Conclusion: The future of digital editing and publishing

Sophie Whittle is a Research Associate on 'C21 Editions: Editing and Publishing in the Digital Age' project, responsible for developing a prototype online teaching edition of Geoffrey Chaucer’s Pardoner’s Prologue and Tale using machine assisted methods. Sophie has taught on modules in the history of English, historical pragmatics, research methods and syntax. She has co-ordinated interdisciplinary workshops on centring anti-racist research in the linguistics curric-ulum, inviting speakers from across the globe to present their research on the pragmatics of postcolonial communities, language and culture sharing and human rights, and has since become a member of the Linguistic Association of Great Britain’s racial justice subcommittee. She is also an organiser at the Sheffield Feminist Archive, and has recently contributed to the creation of a digital archive named 'Women in Lockdown', a project that houses women’s stories and experiences of the pandemic via oral history, testimony, diary entries and artwork submissions.