Giovanni Pietro Vitali

Giovanni Pietro Vitali is associate professor of Digital Humanities at Versailles Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines University – Paris-Saclay University and member of the board of Humanistica, the francophone association for Digital Humanities. Previously he was Marie Curie Research Fellow at University College Cork in collaboration with the University of Reading and New York University. His MSCA project, Last Letters from the World Wars: Forming Italian Language, Identity and Memory in Texts of Conflict, dealt with a linguistic and thematic analysis of the last letters of people sentenced to death during the First and the Second World Wars. From 2014 to 2018, he worked in France as a lecturer of Italian Studies at the University of Lorraine and the University of Poitiers. In 2018 he became an associate researcher at University of Oxford where he is the Digital Humanities advisor of the Prismatic Translation project (https://prismaticjaneeyre.org/).

He holds a Ph.D. in Linguistic Sciences at the University for Foreigners of Perugia and in Italian Literature at the University of Lorraine, in a dual doctorate international programme. His thesis is focused on the analysis of proper names, notably noms de guerre, in the works of the partisan author Beppe Fenoglio.

His main research interests centre on: Digital Humanities, Linguistics, Dialectology, Onomastics, Contemporary Literatures and cultural studies. In 2020, he published a new monograph on the language and themes of Italian political music entitled Voices of Dissent. Interdisciplinary Approaches to New Italian Popular and Political Music.

One of the main aims of his research activity is to describe the contemporary perception of cultural and social events of historical heritage.