Agnese MACCHIARELLI

Agnese Macchiarelli is a Contract Lecturer at Ca' Foscari University of Venice's Department of Humanities. Her academic work bridges medieval studies and digital humanities, with a focus on textual criticism, manuscript studies, and the digital preservation of historical texts. She maintains office hours during lecture periods and coordinates via email.

Education:

• PhD in Italian Studies, Ca' Foscari University of Venice (2017-2021)
• Master's in Italian Studies and Linguistic Sciences, University of Bologna (2013-2015)
• Bachelor's in Italian Studies, Sapienza University of Rome (2009-2013)
• Classical High School Diploma, Santa Teresa di Gesù, Rome (2003-2008)

Research Focus: Macchiarelli specializes in medieval Italian literature, Dominican theological texts, and digital scholarly editing. Her work frequently examines 14th-century authors like Iacopo Passavanti and Dante, employing both traditional philological methods and digital tools like treebanking and text encoding. She maintains particular expertise in the digital representation of sacred historical texts.

Professional Activities:

• Scientific Fellow at Bergische Universität Wuppertal and VeDPH (2023-2026) for the DFG/FWF project History as a Visual Concept: Peter of Poitiers' Compendium Historiae
• Research Grant: Legacy of Thomas Aquinas Treebank Project (2021-2022)
• Teaching Assistant in Medieval/Romance Philology (since 2021)
• Affiliated with Venice Centre for Digital and Public Humanities (VeDPH) since 2021
• Research stay at École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales, Paris (2019-2020)