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Curriculum Vitae
Giovanni Pietro Vitali
Associate Professor in Digital Humanities
University of Versailles Saint Quentin en Yvelines – Paris-Saclay University
Nationality:
Italian
Date of birth:
28 May 1982
Address:
16, Rue de Champagne 86000 – Poitiers
Telephone:
+33 7 82 64 01 10
Email:
giovannipietrovitali@gmail.com | giovanni.vitali@uvsq.fr
Skype:
koine82
Twitter:
@gipivu
Github:
https://github.com/digitalkoine
Academia:
https://ucc-ie.academia.edu/GiovanniPietroVitali
ResearchGate:
https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Giovanni_Vitali
Orcid:
https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2722-6766
LINGUISTIC SKILLS
Writing
Speaking
Comprehension
Production
Comprehension
Production
French
C2
C1
C2
C1
English
C2
C1
C2
C1
Spain
C1
C1
C1
C1
Portuguese
B1
A2
B2
A2
Italian
Native speaker
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Research
My research activities reflect my highly interdisciplinary background, which began with my double course of study, literary
and linguistic-philological, obtained as part of a dual doctoral program between France and Italy. As a result, my scientific
production is focused on several themes that appear different, but are all grounded in the same approach. In fact, what
interests me most is to study the relationships between artistic productions, social movements and political positions.
This is why analysing the texts of violent conflicts—such as the two world wars, as well as ideological and cultural
conflicts—are at the core of my work. The disciplines I have covered so far are literature, linguistics (particularly
sociolinguistics), dialectology, onomastics, and digital humanities. In my research, I have practiced historical analysis or
applied a methodological approach such as that of Cultural Studies. My work occurs after the corpus has been created,
after the text has been digitally analysed and before the data is represented. My first specialization in computer science
is data visualisation: I am a specialist in digital cartography, GIS (Geographic Information Systems), network analysis. I
have programming skills in Python and JavaScript, but my environment of choice is R.
Research Projects
2020
Université
Paris IV
Sorbonne
Postdoctoral Researcher
Project: eBalzac (French National Research Agency)
The eBalzac project aims to develop digital humanities research on the work of Honoré de
Balzac. It is structured around three axes: electronic publishing, genetic study and the study
of hypertext.
Website
2018
2020
Marie Skłodowska Curie Action European Fellow
Project: Last Letters from the World Wars: Forming Italian Language, Identity and Memory in
Texts of Conflict
University
College Cork
(Ireland)
This is my main research project. It aims to analyse the language and themes of the last letters
written by people who were executed during WWI and WWII.
Email | Website | YouTube | Facebook | Twitter
2018
2020
University of
Oxford
Associated Researcher - Creative Multilingualism Program
Project: Prismatic Jane Eyre
I am an Associate Researcher in the Creative Multilingualism program at the University of
Oxford, where I am in charge of the digital humanities section of the Prismatic Jane Eyre
project, which aims to analyse translations, taking Charlotte Brönte’s novel Jane Eyre as a case
study.
Website & Personal page
2019
2020
National
Institute
Ferruccio Parri
in Milan
Freelance Researcher
Project: Antifascisti di Spagna [Antifascists of Spain]
I worked on a project, Antifascisti di Spagna [Spanish Antifascists], at the Ferruccio Parri
National Institute, the main centre of a network of Institutes on the History of the Italian
Resistance and Contemporary Society in Italy. I was in charge of geospatial visualisations
tracking Italian anti-fascists’ migration to join the Spanish Civil War.
Website & Credits’ page.
2012
2013
University for
Foreigners of
Perugia
Contractual Researcher
Project: Lingua e cultura Italiana in Rete per l'Apprendimento [Glotto-didactics of Italian
Language on the web]
I worked on a ministerial research project in the FIRB programme (Italian Foundation for
Research), in cooperation with the Universities of Verona, Bologna and Modena-Reggio Emilia.
This was a research fellowship on a project regarding Italian online pragmatic competence.
Website
2011
2014
University of
Pisa
Cultore della Materia en Linguistique générale [University Assistant]
Project : Onomastica e Letteratura [Onomastics and Literature]
Research associate in the activities of the scientific association O&L, Onomastics and
Literature: organization of symposiums, direction of research work by students of the course
of General Linguistics (Master of Letters, University of Pisa) and research work on a project
of onomastic cataloguing of Italian neo-realist literature: this project was the starting point
for the doctoral thesis “Fenoglio and his names: An almost neorealist onomastic”
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Research Unit
Dynamiques patrimoniales et culturelles
[Heritage and cultural dynamics]
University of Versailles Saint Quentin en Yvelines – Paris-Saclay University
Research Awards
2020
Centre for Advanced Studies in Languages and Cultures (9 October 2020)
Official award from the University College Cork for the best researcher committed to the
dissemination of knowledge through Open Source, among the staff of the university.
Open
Researcher
of the Year
Centre for Advanced Studies in Languages and Cultures (Ireland- January)
Scholarship for the organization of the final conference of the Last Letters project.
500 €
2019
Waldensian Church (Italy - September)
Grant to disseminate the texts founded during Last Letters research in pedagogical activities in
Milan high-schools. This project is a collaboration with the Teatro della Cooperativa, the third
biggest theatre in Milan: link
9.705,99€
AIPI - International Association for Italian Professor
Prize for the best summer school project Codificare, Analizzare, Diffondere [Encoding,
Exploitation, Diffusion of texts] which took place in Verona from 16 to 19 July 2019: link.
4.000 €
AIUCD - Italian Association of Digital Humanities
Award for the best summer school project Codificare, Analizzare, Diffondere [Encoding, Exploitation,
Diffusion of texts] which took place in Verona from 16 to 19 July 2019: link.
1.500 €
Centre for Advanced Studies in Languages and Cultures (Ireland December)
Subvention for the organization of training events about Digital Humanities.
1.000 €
2014
UFI - Italian-French University
Award for the best pedagogic project between France and Italy. It was a combined Bachelor’s and
Master’s course between the University for Foreigners of Perugia and the University of Lorraine
30.000 €
Fellowships
2019
German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD)
Fellowship for participants of the European Summer University in Digital Humanities at the University
of Leipzig. Grant to cover the school fees.
1.000 €
(approx.)
2018
European Commission - Research and Innovation Horizon 2020
Marie Skłodowska-Curie actions - Research Individual Fellowship for the project Last Letters from the
World Wars: Forming Italian Language, Identity and Memory in Texts of Conflict.
188.000€
German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD)
Fellowship for participants of the European Summer University in Digital Humanities at the University
of Leipzig. Grant to cover the school fees.
1.000 €
(approx.)
2016
CLARIN-D Research Institute
Fellowship for participants of the European Summer University in Digital Humanities at the University
of Leipzig. Grant to cover the school fees.
1.000 €
(approx.)
2014
UFI - Italian-French University
Aide à la mobilité (Chapitre II) pour les doctorants en cotutelle de thèse entre la France et l’Italie.
4.500 €
Membership of scientific societies
2019
2020
Scientific Director of the Rifrazioni collection of comparative studies of the Tab Edizioni publishing house.
Founder of the scientific and pedagogical collective ABCDH, which aims to disseminate culture and digital
tools for research in humanities
Reviewer of the Scientific periodical Humanités Numériques, an academic journal of the of the French Digital
Humanities scientific community.
Reviewer of the Scientific periodical Digital Scholarship in the Humanities, an academic journal of
theUniversity of Oxford specialised in Digital Humanities.
2018
2020
Reviewer of the Scientific periodical DH Benelux journal, an academic journal of the Benelux specialised in
Digital Humanities.
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Member of the Research Unit MIMMOC (Memories, Identities, Marginalities, in West World) of University of
Poitiers.
2017
Reviewer of the Scientific periodical Umanistica Digitale, an academic journal of the University of Bologna
specialised in Digital Humanities.
2016
2020
Member of the Italian Association for the Digital Humanities (AIUCD).
Member of the European Association for Digital Humanities (EADH).
Member of Italian Studies Society (SIES), French University Association for Italian Studies.
Member of the Society of Italian Studies (SIS), English and Irish University Association for Italian Studies.
2015
2018
Member of The International Council of Onomastics Sciences (ICOS), International Association of Onomastic
Studies.
2014
2017
Member of the American Association for Italian Studies (AAIS)
2013
2017
Member of the of the Research Unit LIS (Literature, Imaginary et Societies, EA 7305 (University of Lorraine).
2012
2019
Regular member of Italian Onomastics and Literature Association (O&L) for the study of literature by
onomastics analysis.
Publications
Monographs
[M1] G. P. Vitali, Voices of Dissent. Interdisciplinary Approaches to New Italian Popular and Political Music (Oxford:
Peter Lang: 2020), 394.
Edited Volumes
[C1] Bertrand Westphal, Giovanni Pietro Vitali, Carola Farci, Francesco Calzolaio, Elian Yains, Mehdi Alizadeh (ed.),
Espaces de conflit et textes de guerre (Limoges : Presses Universitaires de Limoges, 2020). Forthcoming 2021.
[C2] Giovanni Pietro Vitali, Rachel Monteil, Il caso di Malaparte e Pratolini [Titre provisoire] (Florence: Florence
University Press, 2020). Forthcoming 2021.
Chapters in Edited Volumes
[R6] G. P. Vitali, ‘On a chanté vos batailles. Les conflits sud-américains dans la musique de The Clash, Manu Chao et
Modena City Ramblers’, in Bertrand Westphal, Giovanni Pietro Vitali, Carola Farci, Francesco Calzolaio, Elian Yains, Mehdi
Alizadeh (ed.), Espaces de conflit et textes de guerre. Une géographie des oppositions (Limoges : Presses Universitaires de
Limoges, 2020). Forthcoming 2021.
[R5] G. P. Vitali, ‘Le ultime lettere di Primo Levi e i suoi compagni ad ogni passo verso Auschwitz’, in Paolo Rigo, Laura
Toppan and Maria Antonietta Garullo, (ed.), Scolpitele nel vostro cuore. Primo Levi a cento anni dalla sua nascita (Roma:
Ensemble, 2020).
[R4] G. P. Vitali, ‘Réécrire la guerre, cultiver le futur : L’Homme qui plantait des arbres de Giono et ses adaptations
contemporaines’, in Danièle Henky (ed.), 14/18 Dramatisation du récit de guerre (2018, <hal-01808439>).
[R3] G. P. Vitali, ‘L’onomastica nella letteratura neorealista’, in Maria Pia Marchese, Alberto Nocentini (ed.), Il lessico
nella teoria e nella storia linguistica, (Florence : Il Calamo, 2014), 261-265.
[R2] G. P. Vitali, ‘I partigiani di Fenoglio tra realtà e recezione’, in Manlio Calegari, Marco Codebò (ed.), Lo spirito della
Resistenza (Genova : Istituto Ligure per la storia della Resistenza e dell’età contemporanea, 2014, pp. 96-107.
[R1] G. P. Vitali, ‘Note di onomastica pratoliniana’, Maria Carla Papini, Gloria Manghetti, Teresa Spignoli (ed.), Vasco
Pratolini (1913-2013), (Florence : Olschki, 2015), 299-313.
Articles
Revues
[A9] G. P. Vitali, ‘Visualising Second World War Violence through an Atlas of Nazi-Fascist Repression’, DSH - Digital
Scholarship in the Humanities 34/4 (2020), Forthcoming 2021.
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[A8] G. P. Vitali, ‘Un viaje gráfico de crítica política: Análisis geográfico-temático de los diseños de Eneko de Las Heras
en los periódicos Interviú y 20 Minutos’, Artl@s Bulletin 8/2 (2019), 87-110.
[A7] G. P. Vitali, ‘Il dialetto e la sua assenza nei romanzi di Beppe Fenoglio’, Italian Studies 73:3 (2018), 321-337.
[A6] G. P. Vitali, ‘Rethinking Rome as an Anthology: The Poeti Der Trullo’s Street Poetry’, Umanistica Digitale 3 (2018),
105-136.
[A5] G. P. Vitali, ‘La tensione antieroica dei personaggi fenogliani’, Gentes 2 (2015), 118-122.
[A4] G. P. Vitali, ‘La lingua del lago di Davide Van de Sfroos’, Gentes 1 (2014), 55-60.
[A3] G. P. Vitali, ‘I nomi di Il partigiano Johnny’, il Nome nel testo XV (2013), 417-428.
[A2] G. P. Vitali, ‘L’onomastica antieroica della città di Alba’, il Nome nel testo XIV (2012), 359-372.
[A1] G. P. Vitali, ‘L’elemento storico e cronachistico delle scelte onomastiche di Vasco Pratolini’, il Nome nel testo, XII
(2010), 445-54.
Actes de colloques ou journées d’étude
[P5] G. P. Vitali, ‘What is a last letter? A Linguistic/Preventive Analysis of Prisoner Letters from the Two World Wars’,
Quaderni di Umanistica Digitale (2020), 265-272.
[P4] G. P. Vitali et Simon Gabay, ‘A Theatre of Places: Mapping 17
th
French theatre’, ACM-GIR’19.
[P3] G. P. Vitali, ‘L’autre néoréalisme dans la nominatio de Pavese, Fenoglio et Vittorini’, Carole Hough, Daria Izdebska
(ed.), Names and Their Environment, v. 5 (Glasgow : University of Glasgow Press, 2016), 67-77.
[P2] G. P. Vitali, ‘ The importance of names’ signifiers in Vasco Pratolini’s novels’, Biblioteca Tècnica de Política
Lingüística 11 (2014), 2336-2343.
[P1] G. P. Vitali, ‘Il mélange privato della questione letteraria nei testi di Beppe Fenoglio’, Aldo Maria Morace et Alessio
Giannanti (sous la direction de), La letteratura nella letteratura (Pisa : ETS, 2016), 275-285.
Digital works
Websites and digital platforms
[D12] Prismatic Jane (website), 2019.
[D11] Last Letters (website), 2018.
[D10] Last Letters YouTube channel, 2018.
Digital maps
[D9] Atlas of Nazi-Fascist Repression, 2019: Thematic & Chronological..
[D8] Map of 17
th
-century French theatre, 2019.
[D7] Los lugares en los dibujos de Eneko de Las Heras, 2019.
[D] Spatial edition of the last letters of people were executed during World War Two, 2018.
[D5] Map of the poems written on the walls of Rome by the Poeti Der Trullo, 2018.
D4] Map of the Italian antifascists who fought in Spanish Civil War and the archives where their information are
collected, 2018.
Teaching units
[D3] G. P. Vitali, Italiano e dialetti, Firb-Lira, 01/1/2013.
[D2] G. P. Vitali, Italiano e media, Firb-Lira, 01/1/2013.
[D1] M. Donati, G. P. Vitali, Al lavoro, Firb-Lira, 01/1/2013.
Review
[R1] G. P. Vitali, ‘il Nome nel testo’, Revue des études italiennes 1-4 (2013), 286-288.
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Seminars, Conferences and Trainings
Research events organisation
Organised Conferences
24-25
April 2021
Writing the World Wars - University College Cork (Ireland)
Final conference of Last Letters Marie Curie project: link.
6 December
2019
Elena Ferrante, Authorship and Style - University College Cork (Ireland)
Roundtable entitled ‘Elena Ferrante, Authorship and Style. A Conversation between Digital Humanities
and Literary Criticism.’ This event aimed to be a comparison between Digital Humanities and Gender
studies approaches to Ferrante’s analysis: link.
15 June
2018
Espaces de conflit et textes de guerre - University of Limoges (France)
Symposium dedicated to geo-criticism with its creator Prof. Bertrand Westphal. The day consisted of
an exchange on the representation of war in several literary genres: link.
23-24 March
2017
Des Toscans sur tous les fronts - University of Lorraine (Nancy - France)
Cycle of conferences dedicated to Tuscan Literature and Civilisation: link.
25-26 February
2016
Les Ritals à la fac - University of Lorraine (Nancy - France)
Cycle of conferences on the YouTuber's role in the transfer of culture between different countries
designed for undergraduate and post-graduate students.
15-16 October
2015
Colloque interdisciplinaire Anachronisme - University of Lorraine (Nancy)
Inter-disciplinary congress on anachronism in Literature: link.
14-16 November
2013
XVth International Conference of Onomastics and Literature - University of Pisa (Italy)
Member of the organizing committee of the annual conference of the Association of Onomastics and
Literature: link.
11-13 November
2012
XVIth International Conference of Onomastics and Literature - University of Macerata (Italy)
Member of the organizing committee of the annual conference of the Association of Onomastics and
Literature: link.
Organised Tranings in Digital Humanities
2020
10-14
February
Winter School EnExDi (Encodage, Exploitation, Diffusion des textes) - University of Poitiers (France)
Training for Ph.D. and Post-doctoral fellows: link.
2019
4-5
December
First step in Digital Humanities – University College Cork
Trainings for University College Cork researchers: link.
16-19
July
Summer School CAD (Codificare, Analizzare, Diffondere) - University of Veron (Italy)
Training for Ph.D. and Post-doctoral fellows: link.
2-3
May
Les outils numériques au service de la recherche en sciences humaines - University of Lorraine
Trainings for University of Lorraine researchers: link.
5-7
July
Winter School EnExDi (Encodage, Exploitation, Diffusion des textes) - University of Poitiers (France)
Training for Ph.D. and Post-doctoral fellows: link.
2018
28-30
May
Travailler avec les Humanités Numériques - University of Lorraine (France)
Trainings for University of Lorraine researchers: link.
12-16
February
École d’Hiver en Philologie Numérique - University of Neuchâtel (Suisse)
Trainings for University of University of Neuchâtel: link.
Research events participation
Invited Lectures
2020
Seminaire GRIAHAL – 21 novembre 2020
Représentation des conflits sud-américains dans la musique populaire européenne
University of
Versailles-Saint-
Quentin
French Department Seminar of University College Cork – 5 March 2020
Digital Humanities or Humanités Numériques Putting French 17th century theatre in
perspective
University College
Cork
Symposium DATATHON – 5 January 2020
University of Poitiers
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L'antifascisme espagnol et italien: spatialisation des données
ATILF Seminar – 3 January 2020
La représentation numérique de l’espace dans la recherche en sciences humaines
ATILF - Nancy
Digital Humanities Symposium – 23 January 2020
Représenter la violence de la Seconde Guerre Mondiale. L’Atlas de la répression nazie et
fasciste
University of
Lorraine
Seminar of Littératures, Imaginaire, Sociétés research unit – 22 January 2020
Ce sont mes derniers mots. Les dernières lettres de Juifs et de partisans condamnés à mort
pendant le fascisme
University of
Lorraine
Seminar Series "Raccontare la resistenza" – 21 January 2020
Rileggere la Resistenza. Analisi testuali e spaziali per rileggere la seconda guerra mondiale
University of
Strasbourg
2019
Il mio terzo mestiere, Primo Levi e gli Studenti – 28 November 2019
I testimoni epistolari di Levi
Catholic University
of the Sacred Heart
DH-Lit - Digital Humanities & Literary Studies – 22 November 2019
Cartografie: Mappare l’Olanda letteraria
University of Leiden
A Research Seminar on Digital Scholarship – 21 November 2019 (afternoon)
Tools and Methods for Digital Text Analysis
Vrije Universiteit
Brussel
A Research Seminar on digital scholarship - 21 November 2019 (morning)
Last Letters from the World Wars. Analysing Texts of Conflict through a Digital Approach
Vrije Universiteit
Brussel
DH-Lit - Digital Humanities & Literary Studies – 20 November 2019
La poesia nello spazio – dalla città al digitale
University of Leuven
NYU Postgraduate Seminar – 22 September 2019
Last Letters. A linguistic and thematic analysis
New York University
Les Séminaires du CMMC – 21 Juin 2019
Last Letters. Les lettres des condamnés à mort italiens (1915-1945)
University of Nice
Sophia Antipolis
Seminario internazionale di studi su Primo Levi – 3 June 2019
La corrispondenza clandestina al tempo del fascismo. Il caso di Primo Levi tra le lettere dei
partigiani e deportati
Circolo Cittadino del
Comune di Latina
2018
UCC Digital Humanities Colloquium – 19 September 2018
Rethinking Rome as an Anthology: The Poeti der Trullo’s Street Poetry
University College
Cork
Prismatic Jane Eyre 2018 Colloquium – 10 July 2018
Digital Brontë. An overview
University of Oxford
Parcours Humanités numériques de l'ENS (École Normale Supérieure) – 3 October 2018
Visualiser et analyser les données. De la stylométrie et du traitement automatique de la
langue vers la visualisation cartographique et en réseaux
École Normale
Supérieure
NYU & PSL Digital Humanities Partnership – 7 June 2018
Re-penser Rome comme une anthologie, la Street Poetry des « Poeti der Trullo »
New York University,
Paris Campus
International Research Seminar: Les Figures de « Passeur » - 30 May 2018
Nouvelle musique populaire d’Italie et d’ailleurs : échanges et influences
University of
Lorraine
Encoding and text dissemination: winter school in Digital Humanities – 11 February 2018
Humanities Data and Mapping environments
University of
Neuchâtel
2017
International Research Seminar: « Des Toscans sur tous les fronts » - 23 March 2017
I fiorentini sono faziosi, beceri, geniali. Inchiesta pratoliniana su Firenze e la Toscana
University of
Lorraine
2014
Seminar of the Advanced Course of Italian Contemporary Language – 30 July 2014
Contaminazioni linguistiche e musicali nel genere popolare fra tradizione e innovazione
University for
Foreigners of
Perugia
2010
Seminar in Linguistic Laboratory for Foreigners of University of Pisa:
- 1 July 2010 Profilo storico della letteratura italiana
- 3 July 2010 Da Dante e Boccaccio a Vasco Pratolini
Jenco
School
Viareggio
2009
Seminar in Anteprima Cartasia – National Manifestation on Local Publishing Industry
10 September 2009 L’intreccio e il romanzo giallo | 17 September 2009 Problematiche di
linguistica letteraria | 24 September 2009 Intellettuali e potere | 1 Octobre 2009 L’ipertesto
letterario
Lucca Cultural
Foundation
Conferences
2020
Italian Association for Digital Humanities (AIUCD) – 15 July 2020
What is a last letter? A Linguistic Preventive Analysis of Prisoners’ Letters from the Two
World Wars
Catholic University of the
Sacred Heart
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2019
GIR 2019 - 7
th
Workshop on Geographic Information Retrieval – 29 November 2019
A Theatre of Places: Mapping 17
th
century French theatre
University of Lyon 1
DH2019 Digital Humanities International Conference – 11 July 2019
Mapping Fascist Repression, Following The Italian Resistance
Utrecht University
International Conference of the Society For Italian Studies – 28 June 2019
Our last words will be your heritage. Reading Italian Resistance through the last letters of
the partisans who were sentenced to death
University of Édimbourg
2018
International Conference of the Society For Italian Studies – 6 April 2018
Rethinking Rome as an Anthology, the Poeti der Trullo’s Street Poetry
University of Sussex
2016
International Conference of the Society For Italian Studies – 30 April 2016
Orizzonti lessicali di libert. Il dizionario del partigiano anonimo: quando la Resistenza
racconta la Guerra e la società
Trinity College - Dublin
2014
XXV ICOS International Congress of Onomastic Sciences – 24 July 2014
L’autre néoréalisme dans la nominatio de Pavese, Fenoglio et Vittorini
University of Glasgow
Tuscan Territories : Rural-Urban Dynamics – 19 June 2014
Vasco Pratolini da Firenze al resto del mondo
University of Monash
Congress of the American Associations for Italian Studies – 24 May 2014
I partigiani di Fenoglio tra realtà, narrativa e ricezione
University of Zurich
2013
International Congress of Studies on Vasco Pratolini – 17 October 2013
Note di onomastica pratoliniana
University of Glasgow
Congress of the Italian Society of the Literary Modernity – 13 June 2013
Il mélange privato della questione letteraria nei testi di Beppe Fenoglio
University of Sassari
Young Researcher Congress of University of Lorraine – 23 June 2013
La dimension « espace – temps » dans les ouvrages de Beppe Fenoglio (1922-1963)
University of Lorraine
2012
International Congress of the Compalit – 14 Décembre 2012
La Resistenza di Milton e Johnny tra desiderio e realtà
University of Pisa
Annual Congress of the Italian Historical Linguistics Association – 26 October 2012
L’onomastica nella letteratura neorealista
University of Florence
XVI International Congress of Onomastics and Literature (O&L) – 13 November 2012
I nomi del partigiano Johnny tra epica e realismo
University of Macerata
2011
XV International Congress of Onomastics and Literature (O&L) – 25 November 2011
L’onomastica antieroica della città di Alba
University of Pisa
XXIV ICOS International Congress of Onomastic Sciences – 5 September 2011
The importance of names’ signifiers in Vasco Pratolini’s novels
University of Barcelone
2010
XIV International Congress of Onomastics and Literature (O&L) – 17 October 2009
L’elemento storico e cronachistico nell’onomastica di Vasco Pratolini
University of Pisa
Digital Skills
Coding Languages and Source Code Editor
My training as a Digital Humanist has involved learning how to encode. As a sociolinguist, I first focused on Python and R
to produce speech analysis for my studies. Later, I got interested in cartographic and visual analysis and I started to
approach JavaScript, and then I adapted my knowledge of R and Python to the cartographic and graphical visualization of
my research. One of the starting points of my training was clearly the XML-TEI markup that I use in my workflow, especially
for the recognition and association of attributes to certain categories of speech such as proper names, including
anthroponyms and toponyms:
Coding and markup Languages: html & css, xml-TEI, JavaScript, Python, R
Editeur et Environnement de développement: Brackets, Sublime, Atom, Oxygen, XML Editor, RStudio
Dissemination of Contents Online
Internet is important for teaching activities and, also, for research purposes. Over time I have learned to use services that
are important for university activities:
Html et CSM
GitHub: Web hosting and management service for software and application development. Use of Git decentralized
version management.
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Moodle : Creation of interactive teaching materials.
Conftool & Sciencesconf : Tools for organizing and managing scientific events.
Digital Humanities specialities
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My digital specialties are related to my expertise as a humanist. My interdisciplinary approach is reflected in my computer
training because my digital learning was based on my needs as a researcher and teacher. All these skills were acquired in
the framework of specific training courses and therefore certified by training institutions.
- My linguistic-literary approach led me to turn to the tools that are typical of Natural Language Processing (NLP),
discourse and stylometric analysis.
- My inclination for historical research and socio-political topics has led me to deepen my knowledge of spatial and
chronological analysis through the acquisition of skills in data visualization.
- Moreover, after obtaining a specific degree related to the publishing sector, I gradually honed my skills in graphic design
and audiovisual editing. The aim was to learn how to use the tools that I would need for my teaching activities, but also
for the dissemination of my research results and the publicisation of the scientific activities I have organized over the
years.
Natual Language Processing | Discourse analysis | Stylometry
My preferred programming environment is R, and I use packages such as Udpipe for computer language analysis or Stylo
for Stylometry. I also master alternatives to Python such as Wordnet Lemmatizer, Spacy Lemmatizer, Stanford CoreNLP,
and Gensim Lemmatizer. Beyond the use of such code-based tools, I also find useful some software for lexical analysis,
especially when teaching to non-specialists.
Coding
Languages
Software
Applications
Lemmatisers
R
Python
TXM
Maxqda
Taltac
WordSmith
CasualConc
Voyant
Tools
Sketch
Engine
TreeTagger
Udpipe
Digital Mapping
Digital mapping is one of my main specialties. Since I started working with digital tools, I have addressed spatial and
cartographic issues because my research on historical and political issues has important geocritical implications. Of all the
disciplines typical of the digital humanities, cartography is the one that combines the most digital tools to create
meaningful visualizations. My point of reference is still Leaflet and programming in JavaScript and R, which again remains
my preferred development environment.
Langages et services
Logiciels
Applications
R
JavaScript
QGIS
ArcGis
Carto
uMap
Recogito
StoryMaps Js
MapWarper
GeoJson.io
Leaflet
Network Analysis
Network analysis is another type of approach to data visualization that I find extremely useful for the analysis of data that
are typical of social sciences and humanities. I often use it in conjunction with geographic analysis, combining the benefits
of geocriticism with the study of relationships between elements. I am specialised in the use of Gephi and I alternate this
type of analysis with the use of R. In fact, some packages that allow the visualization of data in relation to each other such
as SNA, TSNA and NDTV, are used in the analysis of temporal networks in historical studies. One of the areas I apply this
type of studies to is social network analysis. Data mining on the Internet is another of my main interests and I have
recently been involved in web data mining, as I worked with the tools provided by Digital Method Initiative (Netherlands)
or MyWebIntelligence (France).
Langages
Logiciels
Applications
R
Gephi
https://wiki.digitalmethods.net/
https://mywebintelligence.net/
Graphics
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This section is a summary of my digital specialties. This list of languages, software and applications is not exhaustive but representative of my main
computer expertise.
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I started working in graphic design during my second bachelor's degree, where I acquired skills in publishing, including a
knowledge of Adobe software, especially Photoshop, InDesign and Illustrator.
Gimp & Inkscape
Pack Adobe Photoshop, Dreamweaver, Illustrator et Indesign
Audio and Video Editing
Audio-video editing is one of the activities that I learned first as a semi-professional musician and then put to use in
didactics at the University of Lorraine, and later in my Marie Curie project. I disseminated the results of my research
through a YouTube channel dedicated to popularizing it to the general public.
Audio Editing
I think audio editing is necessary for anyone involved in teaching. The dissemination of audio material in the form of
podcasts is an example of what can be used to reinforce teaching in a department. The tool I prefer using is Logic Pro
because it integrates perfectly with my main machine which is a Mac, but for teaching I have always used Audacity which
is an open source multi-platform and which gives excellent results.
Multiplatform
Mac Os
OpenSource
Logic Pro
Audacity
Pro Tools
Video Editing
Video is one of the most powerful tools that can be used in multimedia communication and I have already worked several
times on video editing for research projects such as Prismatic Jane Eyre, a project whose digital content I am responsible
for, or Last Letters, my Marie Curie project. After trying a few options of open source software and Adobe Premier, I also
chose a product available in a Mac version called Final Cut, which I think is the best program for video editing. Of course,
there are also many possibilities in the open source world and if I had to choose one, my choice would be Lightworks
Multiplatform
Mac Os
OpenSource
Adobe
Final Cut Pro
Lightworks
Filmora
OpenShot
Adobe Premiere
Teaching
University
Teaching
2019-2020
University
College Cork
(Ireland)
Teaching Assistant
- Italian Contributions to European Culture (BA3 – 24h)
- Italian and Media (BA2 – 12h)
2017-2018
University of
Poitiers (France)
Lecturer of Italian Studies
Italian Civilisation (BA1 - 24h, L2 - 24h., L3 - 40h), Translation [French-Italian]
(BA3 - 12h), Literature and Power (BA1 et BA2 - 12h), Mediterranean Culture
(BA2 - 4h), Italian Language (BA2 - 80h)
2016-2017
University of
Lorraine
(Nancy)
Lecturer of Italian Studies
Written Italian (BA1 - 20h), Italian Linguistics and Geography (BA1 – 20h), Italian Society
and Civilisation (BA1 – 20h), Italian History of Arts (BA3 – 20h), Contemporary Italian
Literature (BA2/ BA3 – 20h). Business Italian (MA1 – 12h), Italian Language (BA3 – 40,
MA1/MA2 – 60h).
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2015-2016
University of
Strasbourg
(France)
Teaching Assistant
Italian Grammar classes (BA1/BA2 - 30h).
2014-2016
University of
Lorraine
(Nancy)
Lecturer of Italian Studies
Italian Language (BA1/BA2/BA3 – 144h), History of literary criticism (MA1 – 20h),
Communication professionnelle orale (BA1/BA2/BA3 – 144h), Italian Society and
Civilisation (BA3 – 12h), Telephonic communication (BA3 – 24h), Italian Language for
commerce (MA1 – 42h), Italian Language – beginners (BA1/BA2/BA3/MA1/MA2 - 200 h);
intermediate (BA1/BA2/BA3 – 104 h); advanced (BA1/BA2/BA3 – 100h).
2011-2014
University of
Richmond
(Florence
Campus)
Contractual teacher
Italian as a foreign language (150h)
2011-2014
University of
Pise (Italie)
Teaching Assistant
Occasional collaboration in the didactics of the general linguistics course and the personal
work of the students of the Master in Italian Linguistics and Literature (LiLe and LeFe).
Digital Humanities
2019
2020
University of Tours
(France)
Contractual Teacher - Digital Humanities master of Renaissance Centre for Higher Studies
- Descriptive statistics and data analysis (MA1 - 24h)
Digital Humanities Teaching in Tranings
2021
Leipzig University
(Allemagne)
3-13 August 2021 - European Summer University in Digital Humanities
Distant Reading in R (36h) | Humanities Data and Mapping Environments (36h)
2020
University of Poitiers
(France)
10-14 February 2020 - Winter School: EnExDi (Encoder, Exploiter, Diffuser)
Digital Mapping (18h)
2019
University College
Cork (Ireland)
4 December 2019 - First step in Digital Humanities World
Textual analysis and data visualization (8h)
University of Poitiers
(France)
9-11 January 2019- Winter School : EnExDi (Encoder, Exploiter, Diffuser)
Digital Mapping and Data Visualization (18h)
2018
École Normale
Supérieure de Paris
(France)
1-4 October 2018 - Digital Humanities Training of the ENS (École Normale Supérieure)
XML-TEI, textométrie, stylométrie, analyse des réseaux, cartographie (8h)
University of Neuchâtel
(Suisse)
12-16 February 2018 - Training in Digital Philology. Encoder, Exploiter, Diffuser
Data and mapping (6h)
Outside University
2015
2016
Maison des jeunes et
de la culture (Nancy -
France)
Contractual teacher
Italian as a second language (350h)
2011
2013
Odissea Cooperative
(Lucca - Italy)
Contractual teacher
Linguistic manager for the social integration of immigrants of the Project Emergenza
Profughi (Emergency Refugees) for the learning of the Italian Language (192h)
2010
2011
So&Co Cooperative
(Lucca - Italy)
Contractual teacher
Italian as a second language (36h)
European School of
Languages (Lucca -
Italie)
Contractual teacher
Professional Italian language teacher for Libyan entrepreneurs in the framework of the
International Trade Exchange Project between Italy and Libya (96h)
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Italian Recreational
and Cultural
Association (Lucca
Italy)
Contractual teacher
Italian as a second language (100h)
Education
Doctorate
05/09/2014
PhD in Linguistic Sciences
University for Foreigners of Perugia (Italy)
PhD thesis : Fenoglio and his
names: An almost neorealist
onomastic
05/09/2014
PhD in Comparative Literature (Specialization: Italian Literature)
University of Lorraine (France)
I earned a double doctorate from two different institutions: the University for Foreigners of Perugia, Italy, and the
University of Lorraine, France. I followed two PhD trainings and had two different vivas on the same day, the first in Italian
(Language Sciences) and the second in French (Literature). I wrote one dissertation for both, which was substantially
longer than a typical PhD dissertation. It had two sections, one for each doctoral discipline. It is mainly written in Italian
with a few sections in French.
Master
29/04/2009
Laurea Specialistica LiLe (Lingua e Letteratura Italiana)
Master – 2nd level degree in Italian Language and Literature - University of Pisa (Italy)
Bachelors
15/05/2007
P. E. S. P. diploma (Publishing Planning and Professional Writing)
University of Pisa / Region of Tuscany
07/12/2005
Laurea triennale in Lettere
Bachelor – 1st level Arts degree | University of di Pisa (Italy)
Certifications and Postgraduate diplomas
Digital Humanities Certificates
07/08/2019
Culture & Technology Certificate - Leipzig University (Germany)
Contents: Compilation, Annotation and Analysis of Written Text Corpora AND All About Data – Exploratory
Data Modelling and Practical Database Access
29/07/2018
Dariah Code Sprint - DARIAH-EU (Berlin - Germany)
Contents: Data visualisation.
27/07/2018
Culture & Technology Certificate - Leipzig University (Germany)
Contents: Stylometry.
07/07/2018
DHOx Summer School Certificate - University of Oxford (United Kingdom)
Content: From Text to Tech: Python programming for powerful text processing in the Humanities.
28/07/2017
Culture & Technology Certificate - Leipzig University (Germany)
Contents: Humanities Data and Mapping Environments.
17/07/2017
Digital Editing and Digital Humanities Certificate - University of Grenoble-Alpes (France)
Contents: Digital humanities course in Semantic annotation, Mapping, TAL – Automatic Treatment of
languages, XSLT.
30/06/2017
Digital Tools for Humanists Certificate - University of Pisa (Italy)
Contents: Global overview of the DH tools.
30/07/2016
Culture & Technology Certificate - Leipzig University (Germany)
Contents: Digital humanities course in XML-TEI encoding, structuring and rendering.
Teaching Certifications
13
19/01/2018
Certification of Linguistic Teaching and Assignment - University of Grenoble-Alpes (France)
Certification of Linguistic Teaching and Assignment for B1 linguistic tests in Italian - National Coordination
of CLES (Certificate of Language Competence in Higher Education).
14/09/2012
CLIC Certificate of Qualification (literature) - University for Foreigners of Perugia (Italy)
Contents: Language teaching, linguistics, dialectology. Advanced Course of Italian Contemporary Language
22/07/2011
CLIC Certificate of Qualification (dialectology) - University for Foreigners of Perugia (Italy)
Contents: Language teaching, linguistics, dialectology. Advanced Course of Italian Contemporary Language
22/07/2011
DITALS II - Didattica dell'Italiano come Lingua Straniera - University for Foreigners of Siena (Italy)
Contents: Diploma of Italian language teaching to foreigners
