Giovanni Vitali
Associate Professor Of Cultural History And Digital Humanities
Paris, Ile-de-France
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Top SchoolGiovanni Vitali is an associate professor of Cultural History and Digital Humanities at Versailles Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines University, combining deep training in linguistic sciences with eight years of interdisciplinary research across Europe. His work bridges computational methods and close reading—most notably a Marie Skłodowska-Curie project analyzing last letters from World Wars I and II to trace language, identity and memory. He has held research and teaching posts at Oxford, UCC, Paris-Sorbonne and French universities, contributing digital-humanities expertise to projects like the Prismatic Translation and the eBalzac digital edition. Giovanni’s profile mixes traditional philology and corpus-driven analysis, reflecting a rare ability to turn archival texts into data-informed cultural insight. Based in Paris, he is fluent in Italian scholarship and European research networks, often advising on digital editions and methodological design. Colleagues value him for translating complex historical questions into reproducible digital workflows that open new avenues for literary and memory studies.
8 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD at Université de LorraineDoctor of Philosophy - PhD, PhD in Linguistic Sciences., Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, PhD in Linguistic Sciences. at Università per Stranieri di PerugiaLaurea, Letteratura e lingua italiana, Laurea, Letteratura e lingua italiana at Università di Pisa
Italian, English, French, Spanish
Github Skills (13)
geospatial8
kepler8
visualization8
kepler-gl7
large-scale7
gis7
scale7
data-visualization6
geospatial-analysis6
digital-humanities5
react2
nextjs2
typescript1
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
digitalkoine/gpv_site
Mar 2024 - Feb 2025
Contributions:104 pushes, 118 branches in 10 months
digitalkoine/formation_tei
Mar 2022 - Mar 2025
Contributions:10 pushes, 1 branch in 3 years
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