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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.  Prior to this, 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 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.

This year (2024-25), Megan is contributing to courses and workshops on digital scholarly editing, text alignment, and OCR.  Previously, she has taught on subjects such as language varieties and medieval poetry.

Selected publications:  

  • Bushnell, M. In press. ‘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.
  • Bushnell, M. In press. ‘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).
  • 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.