Valentina Asciutti

Valentina is trained as a classicist. She has an MA by research in Classics from Durham University and in 2009 she completed a PhD at King’s College London on Latin verse inscriptions from Roman Britain. While completing her PhD Valentina started to develop an interest and some experience in Digital Humanities. Before joining CeRch Valentina worked as an epigraphy researcher at the Centre for Computing in the Humanities at King’s College London (now Department of Digital Humanities), and was involved in two major digitisation projects: Inscriptions of Roman Cyrenaica (IRCyr) and Inscriptions of Roman Tripolitania (IRT).

Her previous experience at CeRch involves working on the JISC and AHRC funded project www.arts-humanities.net and collaboration on the EU funded project CENDARI. Valentina is now a Research Associate at the Centre for e-Research where she collaborates on the EU funded project DASISH.

As a Classicist, Valentina’s background is all primarily focussed on Latin Language and Literature, Latin Epigraphy and Classical Archaeology. Her most recent research includes the analysis and encoding of Greek and Latin texts, collaborative research and the exploration of digital technologies and the application of social media in Digital Humanities.

Research interests

• Collaborative Research in Digital Humanities
• Community building activities
• Research Infrastructures
• Tools in Digital Humanities
• Digital Classics
• Social Media
• Text Encoding
• Latin Literature and Language
• Epigraphy