Elisabetta Magnanti


Dott.ssa Dott.ssa.mag. Dr. Elisabetta Magnanti

Maria-Theresien-Straße 9
1090 Wien
Room: 1.09

T: +43-1-4277-40858
elisabetta.magnanti@univie.ac.at

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I am a University Assistant in the Department of History at the University of Vienna, where I completed my PhD in History (Key Research Area: Digital Humanities) under the co-supervision of the University of St Andrews (2024). 

After obtaining a first-level MSc in Computer Science for Electronic Text Processing (2019) and a MA in Germanic Philology (2020), I undertook further training at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and the University of Oxford in machine learning and artificial intelligence for big data and text processing.

Prior to joining the University of Vienna in 2021, I was affiliated with the Department for Science and Information Technology at the headquarters of the French National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS) in Paris. 

My research specialises in the application of computational methods to palaeographical and philological analysis of Old English and Anglo-Latin source material. In collaboration with Mark Faulkner (Trinity College Dublin), I have been co-developing Ansund, a project harnessing computer vision and machine learning to create a new, exhaustive, open-access corpus of Old English.

At Vienna, I teach as part of Digital Humanities master's programme offering courses on computer vision for medieval manuscripts, computational palaeography and stemmatology, TEI-XML encoding, digital scholarly editing, and textual criticism.