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 joined the Cologne Center for eHumanities (CCeH) as a visiting scholar. Between 2022 and 2023, she worked as a research associate at the CCeH as part of the NFDI consortium Text+. In 2023, she also served as a research associate on the project “History as a Visual Concept: Peter of Poitiers’ Compendium Historiae” at the University of Wuppertal.
Throughout her BA and MA studies in linguistics and philology, Elisa Cugliana focused on researching the Cimbrian language of the Seven Communities of Asiago (Vicenza, Italy) and collaborated on creating a digital dictionary of the same language. For her MA thesis, she developed a digital scholarly edition of a reel-to-reel recording featuring one of the last native speakers of Cimbrian. As part of her PhD, which she completed in February 2022 with summa cum laude in a joint-degree programme between the universities of Cologne and Venice (Ca’ Foscari), she produced a digital edition of a medieval German translation of Marco Polo’s travelogue. In this context, she devised a method to normalise medieval texts using a computational approach.
Since November 2023, she has held the position of junior professor for Digital Humanities with a particular focus on digital scholarly editing at the Institute for Digital Humanities (IDH) of the University of Cologne. Her professorship, affiliated with the Nordrhein-Westfälische Akademie der Wissenschaften und der Künste (AWK), also has her stationed at the CCeH, which serves as the coordination centre for digital projects at the Academy. Among her current research interests, she is dedicated to studying and editing the genre of the sortes, focusing specifically on the medieval German versions of the “Prenostica Socratis Basilei,” a sortes text with Arabic origins. Methodologically, she is particularly interested in the computational turn in scholarly editing and collaborates with international colleagues on the development of strategies for formalising and operationalising 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, 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’, , 9th DHd Conference, Luxemburg and Trier 13.03.2023 – 17.03.2023, 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, Luxemburg 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, Luxemburg 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.