Conclusion: The future of digital editing and publishing

James O’Sullivan lectures in the Department of Digital Humanities at University College Cork, where he is Director of Research for the School of English & Digital Humanities, as well as a member of the Research & Innovation Committee for the College Arts, Celtic Studies & Social Sciences. He is a member of the board of the Future Humanities Institute, for which he leads the Digital Cultures, New Media, & Cultural Analytics research cluster. He is the author of Towards a Digital Poetics (Palgrave Macmillan 2019). James has edited several collections of scholarly essays, including The Bloomsbury Handbook to the Digital Humanities (Bloomsbury 2023) and Technology in Irish Literature and Culture (Cambridge University Press 2023). He is the Principal Investigator (Ireland) on C21 Editions: Editing and Publishing in the Digital Age, funded under the UK-Ireland Collaboration in the Digital Humanities. See jamesosullivan.org for more on his work.

Sophie Whittle is a Research Associate on C21 Editions: Editing and Publishing in the Digital Age project, responsible for developing a prototype online teaching edition of Geoffrey Chaucer’s Pardoner’s Prologue and Tale using machine assisted methods. Sophie has taught on modules in the history of English, historical pragmatics, research methods and syntax. She has co-ordinated interdisciplinary workshops on centring anti-racist research in the linguistics curric­ulum, inviting speakers from across the globe to present their research on the pragmatics of postcolonial communities, language and culture sharing and human rights, and has since become a member of the Linguistic Association of Great Britain’s racial justice subcommittee. She is also an organiser at the Sheffield Feminist Archive, and has recently contributed to the creation of a digital archive named Women in Lockdown, a project that houses women’s stories and experiences of the pandemic via oral history, testimony, diary entries and artwork submissions.