User:PaoloMonella

Paolo Monella is a Researcher (type A) in Latin and Digital Humanities and DH responsible for the PAGES Project (https://web.uniroma1.it/pages) at Sapienza University of Rome since 2021.

Home page
http://www.paolomonella.it

CV
He holds a PhD in Classics (University of Palermo, 2006). He taught Latin language and literature at UCLA as a visiting lecturer in 2004 and 2007/08. In 2012 he was a post-doc fellow in Digital Humanities at the Centro Interdipartimentale "Beniamino Segre" of the Accademia dei Lincei. From 2008 to 2021 he was a lecturer in Digital Classics at the University of Palermo. Since 2013 he curated the TEI XML encoding and other DH aspects of ALIM (Archivio della Latinità Italiana del Medioevo). In 2019/20 he was a visiting scholar in Digital Textual Scholarship at the Venice Centre for Digital and Public Humanities of Ca' Foscari University, where he worked on the creation of a LOD-oriented digital model (specifically an ontology) for graphematics and textual philology. Since 2018 he is the Coordinator of the Unione Accademica Nazionale (UAN) information technology support group, and since 2021 a member of the AIUCD (Italian DH Association) Board.

Publications and research areas
He published a book on the myth of Procne and Philomela ("Procne e Filomela. Dal mito al simbolo letterario", Pàtron Editore, Bologna 2005) as well as articles on Latin literature – mostly on classical poetry – and (since 2008) on digital scholarly editions (DSEs). In 2016 he completed a multi-layered DSE of the "De nomine" by Urus Beneventanus (http://www.unipa.it/paolo.monella/ursus), and in 2020 one of "Chronicon" by Romualdus Salernitanus (http://www.unipa.it/paolo.monella/romualdus). In 2020 he published a book on digital methods in classical teaching.

Current research
He is currently working on a critical edition (both printed and digital) of books 11-13 of Priscian's Ars Grammatica within the ERC Project PAGES.