Dr. Barbara Bordalejo
I am a professor with more than 20 years of experience in research, teaching, and project management. As an academic leader, I am former president of the Canadian Society for Digital Humanities/ Société canadienne des humanités numériques and have served as Chair of Global Outlook:: Digital Humanities, Secretary of the European Association of Digital Humanities, and in various positions at ADHO.
My background in Digital Humanities and English literature has allowed ample experience in interdisciplinary collaborative projects. I edit texts, mostly Chaucer's Canterbury Tales, but also Darwin's Origin of Species.
Here is a link to my ORCID profile. You can also find me on Google Scholar, ResearchGate, and Academia.edu. For my Zenodo personal repository follow this link.
I am working on a collection on the unessay, co-edited with Daniel Paul O'Donnell, and on various publications based on research carried out at the Humanities Innovation Lab.
MY LATEST RESEARCH
In 2026, as part of the Canterbury Tales Project, I published three editions:
The Book of the Tales of Canterbury: The General Prologue.
The Book of the Tales of Canterbury: The Miller's Tale.
The Book of the Tales of Canterbury: The Tales of the Reeve and the Cook.
We are continuing our work to produce a complete critical edition of Chaucer's most important work. As the first Latinx editor of Chaucer, I bring a fresh perspective to the text and our understanding of its transmission. Our editions are freely available online.
As part of the Unessay collection, I created a comic explaining the concept.
It was important to highlight alternative ways to communicate research that not only address learning differences but also show how different cultures approach research outreach and knowledge transmission. For more visual learners, the comic form might represent a medium that allows easier conceptual comprehension.
My own essay in the collection, Unsettling the Classroom, focuses on different modes of learning and knowledge keeping.
Other authors offer both their experiences and approaches, each from their different disciplines.
Since 2015, I have worked on Equity, Diversity, Inclusion, and Decolonization in Digital Humanities. I gave presentations on the subject at the DH conference in Krakow. With Daniel O'Donnell, I delivered the ADHO diversity workshop at the annual DH conference (2017 to 2022). My article, Minority Report, was published in Bodies of Information (Edited by Elizabeth Losh and Jacqueline Wernimont). Intersectionality in Digital Humanities, which I co-edited with Roopika Risam, appeared in 2019 (Arc-Humanities Press and Amsterdam University Press).
In collaboration with Richard North (University College London) and Peter Robinson (University of Saskatchewan), I have been working on the CantApp, an application for mobile devices. On February 3rd 2020, we released the General Prologue of Chaucer's Canterbury Tales. A web version of this work can be found on the Scholarly Digital Editions site. The app is free to download at Google Play or the Apple Store (search for Chaucer General Prologue). We have described the app here and here