Barbara BordalejoUniversity of Lethbridge · Department of English
Barbara Bordalejo
PhD in English and American Literature, NYU
Canterbury Tales Project
Humanities Data Inquiry
Humanities Innovation Lab
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Introduction
My research focuses on the theoretical aspects of textual criticism, especially computerized methods applied to the study of texts, and on electronic editions and the history and future of the book (including e-books and e-book readers). I write about digital literature and transmedia storytelling, as well as the transformational impact of digital culture on our ideas of authorship and copyright. I advocate data-sharing through creative commons licenses without commercial restrictions.
Additional affiliations
September 2021 - present
March 2018 - present
October 2014 - September 2019
Education
September 2017 - July 2019
August 1999 - July 2003
September 1997 - May 2000
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Publications (43)
For some time, scholars have been using computer-assisted methods to produce graphic representations of the relationships between witnesses within a textual tradition. ¹ The use of methods originally developed by evolutionary biologists has been called into question on account of the perceived lack of identity between two different disciplines. Thi...
Several recent works have addressed the question of the extent to
which recent advances in digital scholarship imply a revolution in
scholarly editing practice. The current article addresses claims of a qualitative leap in the scholarly editing and suggests that while digital means present many advantages, digital editing practice is less far remov...
This article discusses the targeting of women and minorities on the internet, specifically focusing on matters which have arisen within the Digital Humanities community in the Global North. 1 I explore the connection between Milo Yiannopoulos's key role in GamerGate, the online harassment of female journalists, and the targeted attacks against fema...
This article describes computer-assisted methods for the analysis of textual variation within large textual traditions. It focuses on the conversion of the XML apparatus into NEXUS, a file type commonly used in bioinformatics.
Phylogenetics methods are described with particular emphasis on maximum parsimony, the preferred approach for our research...
Barbara Bordalejo, Ryan Cordell, and Daniel P. O’Donnell, Editors
Extended Deadline for 500-Word Abstracts: May 1, 2022
Note: A labour disruption at the University of Lethbridge affected our ability to communicate with potential authors through February and March. We are extending the deadline by a month as a result. We have a number of excellent...
This article describes computer-assisted methods for the analysis of textual variation within large textual traditions. It focuses on the conversion of the XML apparatus into NEXUS, a file type commonly used in bioinformatics. Phylogenetics methods are described with particular emphasis on maximum parsimony, the preferred approach for our research....
The massive increase in the use of mobile devices over the last years, with over half of all accesses to the internet now coming from mobile devices, presents a challenge and an opportunity to textual scholars. It has long been suggested that digital technologies may help scholarly editors find new audiences for their work: work which has tradition...
Although textual scholars agree that collation is a crucial component of the editing process, it often goes undefined and only briefly explained. This article defines the term, explains different kinds of collation, and explores some of its applications. We emphasize stemmatology and medieval textual traditions. By drawing from editorial examples a...
The introduction to the special volume recounts Bordalejo's 23 years of involvement with the project and offers an overview of the articles included.
This paper describes the Digital Privilege Game, a diversity training tool that highlights systemic oppression and individual privilege.
As digital humanities has expanded in scope and content, questions of how to negotiate the overlapping influences of race, class, gender, sexuality, nation, and other dimensions that shape data, archives, and methodologies have come to the fore. Taking up these concerns, the authors in this volume explore their effects on the methodological, politi...
The literature of stemmatics is rich in discussions of two phenomena which, it
is commonly held, render the orderly assignation of manuscripts into families
problematic, even impossible. These two phenomena are coincident agreement
(where unrelated manuscripts share the same reading, apparently by simple coincidence) and contamination (where a manu...
This presentation describes parts of Elena Pierazzo's book, Digital Scholarly Editting.
This is the front matter and bibliography of my 2019 MFA thesis. The "Artist's Statement" defines The University of Shadow's genre as urban fantasy and presents a theoretical approach in relation to other texts and genres.
The literature of stemmatics is rich in discussions of two phenomena which, it is commonly held, render the orderly assignation of manuscripts into families problematic, even impossible. These two phenomena are coincident agreement (where unrelated manuscripts share the same reading, apparently by simple coincidence) and contamination (where a manu...
This chapter considers how one may use Genette's concepts of paratext and hypertext within transmedia narratives and born-digital texts and explores how Web publication problematizes standard ideas of authorship and copyright. This challenges our concepts of originality and our understanding of what constitutes the text and what stands outside it....
Introducción Este artículo defi ne el libro en el contexto del siglo XXI, cuando el códice ya no es necesariamente la forma más común para la distri-bución de textos, y considera la materialidad de los libros electró-nicos; comienza discutiendo las ideas expuestas en «What is a Book?» para explorar los conceptos implícitos en nuestro sistema cultur...
This article used computer assisted collation to isolate variation in Caxton's first and second editions of the Canterbury Tales. The results of this collation show that Caxton introduced a substantial number of changes into his second edition. It concludes that Caxton was a careful editor who accurately described his work.
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This article describes the project An Electronic Corpus of Fifteenth-Century Castilian Cancionero Manuscripts, paying particular attention to issues and solutions in matters related to textual criticism, such as the collation of witnesses and the generation of phylogenetic stemmata.
This chapter considers how one may use Genette's concepts of paratext and hypertext within transmedia narratives and born-digital texts and explores how Web publication problematizes standard ideas of authorship and copyright. This challenges our concepts of originality and our understanding of what constitutes the text and what stands outside it....
The first part of this article describes the development of the encoding system originally devised for the Commedia Project, 1 and subsequently adapted for other projects. 2 The second part of the article describes the encodings used for the transcription and editorial phenomena described elsewhere in this publication.
This article describes recent research on the textual relationship between the first and second editions of the Canterbury Tales printed in England by William Caxton and it also explores the textual affiliations of the manuscript source for the corrections in the second edition. Using both computerised and manual methods the variant readings betwee...
Biological techniques can be used to reconstruct the stemmata of text traditions. Here, we describe methods for assessing the reliability of the results. We use compatibility matrices to detect sections of the text with different patterns of transmission. By constructing stemmata from subsets of increasing size, we estimate the minimum amount of da...
Chaucer's CanterburyTales consists of loosely-connected stories,appearing in many different orders in extantmanuscripts. Differences in order result fromrearrangements by scribes during copying, andmay reveal relationships among manuscripts. Identifying these relationships is analogous todetermining evolutionary relationships amongorganisms from th...
Frequently, letters, words and sentences are used in undergraduate textbooks and the popular press as an analogy for the coding, transfer and corruption of information in DNA. We discuss here how the converse can be exploited, by using programs designed for biological analysis of sequence evolution to uncover the relationships between different man...
Frequently, letters, words, and sentences are used in undergraduate textbooks and the popular press as an analogy for the coding, transfer, and corruption of information in DNA.We discuss here how the converse can be exploited, by using programs designed for biological analysis of sequence evolution to uncover the relationships between different ma...
Typescript. Thesis (Ph. D.)--New York University, Graduate School of Arts and Science, 2003. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 290-300).
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The edition, launched in 2016, is intended to be a first step in the employment of digital tools for the presentation and analysis of the Estoria de Espanna, but it is also conceived as a way of furthering our knowledge and understanding of how digital tools might usefully be employed in the study and dissemination of medieval prose. The research component of the edition, therefore, lies not only in the breadth of knowledge of the Estoria de Espanna that it provides, but also in the form of the edition -its attempt to push the barriers of what is possible with digital editions, at least where medieval Iberian prose is concerned.
