Author Biographies

Barbara Bordalejo Barbara Bordalejo is a textual scholar, editor, and digital humanist whose work spans digital editing, manuscript studies, and the politics of knowledge production in the humanities. She holds PhDs from New York University and De Montfort University, and she is Director of the Canterbury Tales Project and Publishing Director at Scholarly Digital Editions. Currently an Adjunct Professor at the University of Lethbridge, she has previously held academic appointments in Canada, the UK, Belgium, and Italy. Her research interests include AI and data ethics in higher education, the application of bioinformatics to textual criticism, and intersectional feminist approaches to scholarly editing. Barbara serves as President of the Canadian Society for Digital Humanities and sits on the editorial board of Digital Scholarship in the Humanities. Her recent publications explore AI-assisted writing, digital pedagogy, and critical approaches to the unessay.

Alexis Culotta Alexis Culotta serves on the art history faculty at Tulane University and investigates how the tensions of competition, collaboration, and innovation drove artistic and architectural practice in early modern Rome. Her first book, Tracing the Visual Language of Raphael’s Circle to 1527 (Brill, 2020), explored these intersections and in turn launched her collaborative work on the Artistic Network Toolkit (ANT), funded by an NEH Phase II Digital Humanities Advancement Grant. Her second book, The Frescoed Façade in Renaissance Roman Visual Culture (Amsterdam University Press, 2025), investigates the breadth and implications of decorated façade in Rome between the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries. In addition to the NEH, her work has been supported by the American Academy in Rome, the Kress Foundation, the Renaissance Society of America, the Italian Art Society, and the New Foundation for Art History.

Aron Culotta Dr. Culotta is an Associate Professor of Computer Science at Tulane University and Director of the Tulane Center for Community-Engaged Artificial Intelligence. He earned his PhD in computer science from the University of Massachusetts-Amherst in 2008. His research focuses on machine learning, natural language processing, and social network analysis, with emphasis on their societal implications. His cross-disciplinary work, funded by the NSF and NEH, has advanced AI for public health, marketing, political science, and emergency response. Dr. Culotta has published over seventy peer-reviewed publications, serves on the steering committee of the International Conference on Web and Social Media, and has received best paper awards from AAAI and CSCW.

Daniel Paul O’Donnell Daniel Paul O’Donnell is a Professor of English and Department Chair at the University of Lethbridge. His research and teaching focuses on Digital Humanities, the formation and practice of the humanities, Open Science, and early medieval philology and textual criticism. He is the author of Cædmon’s Hymn, A Multimedia Archive, Edition, and Study (Medieval Academy of America/SEENET, 2005, and a co-author of Reading Peer Review: PLOS ONE and Institutional Change in Academia (Cambridge University Press, 2020). During the pandemic, he was PI on a Sloan-funded project examining how Open Science instruction was adapting to an online environment.

Davide Pafumi Davide Pafumi is a doctoral candidate at the University of Lethbridge specializing in medieval studies and Digital Humanities. His research focuses on medieval literature, historical linguistics, paleography, and computational approaches to address complex Humanities research questions. He serves as a research assistant to the “Canterbury Tales Project,” where he works on the transcription, editing, and encoding of the 88 pre-modern manuscripts in Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales textual tradition. Davide has received several prestigious awards in the field of medieval studies, including the 2023 Benton-Mahoney Award from the Medieval Association of the Pacific and the 2025 Founders Grant from the International Courtly Literature Society (North American Branch). In 2021, he graduated with Honours from the University of Padua, earning MA in English and German Linguistics and Literatures.

Morgan S. Pearce Morgan Slayde Pearce is a master’s student at the University of Lethbridge and a member 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 media 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. Morgan received the Alberta Graduate Excellence Scholarship in 2023 and the Benton-Mahoney Award from the Medieval Association of the Pacific in 2024. She graduated from the University of Lethbridge with her BA in English in 2021 with Great Distinction.

Shawna Ross Shawna Ross is Associate Professor of English at Texas A&M University, where she researches digital humanities, transnational literatures, digital pedagogy, and environmental humanities