Carol is an award-winning writer, humanities professor and performance artist living in the Washington DC area. Carol’s work is aimed at ending gender oppression. Carol’s first full length play with music, Chicks In Heaven, received a sixteen-show production as part of Bold New Voices Initiative at the Creative Cauldron in Falls Church, VA (April 2024). All music was written by Carol and her husband, award winning songwriter, David Graziano. Their band, Favorite Child, plays regularly in the DMV. Last year Carol published a new satirical work in collaboration with her colleague, Domnica Radulescu, a new stage play in one-act, Sappho’s Garden. It is now available for production and can be accessed through No Passport Press. A reading of Sappho’s Garden will be presented at the Drama Bookshop in NYC Fall 2025. A book launch of Carol’s newest historical fiction, The Rebel Rose debuted in May 2024 by Rebel Satori Press. Kirkus Reviews says it is “Beautifully written and charmingly relatable”.
Abstract
Abstract
Most discussions about the Scottish witch trials have been shrouded in a category of superstition, primarily from historians postulating from the era of the Enlightenment one hundred years afterward. Some have distanced themselves from the witch hunts by universalizing the cases within a monolithic framework. But the data shows that the Scottish witch “panic” was disproportionately more intense than other hunts in Early Modern Europe and England.
In the last generation, however, scholars utilizing interdisciplinary approaches have revisited trial records and their supporting documents- such as confessions and testimonies - which appear to reveal more than just trial outcomes. Applying perspectives like narratology and feminist studies has given modern researchers increased access to the mentality and emotions of the peasant population most affected by the witch phenomenon. Such insight provides us with distinct voices we can find by reading between the lines from the original sources of five hundred years ago.
Recommended Citation
Campbell, C. L.
(2026).
Old Crimes, New Eyes: Recent Findings from the Scottish Witch Hunts.
Inquiry: The Journal of the Virginia Community Colleges,
29
(1).
Retrieved from https://commons.vccs.edu/inquiry/vol29/iss1/12
