Jennifer Edmond

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 leads the Horizon Europe Knowledge Technologies for Democracy (KT4D) project. 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).