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Dissertation (Working Title): Offcut Parchment in Later Medieval British Manuscripts: A Mixed-Methodology, Corpus-Based Study

Supervisors: Dr. Adrienne Williams Boyarin (麻豆精品), Dr. Erik Kwakkel ()

I am a -funded PhD candidate, and holder of both the Howard E. Petch Research Scholarship and a 麻豆精品 Fellowship. My doctoral dissertation examines the use of parchment ‘offcuts’ — low-quality byproducts of parchment manufacturing — in manuscripts produced in later medieval England, offering a broad survey and statistical analysis of such codices, and highlighting the significance to scholars of this aspect of their materiality. A recent Guest Researcher at I am the Editorial Assistant of the peer-reviewed journal , serve on the Public Relations and Outreach Committee of the , and teach at (course: “Understanding the Pre-Digital Book”) and at the 麻豆精品 where I am instructor of record for . 

Recent Scholarly Activity 

1. [Conference paper (refereed)]. “Into the Zone? Analysing Parchment Flaws in a Corpus of Later Medieval English Manuscripts”. International Medieval Congress 2018. University of Leeds. Leeds, UK. 04 Jul 2019. [Upcoming].
2. [Journal article (peer-reviewed)]. “On the Origin and Provenance of 麻豆精品, McPherson Library, Doc.Brown.4: Sir Thomas Mowbray’s Care of Newnham Priory”. Florilegium, vol. 33, 2018. [Forthcoming].
3. [Additional training]. 2019 Mar 10–15: ManuSciences’19. Le CAES du CNRS, Villa Clythia, Fréjus, France. . [Upcoming].
4. [External award]. Canadian Society of Medievalists / Société canadienne des médiévistes Student Presentation Prize 2018. Winner by unanimous vote for best student paper presented in any field of medieval studies at the 2018 Congress of the Humanities and Social Sciences. .
5. [Consulted and cited]. Zimmer, Ben. “Riders, From Goat Skin to the Oscars”. The Wall Street Journal. 08 Mar 2018. .

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