Andrew Dunning is the Supernumerary Fellow in Book History at Jesus College, and R.W. Hunt Curator of Medieval Manuscripts at the Bodleian Library. His research interests include the examination of manuscript evidence for collaboration between textual communities in medieval Europe, as viewed through book production, performance, and ownership, and the digital editing and reconstruction of primary sources.
Alexandra Gajda is the John Walsh Fellow and Associate Professor of History at Jesus College. Her work focuses on the political, religious and intellectual life of the sixteenth and early seventeenth century, with her current research centred on the relationship between the religious and constitutional history of the Reformation period. Alexandra is also a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society.
Jenyth Evans is currently studying for her DPhil in English at St Edmund Hall, having completed her BA and MSt at Jesus College. Her research looks at pseudo-histories in Medieval Ireland and Wales, and how their cultural authority was adapted, co-opted, and transformed into the Early Modern period. Her focus is specifically on Geoffrey of Monmouth's De Gestis Britonum ('On the Deeds of the Britons') and the Irish Lebor Gabála Érenn ('The Book of the Takings of Ireland'). She is supervised by Dr Mark Williams.
Felicity Brown is in the third year of her DPhil in English at Jesus College. Her research is on the adaptation and reception of Arthurian romance in Early Modern drama, and she is supervised by Professor Laura Ashe and Professor Paulina Kewes.
Date: Saturday 27 March 2021
Time: 11AM - 12:30PM and 2:00 - 3:30PM GMT
Location: Zoom. Joining instructions will be sent to registered attendees following the registration deadline on Thursday 25 March.
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