Jennifer Edmond

Director of MPhil in Digital Humanities and Culture, Associate Professor of Digital Humanities, Fellow of Trinity College.

Professor Jennifer Edmond is Associate Professor of Digital Humanities, co-director of the Trinity Center for Digital Humanities and Director of Trinity's MPhil in Digital Humanities and Culture. She holds a PhD in Germanic Languages and Literatures from Yale University, and applies her training as a scholar of language, narrative and culture to the study and promotion of advanced methods in and infrastructures for the arts and humanities.

In this vein, she has developed a significant profile in European research and research policy circles in the past 5 years, having been named one of Ireland’s five “Champions of EU Research” in 2012.  She coordinated the €6.5m CENDARI FP7 (2012-1026) project and is a partner in the related infrastructure cluster, PARTHENOS. Her other EU projects have included coordinating Researcher Night in 2013, Europeana Cloud, the ESF Network NeDiMAH, the ICT ‘sister project’ Knowledge Complexity (KPLEX) and also PROVIDEDH CHIST-ERA project. Her current projects include Computational Literary Studies Infrastructure (CLS Infra) and Knowledge Technologies for Democracy (KT4D).

Jennifer is a former member (2017-2022) and President (2018-2022) of the Board of Directors of the pan-European research infrastructure for the arts and humanities, DARIAH-EU. Additionally she represented this body on the Open Science Policy Platform (OSPP), which supports the European Commission in developing and promoting Open Science policies.

Jennifer has played a leadership role in numerous strategic developments at national and institutional level, and has lent her expertise in the development of infrastructure to a wide variety of initiatives and agencies, from the food manufacturing industry through to the Korean national maritime agency. She is also a strong proponent of public outreach for academic research, having presented her work to general audiences, live as well as through radio, television and video, as well as through the media of art installations (such as the SKU Market), theatre and stand-up comedy.

Phone: +353 896 4225 | Email: edmondj@tcd.ie

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