence for the History of Emotions, and Herzog August Bibliothek, enhancing her contributions to the field through international collaborations and public engagement.