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Megan Bushnell is a post-doctoral researcher in linguistic data working to develop the Oxford Text Archive into a national repository of linguistic and literary data as part of the AHRC's iDAH programme and the CLARIN-UK network.  She helps administrate the CLARIN Knowledge Centre on Digital Resources for the Languages in Ireland and Britain and is currently involved in a pilot study 'Unlocking AI for the Languages in Britain and Ireland' with collaborators across the CLARIN network - most notably at Cardiff University, Lancaster University, University of Edinburgh, and Dublin City University.

Prior to this role, she led the data team for the Mapping the Arts and Humanities Project at the School of Advanced Study, University of London, which created an online database of arts and humanities research infrastructure in the UK.  She also designed the website and data structure for the Unlocking the English Portrait Miniature, a project based at the Fitzwilliam Museum, University of Cambridge.

Megan's academic background is in medieval literature, classics, and corpus linguistics.  Her personal research interests include Older Scots language and literature, reception of classical texts, digital humanities - with a special focus on digital philology, and book history.

Megan has experience teaching on textual analysis, digital scholarly editing, text alignment, OCR, language varieties, and medieval poetry.  She runs a weekly reading group during term on Older Scots.

Selected publications:  

  • Bushnell, M. 2025. ‘What’s in a Name? Douglas’s Depiction of Nationhood in the Eneados’, Journal of the Northern Renaissance, ed. by T. McElroy and D. Parkinson, https://jnr2.hcommons.org/2025/8648/.
  • Bushnell, M. 2025. ‘Creating a Literary Koine: How Gavin Douglas Translates Repetition in the Eneados to Enhance Narrative Unity’, The Medieval Translator, ed. by D. Bertagnolli and A. Zironi, The Medieval Translator Series 19 (Turnhout: Brepols), https://doi.org/10.1484/M.TMT-EB.5.141571. Green paper available at: https://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:b0f9254d-ffe2-4a98-bed9-f11442aedd8c.
  • Antonini, A., M. Bushnell, C. Ohge, F. Benatti, A. Adamou, and S. Brooker. 2023. ‘Hypertext as Method: Reflections on Hypertext as Design Logic’, HT '23: Proceedings of the 34th ACM Conference on Hypertext and Social Media, ed. by C. Hargood (New York, NY: Association for Computing Machinery), https://doi.org/10.1145/3603163.3609074.
  • Bushnell, M. 2021. ‘Reconstructing Gavin Douglas's Translation Practice in the Eneados Using a Corpus Linguistic-Based Method’, DH Benelux Online 3, 1-25, http://dx.doi.org/10.17613/p3z7-4c05.