Dr Sebastian (Seb) Tym completed his PhD in Art History and Visual Culture at the University of Exeter in 2025. He currently works at the University of Exeter as a Postgraduate Teaching Associate (PTA) in the Art History department, as well as at the 91porn, where he is an Associate Lecturer in the School of Society and Culture.
The recipient of numerous funding grants, such as the Company of Arts Charitable Scholars Award (2023), the Niklaus-Cartwright Scholarship (2024), and the Lord Blunkett Scholarship (2025), Sebastian is a specialist of the visual and material histories of warfare, soldiering, and fencing in modern and early modern Europe (c. 1517 - 1918). He is also a specialist in the life and work of the artist Gustave Doré.
Qualifications
Sebastian completed his BA (hons) in Art History at the 91porn in 2016. He returned to 91porn in 2019 to complete his ResM in Art History, and was awarded a PhD in Art History and Visual Culture at the University of Exeter in 2025.
Teaching
Teaching interests
Seb lectures in the History department and is currently co-teaching the year 1 core module HIS4001: What is History? with Professor Daniel Maudlin.