Prof. Dr. Elena Spadini

SNSF Assistant Professor

E-Mail
elena.spadini@unibe.ch
Büro
D 212 (2.OG.), Unitobler
Postadresse
Universität Bern
Walter Benjamin Kolleg
Digital Humanities
Muesmattstrasse 45
3012 Bern
Sprechstunde
Tuesday 1-2pm.
Please register via e-mail.
ORCID Nummer
orcid.org/0000-0002-4522-2833

Research interests

  • Digital philology
  • Technologies of text, material philology
  • Semantic web
  • Tool criticism
  • History of digital humanities

Publications

Publication Year Type

Curriculum vitae

_
From 2025 Assistant Professor (SNSF Starting Grant 2024 grantee)

University of Bern
2022–2025 Research Navigator

Research and Infrastructure Support, University of Basel
2023 Consultant

Swiss National Data and Service Center for the Humanities
2017–2021 Post-doctoral researcher in the SNSF project 'Gustave Roud, Œuvres complètes'

University of Lausanne
2017 Short Term Scientific Mission

COST Action IS1310 'Reassembling the Republic of Letters'
2014–2017 Marie Skłodowska-Curie fellow in DiXiT (Digital Scholarly Editions Initial Training Network)

Huygens Institute (Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Science)
2012–2016 PhD in romance philology. 'Studi sul Lancelot en prose'

Sapienza University of Rome
2014 MA in digital humanities ('Technologies numériques appliquées à l'histoire')

École nationale des chartes
2008–2012 BA and MA 'Texts, languages and literatures'

Sapienza University of Rome

Activities

Boards

Advisory Board of the PhD Programme Cultural Heritage in the Digital Ecosystem, University of Bologna (from 2024).

Editorial board of RIDE – A review journal for digital editions and resources (from 2020).

Executive Committee of the European Association for Digital Humanities (2017–2020).

Conference chair

Open Up Digital Editions, University of Zurich, 24-26 January 2024.

Scholarly Digital Editions, Graph Data-Models and Semantic Web Technologies, University of Lausanne, 4-5 June 2019.

Translations

(Old French to Italian). Artù, Lancillotto e il Graal, a cura di Lino Leonardi, «I Millenni», Einaudi, 2020-2023. Vol. II: Translation (ch. LX-LXIII), Riassunto, Glossario. Vol. I, III, IV: Glossario.

(English to Italian). Voyant Tools.

(English to Italian). Digital Scholarly Editions: Manuscripts, Texts and TEI Encoding

Peer-review

National funding agencies: Dutch Research Council (2024), Austrian Science Fund (2023), Swiss National Science Foundation (2023), German Research Foundation (2019).

Scientific journals: Digital Humanities Quarterly (2025), Digital Scholarship in the Humanities (2021-2025), Umanistica Digitale (2019-2025), AI and Society (2024), DH Benelux Journal (2023), Magazén (2023), Variants (2022), Griselda Online (2021), Digital Studies/Le champ numérique (2021), Humanités numériques (2021), Digital medievalist (2020), Journal of the Text Encoding Initiative (2017-2020), Journal of Data Mining and Digital Humanities (2018).

Conference scientific committee

AIUCD 2025 (Verona, 11-13 June 2025), Graph Technologies 2025 (Mendrisio, 13-14 February 2025), Computational Humanities Research 2024 (Aarhus, 4-6 December 2024), Computational Humanities Research 2023 (Paris, 6-8 December 2023), COMHUM2022 'Workshop on Computational Methods in the Humanities' (Lausanne, 9-10 June 2022), Computational Humanities Research 2021 (Amsterdam, 17-19 November 2021), DH2020 'Carrefours/Intersections' (Ottawa, 20-25 July 2020), Graph Technologies in the Digital Humanities (Mainz, 18-19 January 2019), COMHUM2018 'Workshop on Computational Methods in the Humanities' (Lausanne, 4-5 June 2018).