O'Donnell, Dan

I am a Professor of English at the University of Lethbridge, and co-PI of the Humanities Innovation Lab with Barbara Bordalejo. My university website is at http://people.uleth.ca/~daniel.odonnell/. You can read my CV here.

In the department, I am responsible for teaching most of our courses on Digital Humanities, medieval literature, the History of the Book, History of English, and the English language/grammar. I also share responsibility for our first year introductory course, English 1900. All syllabi for my courses dating back to 2004 can be found here: https://people.uleth.ca/~daniel.odonnell/teaching/

As a researcher, I work for the most part in the Digital Humanities, focussing particularly on the representation of Cultural Heritage, Globalisation and Diversity Studies, and Scholarly Communication. My current projects include

• "Resistance to Data: Humanities Approaches to Research Classification and Infrastructure" (AKA Humanities Data Inquiry). Funding: SSHRC Insight Grant 2025–2029, PI, $300,000; SSHRC PDG 2022–2025, PI, $200,000.
  
• "#safespaces? Speaker-Centred Rights, Discursive Power, and the Changing Stakes
  
  in Debates about Academic Freedom." Funding: SSHRC Insight Development Grant
  
  (under consideration). 
  
• "The Visionary Cross: Modelling the Ruthwell Cross, Bewcastle Cross, and Brussels
  Cross." Funding: Chinook Summer Student Grant 2025 ($6,000); Mitacs Global Interns;
  SSHRC Insight Grant 2014–2017 ($282,190); SSHRC SRG 2005–2008 ($62,430).
  

I also have been active for the last decade or so in academic and research administration and the academic labour movement. I am past president of the Confederation of Alberta Faculty Associations (CAFA), a former President and Chief Negoitator for the University of Lethbridge Faculty Association (ULFA), a member of the CAUT Bargaining and Organising Committee, and director or chair of numerous scholarly societies and research projects, including The Future of Research Communication and E-Scholarship (Force11), the Text Encoding Initiative (TEI), the Canadian Society of Digital Humanities/Société canadienne pour les humanités numériques (CSDH/SCHN), Global Outlook::Digital Humanities (GO::DH), and Digital Medievalist. I am a former Editor-in-Chief of Digital Studies / Le champ numérique and the Digital Medievalist Journal.