Sebastian (“Seb”) Rider-Bezerra holds advanced degrees in Middle Welsh (MA, Aberystwyth, 2014) and Medieval Studies (PhD, Yale, 2020). His MA dissertation focused on the corpus of material surrounding the semi-legendary early medieval king Rhydderch Hael of Strathclyde and his PhD dissertation explored jurisdictional ambiguity in medieval English Gascony.
He is part-time faculty at the University of Connecticut and Eastern Connecticut State University, teaching courses in ancient and medieval history. He teaches regular online classes in Middle Welsh and has directed online reading groups in Middle Welsh for over ten years. In 2020, he co-founded the Middle Welsh Pedagogy Working Group, which sponsored the first international conference on the teaching of Middle Welsh.
In addition to his teaching, he has worked as a research consultant for faculty at Yale and the Princeton Theological Seminary. In the 2024-2025 academic year he was a Wallace Johnson Program fellow through Western Michigan University.
Seb lives in Connecticut, USA with his wife Abigail, their sprocker spaniel Remington, and his two cats Harriet and Percival.
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