BARBARA BORDALEJO
Barbara Bordalejo is a textual critic and digital humanist with a background in English literature.
Her research focuses on textual transmission and uses bioinformatics software to study relationships between texts.
She is the director of the Canterbury Tales Project, recently awarded $333.000. She is currently considering students with interests in:
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Humanities Data
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Chaucer
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Middle English
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Stemmatology
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Digital Editions
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Intersectional studies
Barbara is chair of Global Outlook :: Digital Humanities, secretary of the European Association for Digital Humanities, President of the Canadian Society for Digital Humanities/ Société cannadiene des humanités numériques, and co-chair of DH Unbound. Between 2015 and 2019, served on the Steering Committee of the Alliance of Digital Humanities Organizations (ADHO).
She has edited Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales, Darwin’s Origin of Species and collaborated in the creation of editions of Dante’s Commedia, Boccaccio’s Teseida, 15th Century Castillian Cancioneros, and the Estoria de Espanna. She works in the Textual Communities Project.
DANIEL O'DONNELL
Daniel Paul O’Donnell is a Professor of English and an Associate Member of the University Library Academic Staff. His research ranges from early medieval languages and literatures to Open Science and the use of data in the Humanities. He is currently accepting highly motivated and independent students with interests in the following areas:
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Digital Editing/Digital Cultural Heritage
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Humanities Data
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Early Medieval English language and literature
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History of English
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The practice and dissemination of research and research data in the Humanities
O’Donnell has played a leading role in many of the most important international research projects in the Digital Humanities and Open Science of the last twenty-five years, including stints as Director or President of Force11 (FORCE11.org), the Force 11 Scholarly Communications Institute (FSCI), The Text Encoding Initiative (tei-c.org/), Global Outlook::Digital Humanities (globaloutlookdh.org), Digital Medievalist (digitalmedievalist.org), and the Canadian Society for Digital Humanities/Société canadienne des humanités numériques (csdh-schn.org). He has received funding in Open Science and Medieval Studies from SSHRC, CFI, Mellon, Sloan, and Moore.
His Google Scholar Profile is available here; his personal pre-print and off-print library is available at Zenodo. An up-to-date copy of his CV is also available from his University website.
O’Donnell is active in the University of Lethbridge Faculty Association. He is currently President and was Chief Spokesperson for Bargaining for three rounds of negotiations 2015-2015, 2016-2019, and 2020-.
NATHAN WOODS
Nathan Woods is interdisciplinary research scholar working at the intersection of research and practice on issues related to the creation, use, and stewardship of science, scholarship and cultural memory. Working with multiple communities of practice, his larger research agenda considers the complex and dynamic relationships between knowledge, the design of institutions and the organization of expert work. Ongoing projects explore emergent expertise in higher education; the changing composition and organization of the scholarly record; evidence and information practices in the science-policy interface; and collective movements to democratize knowledge. He holds a PhD in Anthropology from the CUNY Graduate Center; an MSLIS from the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign; and an interdisciplinary BA from Evergreen State College. His work has been funded by the U.S. National Science Foundation and the American Philosophical Society.
DAVIDE PAFUMI
Davide is a Middle English scholar with a focus on the intersection between Digital Humanities, literature and linguistics. His project "The Space of Love," supervised by Dr. Daniel O'Donnell and Dr. Barbara Bordalejo, investigates the literacy discourse on love in the Late Middle Ages from a computational and linguistic perspective as a way to complicate the understanding of the mediaeval distinction of love in the field. Among other side projects, his work on the "Canterbury Tales Project" contribute to transcription, editing and encoding of the 88 pre-modern manuscripts of Chaucer's Canterbury Tales textual tradition.
FRANK ONUH
Frank is a doctoral student at CSPT supervised by Dan O'Donnell and Barbara Bordalejo in the Humanities Innovation Lab.
His thesis prospectus was approved in November 2024 and he is working on a thesis tentatively entitled: "Ichọpụta Eziokwu: The (Un/Re)making of Truth - An Interrogation of Language, Power and Patronage in Information Verification Practices in African Context."
He is currently preparing his comprehensive exams.
AKM IFTEKHAR KHALID
AKM Iftekhar Khalid is a graduate student (PhD) at the Department of English, University of Lethbridge, Alberta, Canada under the supervision of Professor Daniel Paul O’Donnell. Khalid is a textual editor at the Canterbury Tales Project. Khalid has a background in English and Digital Pedagogy with undergraduate and graduate degrees in English from University of Rajshahi, Bangladesh and various certificates and diplomas in learning management systems, digital education, and similar programs from Bangladeshi and other institutions. His chief research interest includes Textual Editing, History of English Language, Digital Humanities and Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). Khalid also works for the Journal Incubator.
MORGAN SLAYDE PEARCE
Morgan is a graduate student (MA) and a part of the Humanities Innovation Lab. She is a research assistant for the Lethbridge Journal Incubator and the Canterbury Tales Project. Her thesis combines medieval literary studies and game studies to look at how non-linear narratives in various genres and mediums are used to convey the experience of depression and loss, specifically through the use of the symbol of the labyrinth. Her research combines studies of the history of the book, medieval literature, game studies, and digital humanities. Her most recent conference presentations include an analysis of how women’s experiences are presented as horror in Silent Hill 3 and Haunting Ground, as well as a study into the scribal evidence for a performative usage of Geoffrey Chaucer’s The Canterbury Tales. She graduated from the University of Lethbridge with her BA in English in 2021 with Great Distinction.
JOSEPHINE TABIRI
Josephine Konamah Tabiri. An incoming Graduate student with a Bachelor’s degree from Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology, Ghana.
Her research focuses on the linguistic landscape of Ghana.
She is currently working at the Humanities Innovation Lab and is a TA in the Department of English.
JOCELYN MCKNIGHT
Jocelyn McKnight is an undergraduate student currently pursuing a BA, majoring in English Language Arts, with a French minor at the University of Lethbridge. She is involved in the Visionary Cross Project, works as an undergraduate TA in the Linguistics and Modern Language Department, and serves as an instructional designer for online secondary schooling in Alberta. Her academic interests revolves around Old English philology, phonetics and phonology related to endangered Languages, and Digital Humanities.