Stefano Milonia

Stefano Milonia is a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Postdoctoral Fellow at the Musikwissenschaftliches Institut within the Faculty of Humanities at Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen. He is also a Visiting Scholar at the Schulich School of Music, McGill University, and has held research positions at the University of Warwick, University of Cambridge, and Scuola Superiore Meridionale in Naples.

• PhD in Scienze del Testo (Romance Philology), Sapienza Università di Roma and École Pratique des Hautes Études-Paris, 2018
• M.A. in Scienze del Testo, Sapienza Università di Roma, 2014
• B.A. in Literature, Sapienza Università di Roma, 2012

His research focuses on medieval European lyric, particularly the interplay between text and music in Occitan and Old French traditions. He specializes in contrafacture, musical imitation, and digital humanities approaches to medieval song. His work bridges philology, musicology, and computational methods to explore textual and musical transmission in the Middle Ages.

His recent publications and digital projects reveal a strong trend in creating comprehensive, open-access digital resources for medieval music, such as Troubadour Melodies and Medieval Melody. These works emphasize critical editing, network analysis of musical borrowing, and interdisciplinary digital scholarship, positioning him at the forefront of digital medieval musicology.

His scientific awards include being a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Postdoctoral Fellow. He is also a member of the H-France DH Committee and the Association Internationale d’Études Occitanes, and has served as editor-in-chief of the journal Polisemie: Rivista di poesia iper-contemporanea.

Stefano Milonia leads significant research initiatives including MIME: Musical Imitation in Medieval Europe (1110–1300), MedMel: The Music of Medieval Vernacular Lyric, and Connecting Medieval Music. These projects involve collaborative digital editing, database development, and international scholarly networks, reflecting his commitment to open, collaborative, and technologically advanced humanities research.