Teaching Experience
October 2010–Present Module Coordinator, Course Tutor, Chair of Staff-Student Liaison Committe, Deputy Chair of Departmental Postgraduate Board of Examiners, MA in Digital Humanities Department of Digital Humanities (formerly Centre for Computing in Humanities), King's College London, U.K.
- Deputy Chair of Departmental Postgraduate Board of Examiners
- Chair of Staff Student Liaison Committee (SSLC, from 2012); carried out substantial review and revision of SSLC Terms of Reference (in 2012)
- Designed, coordinated and co-taught new module, 'Digital Resources for Historical Studies' (from 2011/12).
- Redesigned, coordinating and teaching module 'Material Culture of the Book' (from 2010/11).
- Taught classes 'Digital Representations of Images and Texts' and 'Graphical Representation of Data' in the core module 'Methods and Techniques' (2010).
- First supervisor of MA dissertations.
PhD Students and other Supervision
- Matilda Watson, Scandinavian Manuscript Fragments, c. 1000-1300 AD. <http://www.kcl.ac.uk/artshums/depts/ddh/people/students/watson/> Second supervisor is Dr Lesley Abrams (History; Balliol College Oxford). Commenced in September 2011.
- Debora Matos, Hebrew Book Illumination in Portugal. Cosupervisor with Dr. Andrea Schatz (Dept. Theology and Religious Studies). Commenced in January 2012.
- External Advisor, Alberto Campagnolo, PhD in historical book bindings (Ligatus Unit, University of the Arts London).
- Supervised MA dissertations in Digital Humanities (KCL) and BA dissertations in palaeography (Cambridge).
- Approx. 175 hours of one-on-one or one-on-two undergraduate supervisions in palaeography from 2004–2009 (ASNC).
June 2008–Present Principal Coordinator, COST/AHRC Research Training: 'Medieval Manuscripts in the Digital Age' <http://www.ies.sas.ac.uk/study-training/research-training-courses/medieval-manuscripts-digital-age/medieval-manuscripts-digit> Under the direction of the Institute of English Studies, in collaboration with King's College London, the Warburg Institute, and the Dept. of Anglo-Saxon, Norse, and Celtic, University of Cambridge
- Awarded grants from AHRC and COST to design and run annual six-day training programme for postgraduate students (grants prepared with Prof. Warwick Gould, Prof. Michelle Brown, Prof. Charles Burnett, Dr Hanna Vorholt, Dr Arianna Ciula, Dr Wim van Mierlo, and Jon Millington).
- Received approx. two hundred applications total for the three years to date, along with many enquiries.
- Coordinated specialist instructors from seven institutions in Cambridge and London.
- Designed and implemented course including lectures, visits to libraries, and practical computing sessions (with Dr Hanna Vorholt, Dr Arianna Ciula and Dr Elena Pierazzo).
- Wrote and delivered classes on 'Manuscript-Production', 'Provenance and Bindings', 'Palaeography', 'Digital Imaging', 'Digital Resources, Tools and Projects'.
- Assisted with computer lab exercises on XML markup, TEI for transcription and cataloguing, and digital image-enhancement.
July 2010–Present Module Coordinator, Course Tutor, London Rare Book School and MA in the History of the Book Institute of English Studies, School of Advanced Studies, University of London, U.K.
- Designed, coordinated and taught a week-long intensive course 'Digital Publishing and Book Studies' for the London Rare Book School (LRBS).
- Redesigned, coordinated and taught the same material as an MA module for the History of the Book.
- First marker for both the LRBS and MA courses.
October 2004–Present Associated Lecturer in Palaeography and Codicology (with additional teaching in Medieval Latin) Dept. of Anglo-Saxon, Norse, and Celtic, University of Cambridge, U.K.
- Written and delivered approximately 450 hours of lectures, classes and supervisions on palaeography and medieval Latin.
- Supervised undergraduate dissertations.
- Set and marked examination-papers at BA and MPhil level in Latin and in Palaeography.
Lectures and Classes:
- 'Handwriting in Britain and Ireland, A.D. 400–850', eight lectures each year in 2004 and 2005, four lectures each year in 2006 and 2007
- 'English Script, A.D. 850–1066', eight lectures each in 2005 and 2007
- 'The Scripts of Celtic Britain and Ireland, A.D. 850–1200', eight lectures in 2006
- 'Handwriting in Britain and Ireland, A.D. 850–1200', eight lectures each in 2007/8–2010/11
- 'Libraries and the Survival of Manuscripts, A.D. 1535–1733', eight lectures in 2004
- 'Introduction to Palaeography', and 'Punctuation and Spacing', one lecture each term in 2006/7 and 2008/9
- 'Ink and Script', 'The Binding of Manuscripts', 'Manuscripts of Old English Poetry', three lectures in 2007/8 and 2009/10
- Insular script-reading class, eight one-hour classes in 2005
- First-year palaeography workshops, total of forty-four teaching hours across three terms in 2004 and 2005
- Second-year palaeography workshops, total of fifty-nine teaching hours classes across eight terms in 2004–2011
- Beginner's Latin class, ten one-hour classes across two terms in 2007 and 2008
- Lectures are delivered to first and second year undergraduates and to graduate students; first-year workshops also include graduate students
Supervising:
- One-on-one or one-on-two supervisions for first and second-year undergraduates on the script-systems of the British Isles up to A.D. 1200, total of 175 hours to date
- Supervised two undergraduate dissertations in 2008/9: 'publication' in Anglo-Saxon England, and the 'Illustrated Hexateuch' (London, BL Cotton Claudius B.iv)
- Coordinated of all palaeography supervisions for first-year students in 2005 and 2006 and for second-year students in 2005–2007
Examining:
- Set examination-papers at Prelim. (first-year BA), Part I (second-year BA), and MPhil level in cooperation with one or more other member of the University in 2005, 2006, 2008 and 2009
- Assessor (first marker) for Prelim. examinations, Assessor (first or second marker) Part I examinations, and marker for select undergraduate dissertations and MPhil Written Exercises (exams) in palaeography in 20062010.
- Assessor (second marker) for Classical Latin (English Tripos, Part I Paper 7: European Languages and Literatures) in 2008, and Assessor (second marker) for Medieval Latin, Prelim. and Part I, in 2010.
October 2009–June 2010 Associated Lecturer in Early Medieval History School of Historical Studies, University of Leicester, U.K.
- Co-convenor of second-year undergraduate module, 'Race and Ethnicity': five lectures and six seminars on Viking history.
- Designed, convened and taught first-year module, 'People and Places: Medieval Worcester'.
- Designed, convened and taught second-year module, 'Early Medieval History: Books, Manuscripts and Documents'.
- All teaching includes writing and delivering lectures, running seminars, and marking exams and essays.