Assoc. Prof Erin Sebo

Erin is Associate Professor in Medieval Literature and Language at Flinders University in Adelaide. She holds two major Australian Research Council grants and has published widely on early medieval literature and culture, as well as a significant body of interdisciplinary archaeological research with a particular focus on shipsettings, medieval maritime culture, and monumentality. Before coming to Flinders, she taught at Monash University (Melbourne), University College Dublin, Trinity College Dublin and Queen’s University Belfast. She is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Antiquaries and Visiting Fellow at St Cross College, University of Oxford. Her research has been reported in The Times (London), CNN, the BBC and she has a recurring segment on medieval cultures in The Sunday Mail (Adelaide). Her first monograph, In Enigmate: the History of a Riddle from 400-1500, was published in 2018. Since then she has co-edited ‘Emotional Alterity in the North Sea World’ and ‘Exiles: Medieval Experiences of Isolation’. Her forthcoming monograph on Beowulf is due out with Manchester University Press.