About
Stephanie J. Lahey is a
SSHRC-funded PhD candidate at the University of Victoria, Canada, where she holds the Howard E. Petch Research Scholarship and a University of Victoria Fellowship. Her doctoral dissertation—a mixed-methodology, corpus-based study of the use of parchment ‘offcuts’ (low-quality byproducts of parchment manufacturing) in manuscripts produced in later medieval England—is jointly supervised by Dr. Iain Macleod Higgins (Victoria) and Dr. Erik Kwakkel (UBC iSchool). A recent Guest Researcher at
Universiteit Leiden, she is the Editorial Assistant of
Early Middle English, teaches at
DHSI and at the University of Victoria, and serves on the Public Relations and Outreach Committee of the
Canadian Society of Medievalists / Société canadienne des médiévistes. Her research interests include medieval codicology, palaeography, and manuscript production; parchment-manufacturing and use; medieval legal, technical, and reference literatures; quantitative and digital humanities; and public humanities.
Education
2015–present — PhD candidate, University of Victoria.
Supervisors: Dr. Iain Macleod Higgins (Victoria), Dr. Erik Kwakkel (UBC iSchool).
Dissertation Working Title: Offcut Parchment in Later Medieval British Manuscripts: A Mixed-Methodology, Corpus-Based Study.
2015 — Master of Arts, Université d’Ottawa / University of Ottawa.
Supervisor: Dr. Andrew Taylor (Ottawa).
Thesis:
Legal Book Collecting in Late Medieval Bristol: The Case of Harvard, Houghton Library, MS Richardson 40.
Selected Additional Professional Training