Dr. Sebastian Sobecki

Biography

Sebastian Sobecki is a Professor of Medieval English Literature at the University of Toronto, St. George, with a cross-appointment in the Centre for Medieval Studies. He is a Fellow of the English Association and the Royal Historical Society and has held fellowships at prestigious institutions including Souls College, Oxford, Harvard University, Huntington Library, Magdalen College, Oxford, and Yale University. Sobecki has received various research grants from agencies such as the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada, the British Academy, and the German Research Foundation. He has active board memberships with Index of Middle English Prose and the Journal of Early Book Society. His research focuses on late medieval and early modern literature with particular interests in law, travel, authorship, and literary culture in London during the long fifteenth century. Sobecki’s work extensively covers manuscripts and palaeography, and he co-edits a book series with Oxford University Press. His essays and research have been widely published and reported in notable presses such as BBC and The Guardian. He is currently working on projects involving a database of female travellers in medieval and early modern Eurasia and combines machine learning with traditional palaeography in his insights into literary production during 1377-1471.

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