People

Isabella Magni, Editor and Principal Investigator

Isabella Magni is (tenured) Lecturer in Digital Humanities at the University of Sheffield (Sheffield, UK). In addition to her work as Editor of the Petrarchive, Isabella is also Co-Investigator of the SCWAReD project in collaboration with the HathiTrust Research Center, and Editor of Italian Paleography (with Lia Markey and Maddalena Signorini). She teaches and conducts research in digital humanities and digital philology, Medieval and Early modern literature, history of the book, Petrarch and Dante. She co-edited a volume on Interpretation and visual poetics in Medieval and Early Modern texts (2021), and edited a special issue on Digital Paleography for the Early Modern Digital Review journal (2020). Isabella serves as Associate Editor for the Renaissance and Reformation / Renaissance et Réforme peer-reviewed jounral (2024-present), as Editor for the Early Modern Digital Review journal (2022-present), and as Digital Editor for Textual Cultures journal (2019-present). She is currently working on a new digital edition of the Albizi Memorial Book and a monograph on forms and textualities of Medieval memorial books.
Before joining the University of Sheffield, Isabella was Postdoctoral Fellow at HTRC and Indiana University (2021-2022); Postdoctoral Associate in Italian and Digital Humanities at Rutgers University (2019-2021); and Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow in Digital Paleography at the Newberry Library in Chicago (2017-2019). She earned her PhD in Italian and Medieval Studies from Indiana University (2017).
Homepage: https://www.sheffield.ac.uk/dhi/about-dhi/people/isabella-magni.

H. Wayne Storey, Founding Editor and Co-Principal Investigator

H. Wayne Storey is Professor Emeritus of Italian and Medieval Studies at Indiana University, Bloomington. He has researched and published extensively on digital and material philology, textual editing, Medieval and Renaissance Italian and Old Occitan literatures. Among his notable publications are Transcription and Visual Poetics in the Early Italian Lyric (Garland Press, 1993), Rerum vulgarium fragmenta: Facsimile del codice autografo Vaticano Latino 3195 (Antenore, 2003-2004) and Petrarch and the Textual Origins of Interpretation (Brill, 2007). Storey is President Society for Textual Scholarship
Homepage: https://frit.indiana.edu/about/emeriti-faculty/storey-h.html

John A. Walsh, Founding Editor and Co-Principal Investigator

John A. Walsh is the Director of the HathiTrust Research Center and Associate Professor of Information and Library Science in the Luddy School of Informatics, Computing, and Engineering at Indiana University. His research applies computational methods to the study of literary and historical documents. Walsh is an editor of digital scholarly editions, including: the Petrarchive, the Algernon Charles Swinburne Project, and the Chymistry of Isaac Newton. He developed Comic Book Markup Language (CBML) for scholarly encoding of comics and graphic novels, and TEI Boilerplate, for publishing documents encoded according to the Text Encoding Initiative (TEI) Guidelines for Electronic Text Encoding and Interchange. He is the founding and current Technical Editor of Digital Humanities Quarterly, an open-access online journal published by the Alliance of Digital Humanities Organizations. Walsh’s research interests include: computational literary studies; textual studies and bibliography; text technologies; book history; 19th-century British literature, poetry and poetics; and comic books.
Homepage: http://johnwalsh.name.

Francesco Marco Aresu, Editor (2023-present)

Francesco Marco Aresu is assistant professor of Italian Studies at the University of Pennsylvania. He earned his Ph.D. in Italian literature (with a secondary field in Classical Philology) from Harvard University. He graduated in Letters from the Università degli Studi di Cagliari in Sardinia, and has Masters from Stanford University and Indiana University. His areas of expertise are Medieval and Renaissance Italian literature, manuscript studies and history of the book, medieval and humanistic philology, Sardinian literature, textual criticism, and literary theory. He has published on Dante’s intertextuality, the first illustrated incunable of Dante’s Commedia, Italian metrics and metricology, Boccaccio’s Teseida, Petrarca’s sestinas, Baroque theater, Folengo’s metatextuality, Alberti’s early works, and figuralism in literature. He edited and translated eighteenth-century Latin hymns for the Centro di studi filologici sardi. He is editor for the Petrarchive and associate editor for Heliotropia. His first book, Manuscript Poetics: Materiality and Textuality in Medieval Italian Literature, came out in 2023 with the University of Notre Dame Press.
Before joining the Department of Francophone, Italian, and Germanic Studies at the University of Pennsylvania, he taught Italian and Medieval Studies at Wesleyan University.
Homepage: https://italian.sas.upenn.edu/people/francesco-marco-aresu

Paolo Scartoni, Chief Associate Editor and Encoder (2020-present)

Paolo Scartoni is Lecturer in Italian at Washington University in St. Louis. His research focuses on the relationship between music and language in medieval Italian literature. He earned his Ph.D. in Italian Studies from Rutgers University (2024) where he defended a dissertation entitled The Sound of Morals: Figures of Grammar and Music in Dante.
Before joining the Department of Romance Languages and Literatures at WashU, he designed and taught courses on Italian language and culture at Rutgers University and Vassar College. He holds a Diploma in Piano from the Conservatory of Siena and a Master of Music in Fortepiano and Historical Piano from the Conservatory of Perugia.
Homepage: https://artsci.washu.edu/faculty-staff/paolo-scartoni

Maria Teresa De Luca, Associate Editor and Encoder (2020-present)

Maria Teresa De Luca is a Ph.D. student in Italian at Rutgers University and adjunct lecturer in Italian at Columbia University. Her main research focuses on narrative theory and history of the novel, and their intersection with Italian linguistics and theory of language in the twentieth and twenty-first century, along with standing interests in Medieval Italian literature and language, especially Dante’s understanding of the nature and limits of language.
She has extensive experience working on the main Italian etymological and historical dictionaries (LEI - Lessico Etimologico Italiano, DI - Deonomasticon Italicum and TLIO - Tesoro della Lingua Italiana delle Origini). Maria Teresa is also working on the reconstruction of the editorial history of manuscript Ashb. 956, one of the very few southern Italian vernacular translations of the Liber abaci by Leonardo Pisano, and a strategic linguistic and lexical source for understanding southern Italian culture of the Middle Ages. She is co-editor of the newly founded Digital Humanities project Divine Networks: An Interactive Visualization of Dante’s Comedy. She previously studied at the Universität des Saarlandes where she obtained a Ph.D. in Italian linguistics. Her dissertation, ‘La terminologia linguistica in Lingua nostra (1939-1978)’ was awarded the premio Giovanni Nencioni by the Accademia della Crusca.
Homepage: https://italian.rutgers.edu/people/phd-students/phd-students/398-maria-teresa-de-luca

Giulia Benghi, Associate Editor and Encoder (2020-present)

Giulia Benghi received her Ph.D. in Italian and Manuscript Studies at Indiana University in 2020, with a dissertation that examines the material and philological conditions of the codex Cologny, Bodmer 131. Her main research interests include manuscript tradition and literature in fourteenth- and fifteenth-century Italy, material philology, codicology, and textual editing. She presented on Boccaccio’s Scholarship and His Copy Method at the 2013 Medieval Studies Conference in Kalamazoo and on the codex Cologny Bodmer 131 at the 2015 Binghamton Conference on Italian Songbooks. Her essay on the transcriptional habits employed by scribes for the five genres of Petrarch’s RVF in the late fourteenth century appeared in the journal “Textual Cultures” in Spring 2020, issue 13:1, titled Transcribing Petrarch’s Genres in the Late Fourteenth Century. An Ongoing Conversation with the Observations from MMS Cologny Bodmer 131 and Gambalunga SC-Ms. 93.

Past Contributors

Abraham Kim, Web Developer (2017-2020)

Morgan Anderson, Encoder (2019-2020)

Rebecca Parker, Encoder (2018)

Lino Mioni, Encoder (2016)

Lino Mioni is Subject Librarian for Romance Languages and Literatures, Latin American Studies, and Linguistics at the Washington University Libraries in St. Louis, Missouri.
Homepage: https://library.wustl.edu/directory/lino-mioni/

Olivia Wikle, Encoder (2016)

Erica Hayes, Encoder (2016)

Grace Thomas, Research Assistant and Encoder (2014-2016)

Grace Thomas is Digital Collections Specialist for the Library of Congress Web Archiving Team.

Laura Pence, Visual Index Designer (2013-2014)

Allison M. McCormack, Research Assistant and Encoder (2013-14)

Allison McCormack is Original Cataloger for Special Collections at the University of Utah’s Marriott Library.
Homepage: http://allisonmmccormack.wordpress.com