About

Giovanni Pietro Vitali is Associate Professor of Cultural History and Digital Humanities at the University of Versailles Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines – Université Paris-Saclay, within the DyPaC research unit. He studied linguistics and literature at the University of Pisa and subsequently completed a PhD as a joint degree between the Università per Stranieri di Perugia and the University of Lorraine, focusing respectively on Italian partisan onomastics and the literary analysis of the works of the partisan writer Beppe Fenoglio.

Prior to his appointment at UVSQ, he taught Italian Studies in France at the University of Lorraine and the University of Poitiers (2014–2018), as well as internationally. He later held a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Research Fellowship at University College Cork, in collaboration with the University of Reading and New York University. His MSCA project, Last Letters from the World Wars: Forming Italian Language, Identity and Memory in Texts of Conflict, examined the linguistic and thematic dimensions of last letters written by individuals sentenced to death during the First and Second World Wars.

Since 2023, he has been a member of the Scientific Committee of the Fondazione Centro di Documentazione Ebraica Contemporanea (CDEC), where he coordinates memory-related projects connected to the archive of Italian deportation. From 2021 to 2024, he served as Secretary of Humanistica, the Francophone association for Digital Humanities. He is also an Associate Researcher at the University of Oxford, where he co-directs the digital humanities Prismatic Translation project and acts as its Digital Humanities advisor.

His research focuses on the cultural history of contemporary conflicts and their memories, writing practices under conditions of violence and constraint, and digital methodologies applied to twentieth-century archives, including mapping, data analysis, and visualisation. He is the author of Voices of Dissent: Interdisciplinary Approaches to New Italian Popular and Political Music (Peter Lang) and has published extensively on the modelling and visualisation of historical data, notably on the deportation of Jewish populations from Italy during the Second World War.

He is Principal Investigator and Co-Principal Investigator of several national and international research projects funded through competitive calls. Among the grants received and projects directed, he leads AVALANCHE, a European platform dedicated to the memory of the Second World War and to women’s testimonies across Italy and Greece; FRONT_JUSTICE, a large-scale digital analysis of military and civilian trials at the front during the First World War, developed in partnership with Sciences & Patrimoine; and URésistant, a philological and digital editing project focused on the manuscripts of Ur Partigiano Johnny, supported by PAMIR. Together, these projects reflect his commitment to interdisciplinary research combining cultural history, textual scholarship, and digital methodologies, with particular attention to conflict, memory, and archival sources.

His main research areas are: History, conflict and politics; Literature and multilingualism; Digital methodologies.

Languages:
Native:  Italian
Intermediate:  English,  French,  Spanish      
Elementary:  Portuguese

History, conflict and politics

Literature and multilingualism

Digital methodologies

Public engagement

Research Projects
Grants
Talks
Publications

Education

- 5 Septembre 2014
University of Lorraine (France)
PhD in Comparative Literature (Specialization: Italian Literature).


- 5 Septembre 2014
Università per Stranieri di Perugia (Italy)
PhD in Linguistic Sciences.

I earned a double doctorate from two different institutions: the Università per Stranieri di Perugia [University for Foreigners of Perugia] (Italy), and the Université de Lorraine (France). I attended two PhD trainings and had two different vivas on the same day, the first in Italian (Language Sciences) and the second in French (Literature).

PhD thesis: Fenoglio and his names: An almost neorealist onomastic

24 April 2009
Università degli Studi di Pisa (Italy)
Laurea Specialistica LiLe (Lingua e Letteratura Italiana)
Master – 2nd level degree in Italian Language and Literature - University of Pisa (Italy).

15 May 2007
Università degli Studi di Pisa (Italy) & Regione Toscana
P. E. S. P. diploma
Publishing Planning and Professional Writing

7 December 2005
Università degli Studi di Pisa (Italy)
Laurea triennale in Lettere
Bachelor – 1st level Arts degree

- 28 March 2024
Charles University, Prague (Czech Republic)
Natural Language Processing Meets Holocaust Archives
Contents: This interactive, hands-on workshop is a cooperation between CLARIN and EHRI, bringing language technology together with Holocaust archives and data

- 7 August 2019
Leipzig University (Germany)
Culture & Technology Certificate
Contents: Compilation, Annotation and Analysis of Written Text Corpora AND All About Data – Exploratory Data Modelling and Practical Database Access

- 29 July 2018
DARIAH-EU (Berlin - Germany)
Dariah Code Sprint
Contents: Data visualisation

- 27 July 2018
Leipzig University (Germany)
Culture & Technology Certificate
Culture & Technology Certificate

- 7 July 2018
University of Oxford (United Kingdom)
DHOx Summer School Certificate
Content: From Text to Tech: Python programming for powerful text processing in the Humanities.

- 28 July 2017
Leipzig University (Germany)
Culture & Technology Certificate
Contents: Humanities Data and Mapping Environments

- 17 July 2017
University of Grenoble-Alpes (France)
Digital Editing and Digital Humanities Certificate
Contents: Digital humanities course in Semantic annotation, Mapping, TAL – Automatic Treatment of languages, XSLT.

- 30 June 2017
Università degli Studi di Pisa (Italy)
Digital Tools for Humanists Certificate
Contents: Global overview of the DH tools.

- 30 July 2016
Leipzig University (Germany)
Culture & Technology Certificate
Contents: Digital humanities course in XML-TEI encoding, structuring and rendering.

- 19 January 2018
Université de Grenoble-Alpes (France)
Certification of Linguistic Teaching and Assignment
Certification of Linguistic Teaching and Assignment for B1 linguistic tests in Italian - National Coordination of CLES (Certificate of Language Competence in Higher Education).

- 14 September
Università per Stranieri di Perugia (Italy)
CLIC Certificate of Qualification (literature)
Contents: Language teaching, linguistics, dialectology. Advanced Course of Italian Contemporary Language.

- 22 July 2011
Università per Stranieri di Perugia (Italy)
CLIC Certificate of Qualification (dialectology)
Contents: Language teaching, linguistics, dialectology. Advanced Course of Italian Contemporary Language.

- 22 July 2011
Università per Stranieri Siena (Italy)
DITALS II - Didattica dell'Italiano come Lingua Straniera
Contents: Diploma of Italian language teaching to foreigners

Work Experience

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2020-Today

Université de Versailles Saint Quentin en Yvelines - Université Paris-Saclay

Associate Professor in Cultural History and Digital Humanities (Department of History)

[Maître de conférences en Histoire Culturelle et Humanités Numériques – Section 22 : Histoire et civilisations : histoire des mondes modernes, histoire du monde contemporain ; de l'art ; de la musique]

Research Units:
- DYPAC: Cultural and Heritage Dynamics [Dynamiques Patrimoniales et Culturelles - EA2449]
- CHCSC: Centre for the Cultural History of Contemporary Societies [Centre d'histoire culturelle des sociétés contemporaines – EA 2448]

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2012-2013

Università degli Studi di Pisa

Cultore della Materia in General Linguistics (Department of Linguistics)

University Assistant for the course of General Linguistics

Research

Research Interests.

My research activities reflect my interdisciplinary background, starting with my dual training in literature and linguistics and philology. As a result, my research work focuses on three themes that may seem far apart, but are grouped around the same approach. I am particularly interested in the study of the relationship between artistic production, social movements, and politics. The analysis of texts from armed conflicts such as the First and Second World Wars, as well as ideological and cultural conflicts, therefore lies at the heart of my work. My three main areas of research are:

- History, conflict, and politics
- Literature and multilingualism
- Digital methodology

My approach combines cultural studies and the use of digital technology, particularly Natural Language Processing techniques geared towards discourse analysis. My expertise is applied after the corpus has been created, between the digital analysis of the text and the representation of the data. My first area of specialization in computer science is data visualization: I am a specialist in digital mapping and GIS (Geographic Information Systems), network analysis, and have skills in Python and JavaScript programming, but my environment of choice is R.

Write to me!

Research Projects

2025-2027 (Role Co-INVESTIGATOR)
Fondation Science du Patrimoine

The project aims to make graphic heritage more visible by developing a methodology for the inventory and preservation of (typo)graphic materials, emphasizing processes and intellectual approaches rather than only finished objects. It also explores the integration of digital formats and the creation of a management and dissemination tool for dispersed collections across different heritage institutions. Using the case of the Musée national d’art moderne, the project will design a prototype digital interface based on Linked Open Data and FAIR data principles. This will provide the first thematic infrastructure for graphic design heritage, enabling both long-term conservation and innovative research such as distant reading on unexplored corpora.

Consortium: Bibliothèque Kandinsky, Musée national d’art moderne / CCI, Centre Pompidou, Université de Versailles Saint Quentin en Yvelines, Institut national d’histoire de l’art (Unité InVISU), Musée de l’imprimerie (Lyon), Université Paris VIII (TEAMED), Université Rennes 2 (PTAC).

   DESIGRAPH

DESIGRAPH: Le design graphique dans les collections patrimoniales françaises : bases de données et humanités numériques au secours d’une collection invisible ? Le cas du Musée national d’art moderne

2024-2026 (Role PI)
European Commission CERV 2023

The aim of AVALANCHE is to create a platform composed by the applicant organisations, their partners and their extended networks, which will build and manage correlated activities to raise enhanced awareness of World War II as a funding stone for European historical memory and to promote remembrance as an instrument to nurture Europe’s cultural heritage. The project will focus on women's testimony and language analysis on historical events that are generally unknown and have not been previously a focus of research, on their impact on communities and territories, in order to create a link between global and local histories, focusing on the Liberation War (the liberation of Europe from nazi-fascist oppression), the Rome Holocaust and the application of the Nazis’ “final solution” in Italy and Greece.

Consortium: Université de Versailles Saint Quentin en Yvelines - Université Paris-Saclay (France) | Fondazione Centro di Documentazione Ebraica Contemporanea di Milano (Italy) | Aristotle University of Thessaloniki (Greece) | Mu.Bat (Museum of Battipaglia City) Cultural Association - City Collaborative Open Archives (Italy)

   AVALANCHE

AVALANCHE: Audio Visuals and Languages Analysis Network for Cultural Heritage in Europe - Avalanche of Democracy.

2024-2026 (Role P.I.)
Fondation Science du Patrimoine

The aim of the FRONT_JUSTICE project is to catalogue and digitally analyse the records of trials of French soldiers and civilians that took place at the front during the First World War. Using an approach typical of distant reading, the data contained in the trial minutes will be analysed in order to develop theories about the behaviour of soldiers and civilians at the front. Once collected and structured, these data and their visualisations will make it possible to reinterpret the condition experienced by soldiers through a socio-anthropological reading of the human person on the front line at a time when power is judging, and often condemning, them.

Consortium: Université de Versailles Saint Quentin en Yvelines - Université Paris-Saclay (France) | Ecole nationale des chartes (PSL – France) | Centre national de la recherche scientifique (CNRS – France) | École pour l'informatique et les techniques avancées (EPITA – France) | Service historique de la Défense (SHD – France) | Archives nationales - Ministère de la Culture (AN – France).

   FRONT_JUSTICE

FRONT_JUSTICE: Sur le front (de) la justice. Une lecture numérique de la justice militaire pendant la Première Guerre Mondiale.

2024-Ongoing (Role PI)
Université Franco-Italienne

The aim of this project is to offer a philological study and digital edition of the Ur Partigiano Johnny manuscripts, which has a fundamental historical value: it is the only written testimony of the military activities at Vesime airport that the Allies managed to set up across the Nazi-controlled front line. This manuscript was published posthumously by Einaudi in 1978, but this edition does not take into account all the newly discovered documents.

Consortium: Université de Versailles Saint Quentin en Yvelines - Université Paris-Saclay (France) | Università di Torino (Italy) | Centre d'études supérieures de la Renaissance (CESR – France) | Centro Studi Beppe Fenoglio di Alba (Italy)

   UResistant

UResistant: Ur Partigiano Johnny de Beppe Fenoglio : étude philologique et édition critique numérique.

2024-2027 (Role PI)
Rothschild Foundation Hanadiv

The project envisages the transformation of the oral interviews and photographs collected by the CDEC Foundation in the framework of the Edoth project into an archival fond, whose inventory will be available online through the Digital Library. TRAME also aims to acquaint a wide and varied public with the cultural heritage and history of the migration of Jews from the southern shore of the Mediterranean to Italy through the creation of interactive digital resources, educational materials and specific in-depth studies.

Consortium: Université de Versailles Saint Quentin en Yvelines - Université Paris-Saclay (France) | Fondazione CDEC (Italy | Università Ca’ Foscari Venezia (Italy)

   TRAME

TRAME: Tracing Routes and Memories: entangled Jewish experiences across the Mediterranean.

2018-2023 (Role Co-Investigator)
University of Oxford

Prismatic Jane Eyre, a collaborative project by multiple scholars, explores the vast array of translations of Charlotte Brontë's seminal work, Jane Eyre, first published in 1847. The project challenges the notion that these translations are mere replicas of the original text, instead advocating for their interpretation as conduits for diverse readings of the novel, akin to a prism refracting light. Through meticulous analysis of both the English original and its myriad translations, Prismatic Jane Eyre reveals how the novel's themes—feminism, politics, and romance—are interpreted differently across cultures, languages, and individual translators. By tracing the novel's reception globally, the project sheds light on why and where it has been translated, and even explores instances where it has not been translated, such as in Swahili. Utilizing digital tools like maps and cover image displays, the project offers new insights into the global dissemination of Brontë's work. Prismatic Jane Eyre thus emerges as a groundbreaking intervention in translation studies, comparative literature, and the study of English literature, appealing to scholars and enthusiasts alike.

   Prismatic Jane Eyre

Prismatic Jane Eyre: Prismatic Translations                       

2023-2025 (Role Co-Investigator)
Fondation Science du Patrimoine

The Vocripat project is part of a series of investigations into the concepts and lexicons used in the field of heritage science. It is based on post-doctoral work that forms part of a wider project involving the collaborative drafting of a Critical Vocabulary of Heritage, which will serve as a terminological, reflective and forward-looking tool for researchers in this field, as well as heritage professionals and users.

Consortium: Université de Versailles Saint Quentin en Yvelines - Université Paris-Saclay (France) | CY Cergy Paris Université (France) | Centre national de la recherche scientifique (CNRS – France)

   VOCRIPRAT


Vocripat: Vocabulaire critique du patrimoine.

2023-2024 (Role Co-Investigator)
Université de Versailles Saint Quentin en Yvelines

The "Digital mapping of Tianjin's architectural heritage" project is an interdisciplinary project in the sociology of contemporary China and digital humanities. Its aim is to produce a digital map, using a geographic information system and a relational database, of around 200 places and buildings in Tianjin that are involved in various architectural protection processes, in order to give an account of the temporality, extent and distribution of this architectural protection in the urban landscape of the city of Tianjin in China.

Consortium: Université de Versailles Saint Quentin en Yvelines - Université Paris-Saclay (France) | CY Cergy Paris Université (France) | Centre national de la recherche scientifique (CNRS – France).

   TianjinArSIG

TianjinArSIG: Cartographie numérique du patrimoine architectural de Tianjin.

2018-2020 (Role P.I.)
European Commission MCSA IF

Last Letters entails a linguistic and thematic analysis of the final letters authored by Italians condemned to death during the two World Wars. The digitisation of these epistolary texts will serve as a platform to investigate the shaping of post-War European identities and politics, specifically focusing on: the evolving perceptions of gender roles (taking into account, for example, the enfranchisement of women in Italy at the close of the Second World War); attitudes towards conflict; and the delineation of Italian identity through language.

Consortium: University College Cork | University of Reading | New York University.

   Last_Letters

Last_Letters Last Letters from the World Wars: Forming Italian Language, Identity and Memory in Texts of Conflict.

2019-2020 (Role Researcher)
National Institute Ferruccio Parri in Milan

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.

   Antifascisti di Spagna                                                           

Antifascisti di Spagna

2019-2023 (Role: Researcher)
European Commission CA18140

PIMo is a four-year global research project undertaken by scholars from the humanities and social sciences, including historians, scholars of literary, visual, and material culture, philosophers, mathematicians, and maritime, biological, and bio-behavioral sciences.

Research activities and in the PIMo network in Working Group 3: Paper in Motion.

   PIMo


PIMo: People in Motion

2018-2023 (Role Co-Investigator)
Università per Stranieri di Perugia

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.

   Firb-Lira

Firb-Lira: Lingua e cultura Italiana in Rete per l'Apprendimento                                                                               

Grants & Awards

Grants

Research Distinctions & Awards

2019-2025 Scientific Director (Tab Edizioni)

Scientific Director of the Rifrazioni book’s collection of comparative studies of the Tab Edizioni publishing house.

2023 - Nomination to the Scientific Committee - Center of Contemporary Jewish Documentation (CDEC)

Nomination as member of the scientific committee of the Italian Center of Contemporary Jewish (CDEC) for research merits in the study of deportation.

2021-2023 Secretary of Humanistica

Secretary of the Francophone association in Digital Humanities (Humanistica).

2020 - Open Researcher of the Year - University College Cork

Best researcher committed to the use of open science among all staff at University College Cork.

Publications

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M. Reynolds, G. P. Vitali et al. (ed), Prismatic Jane Eyre. Close-Reading a World Novel Across Languages (Cambridge: Open Book Publishers, 2023). [DOI: 10.11647/OBP.0319]  Zotero Library

B. Westphal, Giovanni Pietro Vitali et al. (ed.), Espaces de conflit et textes de guerre. Tracer une géographie des oppositions (Limoges : Presses Universitaires de Limoges, 2021). [ISBN13: 9782842878368]  Zotero Library

G. P. Vitali, 'Il dizionario del partigiano anonimo: le contrapposizioni antitetiche del racconto della resistenza secondo l'uomo ordinato', Anna Frabetti, Laura Toppan (ed.). Raccontare la Resistenza (Florence: Franco Cesati Editore, 2023), 201-226. [ISBN: 979-12-5496-052-3]  Zotero Library

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 B. Westphal, Giovanni Pietro Vitali et al. (ed.), Espaces de conflit et textes de guerre. Tracer une géographie des oppositions (Limoges : Presses Universitaires de Limoges, 2021), 51-71. [ISBN13: 9782842878368]  Zotero Library

G. P. Vitali, ‘Le ultime lettere di Primo Levi e i suoi compagni ad ogni passo verso Auschwitz’, in Laura Toppan, Paolo Rigo, Maria Antonietta Garullo, (ed.), Scolpitele nel vostro cuore. Primo Levi a cento anni dalla sua nascita (Firenze: Ensemble, 2020), 209-269. [ISBN: 979-12-5496-052-3]  Zotero Library

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), 115-126. [hal-01808439]  Zotero Library

G. P. Vitali, ‘Il mélange privato della questione letteraria nei testi di Beppe Fenoglio’, Aldo Maria Morace et Alessio Giannanti (ed.), La letteratura nella letteratura (Pisa : ETS, 2016), 275-285.  Zotero Library

G. P. Vitali, ‘Note di onomastica pratoliniana’, Maria Carla Papini, Gloria Manghetti, Teresa Spignoli (ed.), Vasco Pratolini (1913-2013), (Florence : Olschki, 2015), 299-313. [ISBN13: 9788822263414]  Zotero Library

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. [ISBN13: 9788898640041]  Zotero Library

G. P. Vitali, ‘I partigiani di Fenoglio tra realtà, narrativa 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  Zotero Library

Journals (13 items)

G. P. Vitali, ‘Storia contro Narrazione, progetti e futuri digitali per la storiografia della seconda guerra mondiale’, Occupied Italy 2 (2022), 4-14. [DOI 10.53258]  Zotero Library

A. Del Lungo, G. P. Vitali, ‘La littérature du XIXe siècle au prisme des humanités numériques’, Romantisme I/191 (2021), 64-75. [DOI 10.3917]  Zotero Library

M. Reynolds, G. P. Vitali, ‘Mapping and Reading a World of Translations: Prismatic Jane Eyre’, Modern Languages Open 1 (2021), 1-18. [DOI: 10.3828]  Zotero Library

G. P. Vitali, ‘Contiamo ancora (sul) la musica d’impegno. Crisi e futuro della musica politica in italia nella tradizione del genere folk’, Zona Letteraria 6 (2021), 21-29. [ISBN: 978-88-31304-49-8]  Zotero Library

G. P. Vitali, ‘Visualising Second World War Violence through an Atlas of Nazi-Fascist Repression’, DSH - Digital Scholarship in the Humanities 34/4 (2021), 594–610. [DOI: 10.1093]  Zotero Library

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. [ISSN: 2264-2668]  Zotero Library

G. P. Vitali, G. P. Vitali, ‘Il dialetto e la sua assenza nei romanzi di Beppe Fenoglio’, Italian Studies 73:3 (2018), 321-337. [DOI: 10.1080]  Zotero Library

G. P. Vitali, ‘Rethinking Rome as an Anthology: The Poeti Der Trullo’s Street Poetry’, Umanistica Digitale 3 (2018), 105-136. [DOI: 10.109310.6092]  Zotero Library

G. P. Vitali, ‘La tensione antieroica dei personaggi fenogliani’, Gentes 2 (2015), 118-122  Zotero Library

G. P. Vitali, ‘La lingua del lago di Davide Van de Sfroos’, Gentes 1 (2014), 55-60  Zotero Library

G. P. Vitali, ‘I nomi di Il partigiano Johnny’, il Nome nel testo XV (2013), 417-428. [ISBN: 9788846737991]  Zotero Library

G. P. Vitali, ‘L’onomastica antieroica della città di Alba’, il Nome nel testo XIV (2012), 359-372. [ISBN: 9788846737632]  Zotero Library

G. P. Vitali, ‘L’elemento storico e cronachistico delle scelte onomastiche di Vasco Pratolini’, il Nome nel testo, XII (2010), 445-54. [ISBN: 9788846731555]  Zotero Library


Conference proceedings (6 items)

G. P. Vitali, L. Brazzo ‘Tracing the deportation to define Holocaust geometries. The exploratory case of Milan’, The First Workshop on Holocaust Testimonies as Language Resources @LREC-COLING-2024 (2024), 53-62. [CC BY-NC 4.0]  Zotero Library

G. P. Vitali, M. Reynolds, ‘Propositions cartographiques pour l'étude des traductions: le cas de Jane Eyre de Charlotte Brontë’, Humanistica (2023), 1-6. [hal-04136928]  Zotero Library

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. [DOI: DOI 10.6092]  Zotero Library

G. P. Vitali et S. Gabay, ‘A Theatre of Places: Mapping 17th French theatre’, ACM-GIR’19 DOI: 10.1145/3371140]  Zotero Library

G. P. Vitali, ‘L’autre néoréalisme dans la nominatio de Pavese, Fenoglio et Vittorini’, in Carole Hough, Daria Izdebska (ed.), Names and Their Environment, v. 5 (Glasgow : University of Glasgow Press, 2016), 67-77. [ISBN: 978-0-85261-947-6]  Zotero Library

G. P. Vitali, ‘ The importance of names’ signifiers in Vasco Pratolini’s novels’, Biblioteca Tècnica de Política Lingüística 11 (2014), 2336-2343. [DOI: 10.2436/15.8040.01.226]  Zotero Library

G. P. Vitali, ‘il Nome nel testo’, Revue des études italiennes 1-4 (2013), 286-288  Zotero Library


DIGITAL WORKS

Every digital project displayed in this section is designed by adhering to open science criteria and FAIR principles. The code, data and corpora that make up my digital projects are all released and reusable on digitalkoine, my GitHub repositiories. In this section I have highlighted my most significant digital publications, a selection of all the digital works I have done.

G. P. Vitali, M. Paroli, Beppe Fenoglio Mobile App (2022)

This is a mobile application (iOS and Android) for literary tourism in the Langhe, based on the works of the Italian writer Beppe Fenoglio (1922-1963). The app was created in collaboration with the Beppe Fenoglio Study Centre in Alba, to mark the centenary of the Piedmontese writer's birth.

  Download for iOS
  Download for Android

G. P. Vitali, Milano: mappe sugli arresti e le deportazioni degli ebrei fra il 1943 e il 1945 (2023)

This is a pilot project conducted in collaboration with the Fondazione CDEC to shed light on the historical dynamics of the arrests and deportations of Italian Jews to foreign concentration camps between 1943 and 1945.

- First case study, Jews born in Milan and deported abroad:
 Graph      |       Map      |       Network

- Second case study: Jews arrested in Milan and deported abroad
 Graph      |       Map      |       Network

G. P. Vitali, Prismatic Jane Eyre (2022)

Prismatic Jane Eyre, a collaborative project explores the vast array of translations of Charlotte Brontë's seminal work, Jane Eyre. I was in charge of all the digital activities of the project for years and created the site, digital analyses and visualisations. For all digital objects, I ensured that everything was totally open source and followed FAIR principles.

 Oxford Repositories      |       Github Organisation repositories

Prismatic Jane Eyre translation maps.

Here is a list of all the documents I created for the case study of translations of Charlotte Brontë's Jane Eyre in order to study how the practice of literary translation evolved over time:

 Distribution map      |       Thematic map      |       Chronological map

Covers maps: Arabic, Brazilian, Danish, Dutch, Estonian, Finnish, French, German, Greek, Hebrew, Hungarian, Japanese, Persian, Polish, Romanian, Slovenian, Spanish, Swedish, Turkish

G. P. Vitali, Atlas of Nazi-Fascist Repression (2019)

It consists of two maps illustrating all the deportations of members of the Jewish communities, wartime massacres and executions.

 Thematic map      |       Chronological map

G. P. Vitali, Last Letters (2018)

Last Letters was my main postdoctoral project between 2018 and 2020. In this section I list all the links published during my research activities.
Links: Facebook page, Twitter, Website, YouTube Channel, Spatial Edition of the letters.

G. P. Vitali, Italiano e dialetti, Firb-Lira, 01/1/2013

G. P. Vitali, Italiano e media, Firb-Lira, 01/1/2013

M. Donati, G. P. Vitali, Al lavoro, Firb-Lira, 01/1/2013

Talks

Invited Lectures and Seminars

19 November 2025 - Inside the digital box of text analysis. Fundamental concepts and tools for beginning an analysis of literature
Digital Humanities and the study of Litterature – Universidade de Aveiro.

18 November 2025 - Close, distant, scalable? How to read literature through digital technology from multiple perspectives
Digital Humanities and the study of Litterature – Universidade de Aveiro

12 September 2025 - Methodologies, Networks and Ontologies: Representing Music Through Data Relationships
Music Publishing and Film: Toward a Production History of the Soundtrack in Italy (1958–1976) – Università di Pisa.

30 June 2025 - Laboratorio di digital humanities
Summer School sull’Ebraismo Italiano della Fondazione Centro di Documentazione Ebraica Contemporanea - Camaldoli.

18 November 2024 - Training Session: DH and Research Projects (ECA)SIS Conference - Italian Studies at the Digital Turn: Practice, Methods, Interdisciplinarity - University of Leeds

1 April 2025 - Storia, letteratura e studi culturali tra dati, cartografia e intrecci visuali
Seminario internazionale: Dal medioevo all'età contemporanea - Università Federico Secondo (Napoli)

31 March 2025 - Dalla fonte alla mappa, la cartografia digitale per le scienze umane
Seminario Scuola Dottorale del Dipartimento di Studi Umanisitci – Università Federico Secondo (Napoli)

22 January 2024 - La costruzione materiale del discorso narrativo di Beppe Fenoglio: un viaggio tra carte e idee sullo sfondo della Resistenza
Journée d'étude Résistance - Université de Lorraine (Nancy)

9 December 2024 - La cartographie numérique pour les sciences humaines
Seminaires du Master Humanités Numérques de École Normale Supérieure de Lyon

18 November 2024 - Nel laboratorio digitale dello storico: applicazioni e metodi per l'analisi dei dati e le fonti d'archivio
Seminario Digital Humanities – Università Federico Secondo (Napoli)

10 October 2024 - AI e data analisys per la digitalizzazione degli archivi
Musei e Impresa – Heritage Lab ItalGas (Torino)

5 June 2024 - Prismatic Jane Eyre. Close-Reading a World Novel Across Languages
LCS Digital Humanities Symposium "Consuming Fiction in a Convergence Culture" – University of Leeds

22 May 2024 - Tracing Nazi-Fascist violence to reinterpret World War II history. Deportation and war massacres in Italy between 1943 and 1945 from the archive to digital
digitalhumanities.lv seminars (CLARIN-LV and DARIAH-EU) - Riga

18 April 2024 - Visualizzare la Shoah
Voci dall'Inferno: 'Dante nelle testimonianze dei sopravvissuti ai lager - Università di Pisa

26 February 2024 - Text Mining (To present in the Digital Methods in History)
European University Institute - Florence

19 February 2024 - Digital Cartography (To present in the Digital Methods in History)
European University Institute - Florence

12 December 2023 - Ouvrir ou fermer : les perspectives de l’Open Data
Journée d’études « Open Data » de l’ADEMEC, École des Chartes

6 December 2023 - Mapping with R for Humanities
Opening Workshop for the Computational Humanities Research 2023, Epita Paris

3 December 2023 - La rappresentazione digitale degli arresti e della deportazione. Il caso di Milano
CONVEGNO "30 novembre 1943: il fascismo ordina l'arresto degli ebrei. Una data del calendario civile italiano", Fondazione Memoriale della Shoah (Milano)

28 November 2023 - Rethinking deportation and war massacres in Italy through the filter of the Spatial Humanities
RHUL Holocaust Research Institute Seminar, University of London

27 November 2023 - First steps in digital cartography for the humanities
Digital Humanities Seminar, Royal Holloway University

20 November 2023 - Digital HistoryLab 4.0, Raccontare la Storia con gli strumenti digitali
Didattia della Shoah Giovani Pensatori dell'Università dell'Insubria, Università dell'Insubria

8 September 2023 - La trasformazione digitale e la qualità dell’informazione
Emersione digitale Workshop, Battipaglia (Salerno)

6 September 2023 - Trasmettere e riscrivere la testimonianza. Le Ultime lettere tra didattica e riflessione umana
Remember The Holocaust, Act for Democracy (5-8 September 2023), Università di Trieste

26 July 2023 - Grafici, mappe e reti: dai dati al codice per una storiografia (forse) etica
I mestieri della storia e le digital humanities - Seminario di Dipartimento, Università di Torino

14 June 2023 - Visualiser la violence pendant la Seconde Guerre mondiale à travers le SIG. Massacres de guerre et déportation en Italie entre 1943 et 1945
Workshop sources des SIG : des outils pour la cartographie dans les humanités numériques, Paris-Saclay

22 May 2023 - Tracer numériquement la traduction à travers le prisme de la lecture distante
Traduction, édition et réception Charlotte Brontë en France, Université de Lorraine

24 May 2023 - Grafici, mappe e reti: dai dati al codice per una storiografia e una critica letteraria (forse) etica
Patrimonio culturale e digital humanities: stato dell'arte e prospettive future, Università Federico Secondo di Napoli

28 March 2023 - Rappresentare la deportazione
Seminar of Department of History, Università degli Studi di Milano

26 March 2023 - Proposte digitali per il CDEC
Andiamo a trovare la Signora Polonia Workshop, Fondazione Memoriale Della Shoah Di Milano

3 March 2023 - Digital Humanities per le Scienze Umane
Seminar of Department of Culture and Humanities, Università di Pavia

20 February 2023 - The Digital Frontier? New Approaches to Literary and Translation Studies, History and Music
Seminar of the School of Languages, University of Warwick

5 December 2022 - Systèmes d’Informations Géographique pour les Sciences Humaines
Seminar of Digital Humanities Master, Université de Grenoble-Alpes

24 November 2022 - La science ouverte
Table Ronde Données et Sciences ouverts (30 ans du CHSCS), Université de Versailles Saint Quentin en Yvelines

8 November 2022 - La poésie dans les rues de Rome, approches numériques de l’analyse du texte et de l’espace poétique
Séminaire Patrimonialitté, KU Leuven

3 November 2022 - Voices of Dissent. Approches interdisciplinaires à la nouvelle musique populaire et politique italienne
Sèminaire de la IASPM (International Association for the Study of Popular Music), Paris

24 September 2022 - Atlas Fenoglio: le opere dell'autore dal punto di vista digitale
Centro Studi Beppe Fenoglio, Alba

9 September 2022 - Strumenti di cartografia digitale per la storia
Museum of Operation Avalanche in Salerno

8 September 2022 - (Ri)leggere e (Ri)scrivere la seconda guerra mondiale dalla carta al codice
Avalanche day 2022, Battipaglia (Salerno)

11 Juin 2022 - Approcci digitali alle guerre mondiali tra storia e letteratura
Italian Department Seminar, Université Côte d'Azur

15 April 2022 - Des dernières lettres des résistants à un atlas de la violence
Séminaire Département d’Histoire, Université de Nanterre

24 March 2022 - A Digital Fenoglio
Fenoglio, Meneghello and Great Britain, Italian Cultural Institute of Edinburgh

22 March 2022 - Le discours littéraire comme pratique politique, dans la chanson militante d’Italie et d’ailleurs
Séminaire Poïétique et Politique, Universtié de Lille

25 January 2022 - Atlas de la répression nazie et fasciste
ISP (Institut des sciences sociales du politique), Université de Nanterre

21 January 2022 - Recherche et fonds européens, perspectives pour les jeunes chercheurs
Colloque de la SIES (Société des Italianistes de l'Enseignement Supérieur), Universtié de Lyon 1

12 January 2022 - Prismatic Jane Eyre, une expérience dans les études de traduction
Semaine Intensive de la Graduate School Humanité, Université de Versailles Saint Quentin en Yvelines

25 December 2021 - Approcci digitali alle guerre mondiali tra storia e letteratura
Voci dall'Inferno. Le testimonianze dei sopravvissuti ai Lager, Università di Pisa

25 November 2021 - Des dernières lettres des résistants à un atlas de la violence
Assemblée générale du consortium CAHIER, Campus Condorcet

14 May 2021 - Voices of Dissent: Interdisciplinary Approaches to New Italian Popular and Political Music
Seminar of Department of Culture and Humanities, Università di Pavia

13 May 2021 - Rethinking WW2 Through Digital Humanities. Last Letters as Interdisciplinary Research
Seminar of the School of Languages, University of Leeds

17 March 2021 - Humanités numériques : approches interdisciplinaires aux études culturelles
Master Master Ecritures, Université de Lille

4 February 2021 - Les Humanités numériques et les études italiennes
Master Master Ecritures, Université de Lille

5 March 2020 - Digital Humanities or Humanités Numériques Putting French 17th century theatre in perspective
French Department Seminar, University College Cork

5 January 2020 - L'antifascisme espagnol et italien : spatialisation des données
Symposium DATATHON, Université de Poitiers

3 January 2020 - La représentation numérique de l’espace dans la recherche en sciences humaines
ATILF Seminar, ATILF Nancy

23 January 2020 - Représenter la violence de la Seconde Guerre Mondiale. L’Atlas de la répression nazie et fasciste
Digital Humanities Symposium, Université de Lorraine

22 January 2020 - Ce sont mes derniers mots. Les dernières lettres de Juifs et de partisans condamnés à mort pendant le fascisme
Seminar of Littératures, Imaginaire, Sociétés research unit, Université de Lorraine

21 January 2020 - Rileggere la Resistenza. Analisi testuali e spaziali per rileggere la seconda guerra mondiale
Seminar Series "Raccontare la resistenza", Université de Strabourg

28 November 2019 - I testimoni epistolari di Primo Levi
French Department Seminar, Università Cattolica di Milano

22 November 2019 - Cartografie: Mappare l’Olanda letteraria
French Department Seminar, University of Leiden

21 November 2019 - Tools and Methods for Digital Text Analysis
A Research Seminar on Digital Scholarship (afternoon), Vrije Universiteit Brussel

21 November 2019 - Last Letters from the World Wars. Analysing Texts of Conflict through a Digital Approach
A Research Seminar on Digital Scholarship (morning), Vrije Universiteit Brussel

20 November 2019 - La poesia nello spazio dalla città al digitale
Digital Humanities & Literary Studies, University of Leuven

22 September 2019 - Last Letters. A linguistic and thematic analysis
NYU Postgraduate Seminar, New York

21 Juin 2019 - Last Letters. Les lettres des condamnés à mort italiens (1915-1945)
Les Séminaires du CMMC, Université Côte d'Azur

3 Juin 2019 - La corrispondenza clandestina al tempo del fascismo. Il caso di Primo Levi tra le lettere dei partigiani e deportati
Seminario internazionale di studi su Primo Levi, Circolo Cittadino del Comune di Latina

19 September 2018 - Rethinking Rome as an Anthology: The Poeti der Trullo’s Street Poetry
Digital Humanities Colloquium, University College Cork

10 July 2018 - Digital Brontë. An overview
Prismatic Jane Eyre 2018 Colloquium, University of Oxford

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
Parcours Humanités numériques de l'ENS, École Normale Supérieure

7 June 2018 - Re-penser Rome comme une anthologie, la Street Poetry des « Poeti der Trullo »
Parcours Humanités numériques de l'ENS, New York University, Paris Campus

30 May 2018 - Nouvelle musique populaire d’Italie et d’ailleurs : échanges et influences
International Research Seminar: Les Figures de « Passeur », Université de Lorraine

10 July 2018 - Digital Brontë. An overview
Prismatic Jane Eyre 2018 Colloquium, University of Oxford

23 March 2017 - I fiorentini sono faziosi, beceri, geniali. Inchiesta pratoliniana su Firenze e la Toscana
International Research Seminar: « Des Toscans sur tous les fronts », Université de Lorraine

30 July 2014 - Contaminazioni linguistiche e musicali nel genere popolare fra tradizione e innovazione
Seminar of the Advanced Course of Italian Contemporary Language, Università per Stranieri di Perugia

Conferences

17 July 2025 - “Martyred villages” in Europe: memory of mass violence and landscapes of ruins in time of crisis (Panel)
Memory Studies Association Conference, “Beyond the crisis”. 14-18 July 2025, University of Prague

27 July 2023 - Propositions cartographiques pour l'étude des traductions : le cas de Jane Eyre de Charlotte Brontë
Colloque Annuel Humanistica 26-28 July 2023, Université de Genève

30 March 2022 - Materiali Resistenti e letture digitali. I testi partigiani al di là delle loro parole
Colloque Raccontare la Resistenza - 29-30 mars 2022, Université de Strasbourg

15 July 2020 - What is a last letter? A Linguistic Preventive Analysis of Prisoners’ Letters from the Two World Wars
Annual Conference of AIUCD, Università Cattolica di Milano

29 November 2019 - A Theatre of Places: Mapping 17th century French theatre
7th Workshop on Geographic Information Retrieval, Université de Lyon 1

11 July 2019 - Mapping Fascist Repression, Following The Italian Resistance
DH2019 Digital Humanities International Conference, Utrecht University

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
International Conference of the Society for Italian Studies, University of Edinburgh

6 April 2018 - Rethinking Rome as an Anthology, the Poeti der Trullo’s Street Poetry
International Conference of the Society for Italian Studies, University of Sussex

30 April 2016 - Orizzonti lessicali di libertà. Il dizionario del partigiano anonimo: quando la Resistenza racconta la Guerra e la società
International Conference of the Society for Italian Studies, Trinity College Dublin

24 July 2014 - L’autre néoréalisme dans la nominatio de Pavese, Fenoglio et Vittorini
XXV ICOS International Congress of Onomastic Sciences, University of Glasgow

19 June 2014 - Vasco Pratolini da Firenze al resto del mondo
Tuscan Territories: Rural-Urban Dynamics, University of Monash

24 May 2014 - I partigiani di Fenoglio tra realtà, narrativa e ricezione
Annual Conference of AAIS, University of Zurich

17 October 2013 - Note di onomastica pratoliniana
International Congress of Studies on Vasco Pratolini, University of Glasgow

13 June 2013 - Il mélange privato della questione letteraria nei testi di Beppe Fenoglio
Congress of the Italian Society of the Literary Modernity, Università di Sassari

23 June 2013 - La dimension « espace – temps » dans les ouvrages de Beppe Fenoglio (1922-1963)
Journée Jeaunes Chercheurs, Université de Lorraine

14 December 2012 - La Resistenza di Milton e Johnny tra desiderio e realtà
International Congress of the Compalit, Università di Pisa

26 October 2012 - L’onomastica nella letteratura neorealista
Annual Congress of the Italian Historical Linguistics Association, Università di Firenze

13 November 2012 - I nomi del partigiano Johnny tra epica e realismo
XVI International Congress of Onomastics and Literature (O&L), Università di Macerata

25 November 2011 - L’onomastica antieroica della città di Alba
XV International Congress of Onomastics and Literature (O&L), Università di Pisa

5 September 2011 - The importance of names’ signifiers in Vasco Pratolini’s novels
XXIV ICOS International Congress of Onomastic Sciences, Universitat de Barcelona

17 October 2009 - L’elemento storico e cronachistico nell’onomastica di Vasco Pratolini
XIV International Congress of Onomastics and Literature (O&L), Università di Pisa

Teaching

I am an Associate Professor at UVSQ-Paris Saclay, where I teach digital humanities, social and cultural history, historical archiving, and new communication technologies. My teaching combines a historical and digital approach, covering courses such as research techniques in history, archives of the 19th-21st centuries, and digital humanities for history. I also teach data visualization, textometry, and archival information management, applied to historical research. My expertise includes courses on XML-TEI, distant reading, and network analysis, designed for university students, PhD candidates, and researchers. I am responsible for the undergraduate history program and coordinate the integration of digital technologies into history and humanities education. My goal is to provide students with both traditional historical methodologies and computational tools to enhance their research in the digital age.

University teaching

Université de Versailles Saint Quentin en Yvelines - Paris Saclay

Level Course Hours
BA3 Théorie littéraire 36h
BA3 Introduction aux Humanités Numériques 24h
BA2 Art et Société 36h
BA2 Enjeux Sociétaux 36h
MA1 Techniques de la recherche en histoire - Archives du XXème et XXIème 24h
MA1 Seminaire en master recherche en histoire 24h
MA1 CM Humanités Numériques 24h
MA1 TD Humanités Numériques 30h
MA1 Sciences numériques appliquées à la gestion de l'information d’archives 24h
MA2 Humanités Numériques pour l'Histoire 24h
MA2 Communication de Projet 12h

Additional Responsibilities:

  • Person in charge of the teaching programme of the Bachelor's degree in History.
  • Person in charge of the organisation of digital teaching for the humanities.

Université de Poitiers - Contractual Teacher

Level Course Hours
MA2 Introduction to XML-TEI 9h

Université de Versailles Saint Quentin en Yvelines - Paris Saclay

Level Course Hours
BA3 Nouvelles technologies de l'information et de la communication 24h
BA3 Introduction aux Humanités Numériques 96h
BA2 Art et Société 36h
BA2 Enjeux Sociétaux 36h
MA1 Techniques de la recherche en histoire - Archives du XXème et XXIème 24h
MA1 Seminaire en master recherche en histoire 24h
MA1 CM Humanités Numériques 24h
MA1 TD Humanités Numériques 30h
MA1 Sciences numériques appliquées à la gestion de l'information d’archives 16h
MA2 Humanités Numériques pour l'Histoire 24h
MA2 Communication de Projet 12h

Additional Responsibilities:

  • Person in charge of the teaching programme of the Bachelor's degree in History.
  • Person in charge of the organisation of digital teaching for the humanities.

Université de Tours (CESR) - Contractual Teacher

Level Course Hours
MA2 Data Visualisation 7h

Université de Poitiers - Contractual Teacher

Level Course Hours
MA2 Introduction to XML-TEI 9h

Université de Versailles Saint Quentin en Yvelines - Paris Saclay

Level Course Hours
BA3 Nouvelles technologies de l'information et de la communication 24h
BA3 Introduction aux Humanités Numériques 96h
BA2 Art et Société 36h
BA2 Théorie littéraire 36h
MA1 Techniques de la recherche en histoire - Archives du XXème et XXIème 24h
MA1 Seminaire en master recherche en histoire 24h
MA1 CM Humanités Numériques 24h
MA1 TD Humanités Numériques 30h
MA1 Sciences numériques appliquées à la gestion de l'information d’archives 16h
MA1 Textométrie 16h
MA2 Humanités Numériques pour l'Histoire 24h
MA2 Visualisation des données 16h
MA2 Communication de Projet 12h

Additional Responsibilities:

  • Person in charge of the teaching programme of the Bachelor's degree in History.
  • Person in charge of the organisation of digital teaching for the humanities.

Université de Tours (CESR) - Contractual Teacher

Level Course Hours
MA2 Descriptive statistics and data analysis; search engines; data mining of literary corpora (distant reading) 20h

École normale supérieure de Lyon - Contractual teacher

Level Course Hours
MA2 Design and management of digital projects 12h

Université de Poitiers - Contractual Teacher

Level Course Hours
MA2 Introduction to XML-TEI 9h

Université de Versailles Saint Quentin en Yvelines - Paris Saclay

Level Course Hours
BA1 Méthodologie des études littéraires 4h
BA2 Societés Numériques et Humanités (Teaching in Spanish and English) 36h
BA3 Nouvelles technologies de l'information et de la communication 24h
BA3 Introduction aux Humanités Numériques 96h
MA1 Techniques de la recherche en histoire - Archives du 19e siècle 24h
MA1 Seminaire en master recherche en histoire 24h
MA1 CM Humanités Numériques 24h
MA1 TD Humanités Numériques 30h
MA1 Sciences numériques appliquées à la gestion de l'information d’archives 16h
MA1 Textométrie 32h
MA1 Valorisation de la recherche 4h
MA2 Humanités Numériques pour l'Histoire 24h
MA2 Visualisation des données 16h
MA2 Communication de Projet 12h

Additional Responsibilities:

  • Person in charge of the teaching programme of the Bachelor's degree in History.
  • Person in charge of the organisation of digital teaching for the humanities.

Université de Poitiers - Contractual Teacher

Level Course Hours
MA2 Introduction to XML-TEI 9h

Université de Versailles Saint Quentin en Yvelines - Paris Saclay

Level Course Hours
BA1 Méthodologie des études littéraires 24h
BA2 Societés Numériques et Humanités (Teaching in Spanish and English) 36h
BA3 Introduction aux Humanités Numériques 96h
BA3 Nouvelles technologies de l'information 24h
MA1 CM Humanités Numériques 24h
MA1 TD Humanités Numériques 30h
MA1 Sciences numériques appliquées à la gestion de l'information d’archives 16h
MA1 Textométrie 16h
MA1 Techniques de la recherche en histoire - Archives du 19e siècle 24h
MA1 Seminaire en master recherche en histoire 24h
MA2 Communication Culturelle 12h
MA2 Visualisation des données 16h

Additional Responsibilities:

  • Person in charge of the teaching programme of the Bachelor's degree in History.
  • Person in charge of the organisation of digital teaching for the humanities.

Université de Poitiers - Contractual Teacher

Level Course Hours
MA2 Introduction to XML-TEI 9h

Université de Versailles Saint Quentin en Yvelines - Paris Saclay

Level Course Hours
BA1 Méthodologie des études littéraires 24h
MA1 CM Humanités Numériques 24h
MA1 TD Humanités Numériques 30h
MA1 Sciences numériques appliquées à la gestion de l'information d’archives 12h
MA1 Techniques de la recherche en histoire - Archives du 19e siècle 24h
MA1 Seminaire en master recherche en histoire 24h

Additional Responsibilities:

  • Person in charge of the cultural programme of the Bachelor's degree in History.
  • Person in charge of the organisation of digital teaching for the humanities.

Université de Poitiers - Contractual Teacher

Level Course Hours
MA2 Introduction to XML-TEI 9h

Université de Versailles Saint Quentin en Yvelines - Paris Saclay

Level Course Hours
BA1 Méthodologie des études littéraires 24h

University College Cork - Teaching Assistant

Level Course Hours
BA3 Italian Contributions to European Culture 24h
BA2 Italian and Media 12h

Université de Poitiers - Lecturer of Italian Studies

Level Course Hours
BA1 Italian Civilisation 24h
BA2 Italian Civilisation 24h
BA3 Italian Civilisation 40h
BA3 Translation [French-Italian] 12h
BA1 & BA2 Literature and Power 12h
BA2 Mediterranean Culture 4h
BA2 Italian Language 80h

University of Lorraine (Nancy) - Lecturer of Italian Studies

Level Course Hours
BA1 Written Italian 20h
BA1 Italian Linguistics and Geography 20h
BA1 Italian Society and Civilisation 20h
BA3 Italian History of Arts 20h
BA2 & BA3 Contemporary Italian Literature 20h
MA1 Business Italian 12h
BA3 Italian Language 40h
MA1 & MA2 Italian Language 60h

Additional Responsibilities:

  • Person in charge of the Italian courses for Law students.

University of Lorraine (Nancy) - Teaching Assistant

Level Course Hours
BA1 / BA2 / BA3 Italian Language 144h
MA1 History of Literary Criticism 20h
BA1 / BA2 / BA3 Communication professionnelle orale 144h
BA3 Italian Society and Civilisation 12h
BA3 Telephonic Communication 24h
BA1 / BA2 / BA3 / MA1 / MA2 Italian Language - Beginners 200h
BA1 / BA2 / BA3 Italian Language - Intermediate 104h
BA1 / BA2 / BA3 Italian Language - Advanced 100h
MA1 Italian Language for Commerce 42h

Université de Strasbourg - Teaching Assistant

Level Course Hours
BA1 / BA2 Italian Grammar Classes 30h

University of Richmond (Florence Campus) - Contractual Teacher

Level Course Hours
Various Levels Italian as a Foreign Language 150h

Università degli Studi di Pisa - 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).




Teaching in Tranings and Sumer School

Date Course Hours
Università di Catania (Italia)
Summer School Beni materiali e immateriali nell’era digitale
7-11 July 2025 Analisi e visualizzazione dei dati 7
University of Latvia (Riga)
Digital Humanities Baltic Summer School
4-8 August 2025 Network Analysis
&
Digital Mapping
for Humanists		 6
Université Marie & Louis Pasteur (Besançon - France)
European Summer University in Digital Humanities
15-26 July 2025 Distant Reading in R 36
Date Course Hours
MSH Lyon-Saint-Etienne (France)
Semaine Data SHS
9-13 December 2024 Digital Mapping 5
Spineta di Battipaglia (Salerno)
Il Patrimonio ReImmaginato
10-13 September 2024 Digital Tools for Cultural Heritage 6
Babeș-Bolyai University Cluj-Napoca (Romania)
European Summer University in Digital Humanities
15-26 August 2024 Distant Reading in R 36
Date Course Hours
MSH Lyon-Saint-Etienne (France)
Semaine Data SHS
12-15 December 2023 Digital Mapping 5
Babeș-Bolyai University Cluj-Napoca (Romania)
European Summer University in Digital Humanities
24 July – 4 August 2023 Digital Tools for Cultural Heritage 6
Date Course Hours
MSH Lyon-Saint-Etienne (France)
Semaine Data SHS
6-8 December 2022 Premiers pas en analyse des réseaux 5
Leipzig University (Germany)
European Summer University in Digital Humanities
2-12 August 2022 Distant Reading in R 36
Leiden University (Netherland)
Online Summer School for literary scholars with an interest in Digital Humanities
31 April – 3 May 2021 - Digital Mapping for Humanists (4h - 22 June 2024)
- First Steps in Network Analysis (4h – 23 June 2024)		 8
Date Course Hours
MSH Lyon-Saint-Etienne (France)
Semaine Data SHS
7-10 décembre 2021 Cartographie numérique pour les Sciences Humaines 5
MSH Lyon-Saint-Etienne(France)
Cycle de visualisation des données
18 October 2021 Premiers pas en analyse des réseaux 4
Leipzig University (Germany)
European Summer University in Digital Humanities
3-13 August 2021 Distant Reading in R 36
Leiden University (Netherland)
Online Summer School for literary scholars with an interest in Digital Humanities
31 April – 3 May 2021 - Digital Mapping for Humanists (4h - 2 May 2021)
- First Steps in Network Analysis (4h – 3 May 2021)		 8
Date Course Hours
University College Cork (Ireland)
First step in Digital Humanities World
4 December 2019 Textual analysis and data visualization (8h) 8
Date Course Hours
École Normale Supérieure de Paris (France)
XML-TEI, textométrie, stylométrie, analyse des réseaux, cartographie
1-4 October 2018 Digital Mapping 8
Université de Neuchâtel (Switzerland)
FoPhil : Formation en philologie numérique
12-16 February 2018 Training in Digital Philology 6



Non-Academic Teaching

Job Institution Hours
Contractual teacher Heritage Lab Italgas 8
From Data to Stories. La rivista Italgas raccontata dalla Gen Z.
Series of classes for high school students visiting Italgas' Heritage Lab on the relationship between data, archives and Artificial Intelligence.
Contractual teacher Fondazione Centro di Documentazione Ebraica Contemporanea 12
Le ultime lettere intorno a Primo Levi
Conception and teaching of archival education and World War II memory in high schools in Milan and its province through the example of letters sent by Primo Levi and his companions during deportation. These school workshops showcase the outcomes of the European Avalanche project (CERV-2023 - European Remembrance - Grant Agreement: 101143807).
Job Course(s) Hours
Nancy - France
Maison des jeunes et de la culture
Contractual teacher Italian as a second language 350
Job Course(s) Hours
Lucca - Italy
Social Cooperative Odissea
Linguistic manager for the social integration of immigrants Italian as a second language 192
Job Course(s) Hours
Lucca - Italy
So&Co Cooperative
Contractual teacher Italian as a second language 36
Lucca Italy
Italian Cultural Association ARCI
Contractual teacher Italian as a second language 100
Lucca - Italie
European School of Languages
Contractual teacher Italian as a second language 96

Organised Events

I have been engaged in various forms of training and pedagogy for numerous years. Notably, in 2018, I established a pedagogy collective focusing on digital methodologies for the humanities, known as ABC-DH. Through this initiative, I have honed an approach to instructing humanists in the utilization of digital tools. In terms of my philosophy and research ethics, the dissemination of digital culture to young researchers is undeniably one of the paramount aspects I consider crucial and have dedicated significant efforts towards.

EnExDi (Encoder, Exploiter, Diffuser)
I am the founder and director of this training for Ph.D. and Post-doctoral fellows (bilingual French-English school), across 7 editions:
- 15-19 June 2026 - École normale supérieure, Lyon
- 2-6 June 2025 - École normale supérieure, Lyon
- 8-12 April 2024 - École normale supérieure, Lyon
- 23-27 January 2023 - Université de Poitiers
- 9-13 May 2022 - Université de Poitiers
- 10-14 February 2020 - Université de Poitiers
- 5-7 July 2019 - Université de Poitiers

CoAnDi (Codificar, analizar, difundir: convertimos juntos tu proyecto en digital)
I am the founder and director of this training for Ph.D. and Post-doctoral fellows (Spanish school), across 2 editions:
- 28 August - 1 September 2023 - Universidad Internacional Menéndez Pelayo (Santander)
- 8-12 July 2024 - Universidad Internacional Menéndez Pelayo (Santander)

Il Patrimonio ReImmaginato
I am the founder and director of this training for Historians, Librarians And archivists, across 1 edition:
- 10-13 September 2019 - Spineta di Battipaglia (Salerno Italy)

Strumenti digitali per le materie umanistiche
Training in Digital Humanities for Italian teachers of secondary schools:
6 March | 13 March | 20 March 2024 - Università di Verona

Strumenti digitali per l’insegnamento delle scienze umane
Training in Digital Humanities for Italian teachers of secondary schools:
18 September | 25 September | 2 October | 9 October 2023 - Centro di Documentazione Ebraica Contemporanea

CAD (Codificare, Analizzare, Diffondere)
I am the founder and director of this training for Ph.D. and Post-doctoral fellows (Italian school), across 1 edition:
- 16-19 July 2019 - Università di Verona

École d’Hiver en Philologie Numérique
Trainings for the research staff of the University of Neuchâtel:
- 12-16 February 2018 - Université de Neuchâtel (Suisse)

25-26 August 2022
Writing the World Wars - University College Cork (Ireland)
Final conference of Last Letters Marie Curie project.

28-30 June 2021
AIPI Conferences (Associazione Internazionale dei Professori d’Italiano) – Université de Genève (Switzerland)
Organisation of the panel Codificare, Analizzare, Diffondere l’italianistica digitale: Le Digital Humanities nei progetti di ricerca.

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.

15 June 2018
Espaces de conflit et textes de guerre - Université de 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.

23-24 March 2017
Des Toscans sur tous les fronts Université de Lorraine (Nancy - France)
Cycle of conferences dedicated to Tuscan Literature and Civilisation.

25-26 August 2022
Colloque interdisciplinaire Anachronisme – Université de Lorraine (Nancy)
Inter-disciplinary congress on anachronism in Literature.

14-16 November 2013
XVth International Conference of Onomastics and Literature – Università di Pisa (Italy)
Member of the organizing committee of the annual conference of the Association of Onomastics and Literature.

11-13 November 2012
XIVth International Conference of Onomastics and Literature – Università di Macerata (Italy)
Member of the organizing committee of the annual conference of the Association of Onomastics and Literature.

2022
EVEille 2022 Écosophie du numérique – Université de Haute-Alsace:
- 6 May 2022 - Session 5 : Construire une infrastructure... Comment ? Où ? Pourquoi ?.
Guest speaker Amelia Sanz - Universitdad Complutense de Madrid)
- 8 April 2022 – Session 4 : État de l’art des infrastructures dans le contexte global : Amérique Latine.
Guest speaker Gimena del Rio Riande - Universidad de Buenos Aires.
- 11 March 2022 - Session 3 - État de l’art des infrastructures dans le contexte global : Afrique.
Guest speaker Emmanuel Ngué Um - École normale supérieure de Bertoua, Université de Ngaoundéré.
- 11 February 2022 – Session 2 - État de l’art des infrastructures dans le contexte global : Moyen-Orient.
Guest speaker David Wrisley - NYU Abu Dhabi.
- 2 January 2022 – Session 1 - Une charte des valeurs pour une infrastructure FAIR.
Guest speaker Fatiha Idmhand – Université de Poitiers).


2021
Cycle de Séminaires Apèro EnExDi – Université de Poitiers:
- 28 avril 2021 Online Digital Mapping Tools for the Not-so-digital Humanist.
Guest speaker Alessio Aletta.
- 26 avril 2021 The public storytelling of the Covid-19 pandemic. A comparison of four European cases.
Guest speaker Nemola Chiara Zecca.
- 19 avril 2021 Comparing digital tools: PhiloEditor and EVT
Guest speaker Ersilia Russo and Serena Crespi.
- 23 mars 2021 Projet eBalzac : construire une bibliothèque hypertextuelle des sources intellectuelles
Guest speaker Karolina Suchecka.
- 1 mars 2021L'analyse des collections d'artistes grâce à Gephi
Guest speaker Gwendoline Corthier-Hardoin.
- 2 février 2021 La cartographie numérique au service des humanités
Guest speaker Helen Rawsthorne and Nathan Godet.

Digital Skills

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. I work equally on Windows as on unix systems such as macOs or Linux.

Innovative Ideas

Natural Language Processing

My linguistic-literary approach led me to turn to the tools that are typical of Natural Language Processing (NLP): Discourse analysis, Stylometry, Sentiment Analiys and Topic Modelling.

Innovative Ideas

Data Visualization

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, particularly Mapping, Network analys.

Innovative Ideas

Graphic Design and Audiovisual Editing

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 activities and results.

Programming or Markup languages Skills

R programming Language

90%

Python

70%

JavaScript

75%

CSS

60%

HTML

80%

XML-TEI

70%

Graphics

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

Innovative Ideas

Operating system: Linux, macOS, Windows, FreeBSD, OpenBSD, Solaris, AmigaOS

InkScape

Innovative Ideas

Operating system: FreeBSD, Linux, macOS, Windows

Adobe Creative Suite

Innovative Ideas

Operating system: macOS, Windows

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.

Audacity

Innovative Ideas

Operating system: Windows, macOS, Linux, other Unix-like systems

ProTools

Innovative Ideas

Operating system: macOS, Windows

Logic Pro

Innovative Ideas

Operating system: macOS


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.

DaVinci Resolve

Innovative Ideas

Operating system: macOS, Windows, Linux, iPadOS

Adobe Premiere Pro

Innovative Ideas

Operating system: macOS, Windows

Final Cut Pro

Innovative Ideas

Operating system: macOS