Emmanuela CARBE'

Emmanuela Carbé is Associate Professor of Contemporary Italian Literature (LICO-01/A) at the Department of Humanities, Ca' Foscari University of Venice, and a member of the Venice Centre for Digital and Public Humanities (VeDPH). Her research combines authorial philology and digital humanities, with a focus on born-digital literary archives, which she investigates through a forensic-philological approach. She has devoted to this subject the monograph Digitale d'autore. Macchine, archivi, letterature (FUP-USiena Press, 2023).

She trained as a philologist at the University of Pavia (PhD in Modern Philology, 2013), with an annotated edition of Fausta Cialente's unpublished war diary (Gemma Biroli Award 2015), and at the Master in Informatica del testo ed edizione elettronica (Siena, 2014). At Pavia she was a grant holder on PAD–Pavia Archivi Digitali (2013-2018), the pioneering Italian infrastructure for born-digital authorial archives. At the University of Siena (2018-2025) she held research fellowships and positions as Junior and Tenure-Track Researcher, working on Franco Fortini's digital archive at the Fortini Centre and on the Eurasian Latin Archive project, for which she received the AIUCD Giuseppe Gigliozzi Award (2020). She was also Principal Investigator of the BiGraFo project (Biblio-grafo. A semantic catalogue for the Franco Fortini Research Centre; F-CUR call, University of Siena, 2023-24) and scientific lead of the SOS-DH project for the enhancement of Digital Humanities laboratories (F-LAB call, 2022), coordinating the recovery of born-digital materials held at the Humanities Area Library, including content from Imre Toth's personal computer and floppy-disk copies of Franco Fortini's last computer. She took part in the PRIN project Lettere in rete, devoted to Eugenio Montale's correspondence (2023-2025), and served as a consultant for the FISR Serica project (2022). In 2026 she was awarded Ca' Foscari's SPIN grant (Supporting Principal INvestigators) for the project BLADE (Born-digital Literary Archives DNA Exploration).

She has devoted to Fausta Cialente a monograph on her war diary, La scrittura necessaria (Artemide, 2021), and edited the editions of Un inverno freddissimo, Il vento sulla sabbia, Ballata levantina and Interno con figure for nottetempo (2022-2025).

Since 2024 she has coordinated the ALDiNa project – Archivi Letterari Digitali Nativi – which she co-founded, now a Special Interest Group of AIUCD in collaboration with CLARIN-IT; she serves on the AIUCD board (2024-26), the Scientific-Technical Committee of the Centro Manoscritti (Pavia) and the scientific committee of the Franco Fortini Centre, and has served on the board of the inter-university centre for comparative studies I Deug-Su. She is a member of the editorial board of «Strumenti critici», of the scientific committee of the book series «Strumenti di Filologia e Critica» (Pacini), and of the steering committee of the series «Carteggi e Materiali» of the Fortini Centre (FUP-USiena Press). In 2023 she co-organised the AIUCD annual conference La memoria digitale. Forme del testo e organizzazione della conoscenza with Francesco Stella.

She has held institutional service roles: at the University of Siena she was a member of the task force of the University's communication delegate and of the working group for the University web portal (2023-2025), and communication delegate of the Department of Philology and Criticism of Ancient and Modern Literatures (2024/25); she was also part of the APRE working group for Horizon Europe, Cluster 2 – Cultural Heritage (2020). At Ca' Foscari she serves on the executive board of VeDPH, on the academic board of the PhD programme in Italian Studies and on the teaching board of the MA in Digital and Public Humanities (for which she contributes to the evaluation of international student applications), and is a member of the DigIN Connected Community of EUTOPIA and of DiPText-KC, the CLARIN Knowledge Centre.

She has been Visiting Professor at Seoul National University (2024), Visiting Scholar at VeDPH (2022) and Visiting Researcher at Constantine the Philosopher University, Nitra (2019), and has given seminars and lectures in Bern, Kiel, Barcelona and Seoul. In the MA in Digital and Public Humanities she teaches Digital Literary Studies, Modelling and Visualizing Textual Data, and Textual Heritage and Digital Preservation; at Ca' Foscari's Department of Environmental Sciences, Informatics and Statistics she teaches Storytelling for Hospitality; for nine years she taught Digital Libraries at the Siena Master in Informatica del testo ed edizione elettronica, serving on its faculty board from 2019 to 2025. She supervises and co-supervises four PhD projects on born-digital literary archives, forensic methods and the history of word processing (Universities of Bologna and Pavia).

She is the author of the novels Mio salmone domestico (Laterza, 2013) and L'unico viaggio che ho fatto (minimum fax, 2017), as well as short stories in collective volumes. Among her most recent stories, Controspazio appears in Templi per lombardi laboriosi (Humboldt, 2024). She has served on literary prize juries, including the selection jury of the Premio Campiello Giovani (2003-2020) and the Settembrini Prize jury (2014-2020).