Emmanuela CARBÉ

Emmanuela CARBÉ is an Associate Professor in the Department of Humanities at Ca' Foscari University of Venice, specializing in Contemporary Italian Literature (SSD: LICO-01/A). She is a member of the Venice Centre for Digital and Public Humanities (VeDPH) and teaches courses in the Master's Degree in Digital and Public Humanities, including Modeling and Visualizing Textual Data, Digital Literary Studies, Textual Heritage and Digital Preservation, and Storytelling for Hospitality.

Her educational background includes Modern Philology studies at the University of Pavia, where she worked as a research fellow for the Pavia Digital Archives project (2013-2017). Prior to joining Ca' Foscari, she worked at the University of Siena from 2018 to 2025 in various research roles.

Dr. CARBÉ's research focuses on the intersection of digital technologies and literary scholarship. Her work spans:

• Digital Humanities methodologies for literary analysis
• Preservation and study of literary archives in digital formats
• Authorial philology in the digital age
• Modern and Contemporary Italian Literature
• Textual criticism and digital editions
• Native digital literary archives

Her publications and projects demonstrate a strong commitment to advancing digital approaches to literary scholarship, particularly in creating semantic catalogs for literary archives and studying digitally created literary materials. She has directed major projects including the BiGraFo semantic catalog of Franco Fortini's bibliography and the recovery of native digital material from Franco Fortini's last computer stored on floppy disks.

Her notable awards include:

• AIUCD Giuseppe Gigliozzi Award (2020) for the ELA - Eurasian Latin Archive project
• Gemma Biroli prize (2015) for her doctoral thesis on Cialente's unpublished war diary

Dr. CARBÉ actively contributes to the academic community through editorial roles and research leadership. She serves on the editorial boards of "Strumenti critici" and "L'Ospite ingrato" journals, and is the director of ALDiNa (Native Digital Literary Archives). She has secured research funding for projects including Biblio-graph, SCRIPTA, and SOS-DH, demonstrating her ability to lead significant scholarly initiatives. She also serves on the scientific committee of the Franco Fortini Research Center and the Technical-Scientific Committee of the Manuscript Center of the University of Pavia.

Her current research involves the study of native digital literary archives and the development of digital methodologies for literary scholarship, continuing her work on digitally created literary archives through her monograph "Digitale d'autore. Macchine, archivi, letteratura" (2023).