Andrew Dunning
R.W. Hunt Curator Of Medieval Manuscripts
Oxford, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolAndrew Dunning is R.W. Hunt Curator of Medieval Manuscripts at the Bodleian Library and a Hugh Price Fellow in Book History at Jesus College, Oxford, with 14 years of experience conserving, researching, and digitizing medieval book collections. He leads major exhibitions, acquisitions, and digital projects that expand access to manuscripts from the fifth to the sixteenth centuries, while securing funding for long-term initiatives like the Medieval Libraries of Great Britain. A scholar of twelfth–fourteenth-century textual communities, he produces critical editions (including a forthcoming Lives and Miracles of Saint Frideswide) and applies computational methods to ensure research longevity. His career bridges elite research libraries (British Library, Cambridge) and teaching roles across North America and the UK, mentoring students in palaeography, TEI, and digital scholarship. Unusually for a medievalist, he contributes to notable open-source projects—helping improve pandoc templates and Zotero TEI translators and maintaining Homebrew formulae—demonstrating a practical fluency with tools that aid digital humanities workflows.
14 years of coding experience
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD Medieval Studies, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD Medieval Studies at University of TorontoLicentiate degree Medieval Studies, Licentiate degree Medieval Studies at Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval StudiesBachelor of Arts - BA History, Bachelor of Arts - BA History at University of Ottawa
French, English, Latin, German, English, french, middle (ca.1400-1600), Italian
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Github Skills (43)
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latex10
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Programming languages (25)
Github contributions (5)
jgm/pandoc
Jul 2015 - Feb 2021
Universal markup converter
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:89 commits, 48 PRs, 149 comments in 5 years 7 months
Contributions summary:Andrew primarily focused on enhancing the functionality and appearance of the HTML templates used by the pandoc project. Their work included correcting superscript/subscript rendering and improving the visual presentation through CSS modifications and adjustments to existing HTML templates. They also added support for AsciiDoc file extensions and expanded the LaTeX writer by incorporating new languages and features, showcasing a focus on improving the versatility and usability of pandoc.
pandocmarkup-converterpublishingpresentationcommonmark
zotero/translators
May 2014 - Jan 2019
Zotero Translators
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:5 commits, 3 PRs, 14 comments in 4 years 8 months
Contributions summary:Andrew primarily focused on enhancing the TEI (Text Encoding Initiative) translator within the Zotero framework. Their contributions included fixing journal title formatting, updating the timestamp, and declaring Unicode encoding for proper XML parsing. Furthermore, the user implemented changes to align the TEI translator with updates in the TEI 2.8 standard and integrated Better BibTeX citation key functionality.
translatorstranslationzotero
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