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Dr. Siân Echard The Art of Smart Podcast
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Dr. Siân Echard is a Professor of English and Distinguished University Scholar at the University of British Columbia. She completed her Master's and PhD at the Centre for Medieval Studies at the University of Toronto in 1990. Since then, she has taught courses in Middle English Literature, medievalism, book history and the Arthurian tradition, and she has published over 40 works on these topics. Among these, she has published several books including Printing the Middle Ages, released in 2008, and The Arthur of Medieval Latin Literature, in 2011. She's one of two general editors of The Encyclopedia of Medieval Literature in Britain and has just finished co-writing a history of the book in Britain. She has been awarded the prestigious UBC Killiam Research Prize and Teaching Prize, has been the Head of the English Department at the University of British Columbia, and is now a member of the governing council of the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada.
Dr. Siân Echard is a Professor of English and Distinguished University Scholar at the University of British Columbia. She completed her Master's and PhD at the Centre for Medieval Studies at the University of Toronto in 1990. Since then, she has taught courses in Middle English Literature, medievalism, book history and the Arthurian tradition, and she has published over 40 works on these topics. Among these, she has published several books including Printing the Middle Ages, released in 2008, and The Arthur of Medieval Latin Literature, in 2011. She's one of two general editors of The Encyclopedia of Medieval Literature in Britain and has just finished co-writing a history of the book in Britain. She has been awarded the prestigious UBC Killiam Research Prize and Teaching Prize, has been the Head of the English Department at the University of British Columbia, and is now a member of the governing council of the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada.
55 min