Curriculum Vitae

• Ph.D., English and American Literature, New York University, May 2003.
• Ph.D., Middle English Literature, De Montfort University, January 2003.
• M. Phil., English and American Literature, New York University, New York, NY, May 2000.
• M.A., English and American Literature, Boston University, Boston, MA, May 1997.
• Licenciature in Letters, Universidad Católica Andrés Bello (U.C.A.B.), Caracas, Venezuela, 1993.
• Institute for Historical Research, London -MASTER (Manuscript Access through Standards for Electronic Records) Workshop- June 21-22, 2001. De Montfort University -Anastasia Workshop- May 2002.

• Director, Institute for Textual Scholarship and Electronic Editing, University of Birmingham, 2005-present.
• Research Fellow, Canterbury Tales Project, 1999-present.
• Research Fellow, Cancioneros Project, 2004-present.
• General Editor, Variants, European Society for Textual Scholarship, 2006-present.

• Postgraduate Welfare Officer, Department of Theology and Religion, University of Birmingham, 2006-2008.
• Deputy Director, Institute for Textual Scholarship and Electronic Editing, University of Birmingham, 2005-2006.
• Research Fellow, Cancioneros Project, Centre for Technology and the Arts, De Montfort University, 2004-2005.
• Research Fellow, Canterbury Tales Project, CTA, De Montfort University, 1999-2005.
• Research Officer, STEMMA Project, CTA, De Montfort University, 2000-2003.
• Editorial Assistant, "Victorian Literature and Culture"/ "The Wordsworth Circle," New York University, 1998-1999.
• Assistant Editor, Así es Caracas, Diagrama Editorial, Caracas, Venezuela, 1992-1994.
• Research Assistant, Diccionario de Venezolanismos, Professors Francisco Javier Pérez and Rocío Núñez, Instituto de Investigaciones Lingüísticas y Literarias (Institute of Linguistic and Literary Research) U.C.A.B., 1992-1993.
• Editorial Assistant, Separata Universitaria de Letras (Scholarly publication), U.C.A.B., 1989-1993.
• Editorial Intern, Pandora Magazine (published by the newspaper El Nacional), Caracas, Venezuela, 1988-1989.

• School of Historical Studies, Department of Theology and Religion, University of Birmingham, 2005. Research Methods, Autumn 2005, 2010. The Book in the Electronic Age, Autumn 2005, 2010.
• School of English and Performing Arts, De Montfort University, 2000-2003.
  PERF 2501 Performance Theory, Spring 2005.
  ENGL 1007/1 Reading English: Introductory course on close reading, Autumn 2003.
  ENG 2043 Special Author: Geoffrey Chaucer. A senior undergraduate course, which I have assisted since Spring 2000.
  AMER 1052 Imagining America: Literature and Film. Introductory course on American literature and culture focused on nineteenth and twentieth century literature, Autumn 2002.
  ENG 3065 English in the Workplace. A final year module, designed to allow students to experience the use of English related skills in different work environments, Autumn 2001.
  ENG 1003 British Literature Survey. Introductory course covering English literature from Chaucer to Blake, Autumn 2000.
• Centre for Technology and the Arts, De Montfort University
  STEMMA Workshop: Phylogenetic Analysis Applied to the Study of Texts (April 2003).
  Collate Workshop (June 2002).
• Servidiomas, Caracas, Venezuela, 1997. Professor of Spanish.

• The Parzival Project, edited by Michael Stolz, 2005- present.
• The Bravo Project, directed by Lance Schachterle, 2004-present.
• The Electronic Teseida, edited by William Coleman and Edvige Agostinelly, 2004-present.
• The Clerk Project, directed by David Hoover and Martha Rust, 2003-present.
• The Pardoner's Tale Project, directed by Gabrielle Muller-Oberhauser, 2000-present.
• The Monarchia Project, directed by Prue James, 2003. Tagging design and elaboration of transcription and encoding systems.
• The Commedia Project, directed by Prue James, 2000-2003. Tagging design and elaboration of transcription and encoding systems.

• Theoretical aspects of textual criticism, especially computerized methods applied to the study of texts.
• Scholarly editing, particularly the possibilities offered by electronic editions.
• Design and elaboration of transcription and enconding systems of primary textual sources.
• De Montfort University Ph.D.: "The Manuscript Source of Caxton's Second Edition of the Canterbury Tales and its Place in the Textual Tradition of the Tales." First supervisor: Professor Peter Robinson. Second supervisor: Professor Norman F. Blake.
• New York University Ph.D.: "The Phylogeny of the Order in the Canterbury Tales." Thesis director: Professor David Hoover. Supervisory team: Professor Mary Carruthers and Professor Martha D. Rust.

• Collaborative Research Networks in Communication and Communication Technology Grant. Philological Disciplines and Digital Technology, University of Birmingham, September 2006.
• European Science Foundation Grant. Philological Disciplines and Digital Technology, Castelvecchio/ Pascoli, Italy, September 2003.
• University Bursary to write a thesis entitled "The Manuscript Source of Caxton's Second Edition of the Canterbury Tales and its Place in the Textual Tradition of the Tales." De Montfort University, 1999-2002.
• Travel Grant. De Montfort University, January 2002.
• Young Scholars Award. Association for Literary and Linguistic Computing, June 2001.
• Travel Grant. De Montfort University, January, 2001.
• Small grant. Award towards purchase of microfilms in connection with the work on Caxton's second edition of the Canterbury Tales. The Bibliographical Society, U.K., February 2000.
• Travel Grant. De Montfort University, January 2000.
• Assistantship granted through the English Department, New York University, 1998-1999.
• Travel Grant. New York University, October 1998.
• Credit-Grant for M.A./ Ph.D. studies, Fundación Gran Mariscal de Ayacucho, Caracas, Venezuela, 1996-1998.

Spanish, English. Advanced: Italian. Reading ability: French.

Modern Language Association, Society for Textual Scholarship, New Chaucer Society, Medieval Academy of America, Association for Literary and Linguistic Computing, European Society for Textual Scholarship (founder member, board member), Early Book Society.

• Barbara Bordalejo, ed. The Franklin's Tale on CD-ROM. Birmingham: Scholarly Digital Editions (forthcoming).
• Barbara Bordalejo, "When Publishing is not Printing and the Book is not a Codex: Transitional Models for Electronic Editions" in The Lives of the Book, eds. David ten Eyck, Natalie Colle and Monica Latham (forthcoming).
• Barbara Bordalejo. "La estética del horror: Edmund Burke, el horror tradicional y H. P. Lovecraft" in Cuadernos del Abismo, edited by David Hernández de la Fuente. Literaturas.Com: Madrid 2008.
• Barbara Bordalejo. "Part and Whole in the Textual Tradition of the Canterbury Tales." Linguistica Computazionale (forthcoming).
• Barbara Bordalejo. "The The Text of Caxton's Second Edition of the Canterbury Tales." International Journal of English Studies 5-2 (2005): 133-148.
• Barbara Bordalejo, ed. Caxton's Canterbury Tales: The British Library Copies. Leicester: Scholarly Digital Editions, 2003.

• Barbara Bordalejo and Peter Robinson, eds. The Merchant's Tale on CD-ROM. Birmingham: Scholarly Digital Editions (forthcoming).
• Paul Thomas (Editor) with Barbara Bordalejo (Assistant Editor). The Nun's Priest's Tale on CD-ROM. Birmingham: Scholarly Digital Editions, 2006.
• Spencer, M., Mooney, L.R., Barbrook, A.C., Bordalejo, B., Howe, C.J. and Robinson, P. "The Effects of Weighting Kinds of Variants" in Studies in Stemmatology Volume II, Kinds of Variants, eds Pieter van Reenen, August den Hollander and Margot van Mulken, with the assistance of Annelies Roeleveld. Amsterdam: John Benjamins, 2004.
• Peter Robinson (Editor) with Barbara Bordalejo and Orietta Da Rold (Assistant Editors). The Miller's Tale on CD-ROM. Leicester: Scholarly Digital Editions, 2004.
• Spencer, M., Bordalejo, B., Wang, L.-S., Barbrook, A.C., Mooney, L.R., Robinson, P., Warnow, T. and Howe, C.J. "Analyzing the Order of Items in Manuscripts of The Canterbury Tales." Computers and the Humanities 37 (2003): 97-109.
• Christopher Howe, Linne Mooney, Peter Robinson, Barbara Bordalejo and Matthew Spencer. "Manuscript Evolution" Trends in Genetics 17-3 (2001): 147- 152 (reprinted in Endeavour).

• In Progress

• The Online Variorum of On the Origin of Species, to be published in conjunction with Darwin Online (a free for all web publication).
• Bibliobiography: The Study of Texts, Books and Documents in the 21st Century (single authorship book).

• "Dispelling Myths about Caxton," STS, March 2009, New York, U.S.A.
• "The (Relative) Importance of Variants in the Canterbury Tales," New Chaucer Society, July 2008, Swansea, UK.
• "When Publishing is not Printing and the Book is not a Codex: Transitional Models for Electronic Editions," The Lives of the Book, June 2008, Nancy, France.
• "Publication Models for Digital Editions of Medieval Works," 42th International Congress on Medieval Studies, May 2008, Kalamazoo, MI. U.S.A.
• "La estética del horror: Edmund Burke, el horror tradicional y H. P. Lovecraft," El horror sobrenatural: mito y literatura desde el otro lado, April 2007, Madrid, Spain.
• "Electronic Editions for Everyone," (with Peter Robinson), London Seminar on Digital Textual Scholarship, April 2007, London, UK. STS, March 2007, New York, USA.
• "The Parliament Rolls of Medieval England, What Next?" April 2007, London, UK." STS, March 2007, New York, USA.
• "Old Books, New Books and the Definition of Bibliography for the 21st Century," STS, March 2007, New York, USA.
• "The Marks on the Page," January 2007, London, UK
• "The Bibliographical Description of Electronic Books" ESTS Conference, November 2006, London, UK.
• "Textos medievales para el siglo XXI: ediciones eletrónicas y la nueva crítica textual" VII Jornadas de Estudios Medievales, September 2006, Buenos Aires, Argentina.
• "Does Adam Pinkhurst Matter?" Fifteenth International Congress of the New Chaucer Society, July 2006, New York, NY, U.S.A.
• "As We May Read Chaucer." (with Peter Robinson) Fifteenth International Congress of the New Chaucer Society, July 2006, New York, NY, U.S.A.
• "So You Want to Start Your Electronic Book?" 41th International Congress on Medieval Studies, May 2006, Kalamazoo, MI, U.S.A.
• "The Cancioneros Project." Society of Hispanists of Great Britain Conference, April 2006, Liverpool, UK.
• "E-Origin: A Genetic Edition of the On Origin of Species." Darwin Day, February 2006, Birmingham, UK.
• "The First Printer of the Canterbury Tales." Second International Conference of the European Society for Textual Scholarship, December 2005, Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
• "Textual Criticism and the Impact of Electronic Editions" Digital Resources for the Humanities, September 2005, Lancaster, UK.
• "Corrections and Additions in Bodley 686." Early Book Society Conference, July 2005, Belfast, Northern Ireland.
• "Authorship, Authority and the Editing of the Canterbury Tales." 40th International Congress on Medieval Studies, May 2005, Kalamazoo, MI, U.S.A.
• "New Testament Textual Criticism and Textual Criticism." April 2005, Birmingham, UK.
• "Twelve Years of the Canterbury Tales Project: Technical and Ideological Changes." International Interdisciplinary Conference (STS), March 2005, New York, NY, U.S.A.
• "An Electronic Edition of James Fenimore Cooper's The Bravo." International Interdisciplinary Conference (STS), March 2005, New York, NY, U.S.A.
• "Being Edited by a Text in Multiple Versions." First International Conference of the European Society for Textual Scholarship, November 2004, Alicante, Spain.
• "Vertical Collation: Manual and Digital." Colloquium on the History of the Book and Digitisation, November 2004, Nowton Court, UK.
• "Part and Whole in the Textual Transmission of the Canterbury Tales." Textual Criticism and Genetics- Confronting Methods, September 2004, Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium.
• "Is there a Job in this Text?" 39th International Congress on Medieval Studies, May 2004, Kalamazoo, MI, U.S.A
• "The New Stemmatics." MLA Conference, December 2003, San Diego, CA, U.S.A.
• "The Text of the Canterbury Tales and Caxton's Second Edition." SELIM Conference, October 2003, Murcia, Spain.
• "Editing Texts Preserved in Multiple Non-Authorial Documents." Philological Disciplines and Digital Technology (EURESCO), September 2003, Castelvecchio/ Pascoli, Italy.
• "What Now for the Canterbury Tales Project?" Early Book Society Conference, August 2003, Durham, UK.
• "What is the New Stemmatics?" New Technologies, Old Texts, July 2003, Leicester, England.
• "Tagging for Textual Critical Purposes." ALLC/ACH Conference, May 2003, Athens, Georgia.
• "The New Stemmatics and the Editing of Medieval Texts." 37th International Congress on Medieval Studies, May 2002, Kalamazoo, MI, U.S.A.
• "New Directions in Editing: The New Stemmatics." International Interdisciplinary Conference (STS), March 2003, New York, NY, U.S.A.
• "A New Tagging System: Indicating Levels of Correction" Irsee, March 2003, Irsee, Germany.
• "We Will Rock You." New Chaucer Society, August 2002, Boulder, CO, U.S.A.
• "Everything You Wanted to Know About the Canterbury Tales Project's Editions and Never Dared to Ask: The Making of The Miller's Tale on CD-ROM." ALLC/ACH Conference, July 2002, Tubingen, Germany.
• "Textual Affiliations of the Variants in Caxton's Second Edition of the Canterbury Tales" SHARP, July 2002, London, UK.
• "The Textual Affiliations of Caxton's Second Edition of the Canterbury Tales." De Montfort/Birmingham Seminar, July 2002, Leicester, UK.
• "Tagging the Divine Comedy." Commedia Project, May 2002, Paestum, Italy.
• "Variants: What Do We Do with Them Now that We Have Them?" 37th International Congress on Medieval Studies, May 2002, Kalamazoo, MI, U.S.A.
• "The Miller's Tale on CD-ROM." De Montfort University Postgraduate Conference, March 2002, Leicester, UK
• "Tagging for Textual Critical Purposes." Institut fuer Neutestamentliche Textforschung, Westfaelische Wilhelms-Universitaet Muenster, March 2002, Germany.
• "The Franklin's Prologue and the Nun's Priest's Endlink in Caxton's Second Edition of the Canterbury Tales." Early Book Society Conference; July 2001, Cork, Ireland.
• "What Can Bibliography Tell Us? The Physical Aspects of Caxton's Second Edition of the Canterbury Tales." International Medieval Congress; July 2001, Leeds, UK.
• "The Order of the Canterbury Tales: Praxis of Computer Analysis." ALLC/ACH Conference, June 2001, New York, NY, U.S.A.
• "The Order of the Canterbury Tales and Caxton's Second Edition." 36th International Congress on Medieval Studies, May 2001, Kalamazoo, MI, U.S.A.
• "Graphetic Transcription: Its Problems and a Solution." International Interdisciplinary Conference (STS), April 2001, New York, NY, U.S.A.
• "William Caxton as Editor." European Society for the Study of English, September 2000, Helsinki, Finland.
• "William Caxton: the Printer and the Editor." De Montfort University Postgraduate Conference, March 2000, Leicester, UK
• "Textual History and the Character of Alexander the Great in the Anglo-Saxon Letter from Alexander to Aristotle and the Libro de Alexandre." 34th International Congress on Medieval Studies, May 1999, Kalamazoo, MI, U.S.A
• "Naturally, a Manuscript: Change of Meaning in the use of a Medieval Topos." 13th International Conference on Medievalism, October 1998, Rochester, NY, U.S.A.
• "Being and Substance in Aristotle's Metaphysics." Fourth National Congress of Philosophy. Published in the Congress' Proceedings. October 1994, Mérida, Venezuela