Congratulations to Professor Sebastian Sobecki (CMS / English), who has received the Dean’s Research Excellence Award in recognition of his significant and sustained research excellence, achievement and impact. Professor Sobecki's research and teaching extend to a wide area of late medieval and early modern literature, with a focus on ideas of the self, life writing, and materiality in the literary history of the long fifteenth century. He is particularly interested in Chaucer, Hoccleve, Kempe, Lydgate, Skelton, and Hakluyt. Authorship, law, travel, manuscripts, and palaeography are central to his practice.
Professor Sobecki has been making recent news, in being elected to the Fellowship of both the Royal Historical Society and the Prestigious English Association, and by assisting in acquiring a rare 14th-century manuscript, Sir John Mandeville’s Travels. We are thrilled now to be able to congratulate him on his latest achievement!