Welcome
Scanning a cross fragment in Ruthwell Kirk for the Visionary Cross Project
Welcome to my University of Lethbridge Home Page.
I am a Professor in the Department of English at the University of Lethbridge and the University Library. In the Department of English, 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. You can find out more about my teaching by following this link.
My main research interests include Digital Humanities, Scholarly Communication, Old English language and literature, the history of the book, editorial and textual scholarship, and reception-oriented criticism. I maintain a preprint and offprint library where you can access copies of my work at Zenodo (mostly complete), in the University’s Institutional Repository (less complete), and in various commercial sites such as Academic.edu and Research Gate (much less complete). My Google Scholar Profile lists most of my publications; my CV and Uniweb Profile should have all of them.
I am Principal Investigator (PI) on several research initiatives focused on scholarly communication, data infrastructure, academic governance, and early medieval culture. These are supported by internal and external funding from various programmes. The training of Highly Qualified Personnel (HQP) is an important element in all.
- Resistance to Data: Understanding data use in the traditional Humanities (2022–). Umbrella initiative investigating epistemic and institutional resistance to structured data in the humanities. Builds on the earlier projects Good Things Come in Small Packages and Humanities Data Inquiry (HDI) _projects. Funding: SSHRC Insight Grant 2025–2029, PI, $300,000; SSHRC PDG 2022–2025, PI, $200,000.
- #safespaces?: Academic Freedom and Inclusivity in an Age of Polarisation (2024–). Examines how political polarisation and campus speech discourses intersect with evolving understandings of academic freedom. Funding: SSHRC Insight Development Grant (applied for), PI.
- Lethbridge Journal Incubator: Using Open Access publication to provide work-integrated-learning opportunities to graduate students (2012–). Training and mentorship program in scholarly publishing. Provides graduate students with editorial and infrastructure experience. Funding: SSHRC Aid to Scholarly Journals (PI); School of Graduate Studies; School of Graduate Studies, Strategic Opportunities Fund (SOF).
- Visionary Cross: Modelling the Ruthwell Cross, Bewcastle Cross, and Brussels Cross (2005–). A digital edition and visualization of the Ruthwell Cross and related artifacts. Combines philology, archaeology, and imaging. Includes multi-format outputs and graduate training. Funding: Chinook Summer Student Grant 2025 ($6,000); Mitacs Global Interns; SSHRC Insight Grant 2014–2017 ($282,190); SSHRC SRG 2005–2008.
QR code of my ORCID number 0000-0002-0127-4893
Link to my Google Scholar Profile.In addition to these research projects, I have been active for the last several years in academic and research administration. I am a past president of the Society for Digital Humanities / Société pour l’étude des médias interactifs, a Canada-wide association that both draws together humanists who are engaged in digital and computer-assisted research, teaching, and creation and participates in international efforts to call attention to the importance of digital technology in the practice of the humanities through partnerships with other agencies. I am co-editor of Digital Studies / Le champ numérique and associate editor of Digital Medievalist), a journal I helped found. In previous years I have been Chair and CEO of the Text Encoding Initiative (2006-2010), founding director of the Digital Medievalist Community of Practice (2003-2009), and chair of my department (2004-2007 and current).
There are a number of different ways of finding out about me or my research and teaching:
- My academic curriculum vitae
- My Orchid ID is 0000-0002-0127-4893.
- My personal repository at Zenodo or my articles in Opus, the University of Lethbridge’s Institutional Repository
- My profiles at
- You can also follow me on Twitter as @DanielPaulOD (but to be honest I don’t post there much any more).
