Junior Professor of Digital Humanities with a special focus on digital editions; specializations: Linguistics and philology of Germanic languages and (digital/computational) editing of medieval texts.
elisa[dot]cugliana[at]uni[minus]koeln[dot]de
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During her doctoral studies in 2018, Elisa Cugliana was a visiting researcher at the Cologne Center for eHumanities (CCeH). Between 2022 and 2023, she worked as a research assistant at the CCeH as part of the NFDI consortium Text+. In 2023, she also worked as a research assistant on the project History as a Visual Concept: Peter von Poitiers’ “Compendium historiae” at the University of Wuppertal.
During her BA and MA studies in Linguistics and Philology, Elisa Cugliana focused on researching the Cimbrian language of the Seven Municipalities of Asiago (Vicenza, Italy) and collaborated on the creation of a digital dictionary of this language. For her master’s thesis, she developed a digital edition of a tape recording featuring one of the last native speakers of Cimbrian. As part of her doctorate, which she completed summa cum laude in February 2022 as part of a joint degree from the Universities of Cologne and Venice (Ca’ Foscari), she created a digital edition of a medieval German translation of Marco Polo’s travelogue. In this context, she developed a method for normalizing medieval texts using a computer-aided approach.
Since November 2023, she has been Junior Professor of Digital Humanities with a focus on digital editions at the Institute for Digital Humanities (IDH) at the University of Cologne. As part of her professorship, which is affiliated to the North Rhine-Westphalian Academy of Sciences, Humanities and the Arts (AWK), she is also based at the CCeH, which acts as the Digital Humanities Coordination Center of the North Rhine-Westphalian Academy of Sciences, Humanities and the Arts.
Her current research interests include the study and edition of the genre of lot books, in particular the medieval German versions of the “Prenostica Socratis Basilei”, a lot book of Arabic origin. Methodologically, she is particularly interested in the computational turn in editorial studies and works with international colleagues on the development of strategies for formalizing and operationalizing the editorial workflow.
publications
Bleier, Roman, Eleanor Goerss, Franz Fischer, Sina Krottmaier, Agnese Macchiarelli, Elisa Cugliana and Patrick Sahle. Forthcoming. “History as a Visual Concept: Peter of Poitiers’ Compendium historiae.” In: Manuscript Studies 9.1.
Cugliana, Elisa and Tessa Gengnagel. 2024. Diplomatische Transkription. In: KONDE Weißbuch. Ed. by Selina Galka and Helmut W. Klug in collaboration with Susanne Höfer in the project “Enlarging ‘Weißbuch Digitale Edition'”. Accessed: 21.5.2024. Handle: hdl.h andle.net/11471/562.50.66. PID: o:konde.66.
Cugliana, Elisa and Tessa Gengnagel. 2024. Diplomatische Edition. In: KONDE Weißbuch. Ed. by Selina Galka and Helmut W. Klug in collaboration with Susanne Höfer in the project “Enlarging ‘Weißbuch Digitale Edition'”. Accessed: 21.5.2024. Handle: hdl.h andle.net/11471/562.50.65. PID: o:konde.65.
Cugliana, Elisa, Andreas Kuczera, Max Grüntgens, Aengus Ward, Joris J. van Zundert, Tara Andrews, and Ronald Haentjens Dekker. 2024. ‘The Epistemological Value of the Computational Turn in Scholarly Editing’, 10th DHd Conference, Passau 26.02.24-01.03.24, online: https://doi.org/10.5281/ZENODO.10698440.
Cugliana, Elisa, Sina Krottmaier, and Lennart Rouxel. 2024. ‘Über Den Text Hinaus: Die Edition Eines Historiogramms’,10th DHd Conference, Passau 26.02.24 – 01.03.24, online: https://doi.org/10.5281/ZENODO.10706162.
Cugliana, Elisa. 2023. ‘Coding Editions. Computational Approaches to the Editing of Pre-Modern Texts.’, 9th DHd Conference, Luxembourg and Trier 13.03.2023 – 17.03.2023, online : https://doi.org/10.5281/ZENODO.7715285.
Blumtritt, Jonathan, Elisa Cugliana, et al. 2023. ‘Offene Editionen – Die Task Area Editionen Im NFDI-Konsortium Text+’, 9th DHd Conference, Luxembourg and Trier 13.03.2023 – 17.03.2023, online : https://doi.org/10.5281/ZENODO.7715484.
Cugliana, Elisa. 2022. “A Multidimensional Digital Edition of the Medieval German Marco Polo”. Dissertation in Cotutelle between Ca’ Foscari University of Venice and the University of Cologne [double peer review], online: http://dspace.unive.it/handle/10579/22707.
Ciotti, Fabio, Elena Corradini, Elisa Cugliana, Giulia D’Agostino, Lorenzo Ferroni, Franz Fischer, Roberto Rosselli Del Turco, Patrick Sahle. 2022. “Manifesto per le edizioni scientifiche digitali.” In: Umanistica Digitale 6 (12), 103–108, online: https://dx.doi.org/10.6092/issn.2532-8816/14814.
Cugliana, Elisa and Joris Van Zundert. 2022. “A Computational Turn in Digital Philology.” In: Filologia Germanica / Germanic Philology 14, 47–72.
Cugliana, Elisa and Gioele Barabucci. 2022. “Signs of the Times: Medieval Punctuation, Diplomatic Encoding and Rendition.” In: Journal of the Text Encoding Initiative 14, online: https://doi.org/10.4000/jtei.3715.
Cugliana, Elisa. 2020. “Exploring a German version of Marco Polo’s ‘Devisement dou Monde’.” In: Ecdotica 16, 9–32.
Cugliana, Elisa. 2019. “On the Traces of Realia in the ENHG Marco Polo.” In: Filologia Germanica / Germanic Philology suppl. 1, 77–97.
See also:
“Marco Polo and the Art of Editing,” podcast interview, Coding Codices 4 (2020), published by the Digital Medievalist Postgraduate Committee, ed. by Tessa Gengnagel, https://podcast.digitalmedievalist.org/episode-4-marco-polo-and-the-art-of-editing/.
Online dictionary of the Cimbrian language of the Seven Municipalities of Asiago, with Prof. Luca Panieri, http://dizionario.cimbri7comuni.it.