In Singing the News of Death: Execution Ballads in Europe 1500-1900,...McIlvenna's study makes an important contribution to scholarship about ballads.
Una McIlvenna is Honorary Senior Lecturer at the Australian National University. A literary and cultural historian of early modern Europe, she is also the author of Scandal and Reputation at the Court of Catherine de Medici (2016). She has held positions at the Universities of Melbourne, Sydney, Kent and Queen Mary University of London.