Sebastian Dows-Miller

About

I am a stipendiary lecturer in French at St Peter’s and Merton Colleges, and a final-year doctoral student in Medieval and Modern Languages at St Hilda's College. My research interests centre around the manuscript transmission of short texts, with a particular interest in those written in Old French. My doctoral thesis focusses on a fourteenth-century manuscript collection (BnF fr. 24432), taking a mixed-method approach to questions of transmission and authorship, which involves the use of data-driven and statistical approaches.

Teaching

At St Peter’s I teach French Prelims Papers II, III, and IV to first-year students, ranging from language and translation teaching, through to a wide array of literature from the thirteenth to twenty-first centuries. I also teach translation from French to second- and fourth-year students, in the form of FHS Paper IIA.

Publications

‘A New Approach to Scribal Abbreviation in the Bestiaire in Merton College Library, MS 249’, Reinardus, 34 (2022), 60–76 https://doi.org/10.1075/rein.00059.dow