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:

• Humanities Data
• Chaucer
• Middle English
• Stemmatology
• Digital Editions
• 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 canadienne 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.

Dr. Sidney Shapiro is an Assistant Professor of Business Analytics at the Dhillon School of Business, University of Lethbridge, and an Adjunct Assistant Professor of Computer Science. With over a decade of experience in data science, his research is at the intersection of business and computer science. Dr. Shapiro holds a PhD in Interdisciplinary Studies — social network analytics. He previously led data science teams in occupational health and safety and now integrates his industry experience into developing analytics courses that prepare students for the evolving demands of data-driven fields. View his research and publications on Google Scholar.

Davide Pafumi is a doctoral candidate in the Department of English at the University of Lethbridge. His dissertation project, “The Space of Love,” supervised by Dr. Daniel O’Donnell and Dr. Barbara Bordalejo, investigates the literary discourse of love in the British Isles during the late Middle Ages. Using vector space modelling, he aims to find out whether NLP-based techniques can complicate the current understanding of the medieval distinctions of love. Alongside his doctoral research, Davide contributes to the “Canterbury Tales Project,” where his work includes the transcription, editing, and markup of the eighty-eight pre-modern manuscripts that constitute the textual tradition of Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales. He is also a research assistant with “Humanities Data Inquiry,” a project examining how data practices shape the production of knowledge in the Humanities. His broader research and publication include linguistics and literatures, digital hermeneutics, critical digital pedagogy, and scholarly communication. He also serves in several professional organizations, including the Advisory Board of the International Courtly Literature Society-North American Branch and the Council of the Medieval Association of the Pacific. In 2026, he was Visiting Research Fellow at the University of Pennsylvania, where he worked on AI applied to Handwritten Text Recognition of medieval manuscripts.

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.

Oluwaseun Soneye is an ethnomusicologist with a passion for understanding how music shapes the lives and identities of people within and beyond their homelands. He recently completed his master’s degree in Ethnomusicology at the University of Lethbridge, where he focused on the musical and cultural practices of Nigerian immigrants living in Lethbridge.

From 2019 to 2021, Oluwaseun spent years immersed in the world of Kulumbu music, a tradition unique to the Yewa People of southwest Nigeria. He documented, analyzed, and experienced firsthand how this endangered form of music is woven into the daily lives and histories of a truly underrepresented group.

Oluwaseun's academic journey began with a bachelor’s degree in music (Education) from the University of Ibadan and a master’s in music (Ethnomusicology) from the University of Lagos. He has recently begun his PhD studies in Cultural, Social, and Political Thought (CSPT) at the University of Lethbridge.

Jocelyn McKnight is a recent graduate from the University of Lethbridge, where she earned a BA in English, with minors in French and Linguistics. Her academic interests revolve around Old English philology, linguistics of all kinds, and Digital Humanities. More specifically her research is focused on Cognitive Semantics. Jocelyn's honours thesis is focused on polysemic extensions of war and violence vocabulary in Tok Pisin, a mixed English and Indigenous language in Papua New Guinea. Jocelyn is currently an RA for the Visionary Cross Project and the Blackfoot Language Archive, but has also works as an TA in the Linguistics and Modern Language Department and served as an instructional designer for online secondary schooling in Alberta. Jocelyn is excited to begin her MPhil in Linguistics at the University of Hong Kong in fall 2026.