O'Donnell, Dan
Professor
- Phone
- (403) 329-2377
- Fax
- (403) 382-7191
- daniel.odonnell@uleth.ca
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About Me
I am a Professor of English at the Ãâ·Ñ¸£Àû×ÊÔ´ÔÚÏß¿´Æ¬ of Lethbridge, and co-PI of the Humanities Innovation Lab with Barbara Bordalejo. My university website is at . You can read my CV .
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:
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 Stakesin 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 , a former President and Chief Negoitator for the , a member of the CAUT Bargaining and Organising Committee, and director or chair of numerous scholarly societies and research projects, including , the , the , , and . I am a former Editor-in-Chief of and the .
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English; Dutch; French; German; Italian