Chiara Palladino

Chiara Palladino is Assistant Professor of Classics at Furman University, Chair of the Interdisciplinary Minor in Ancient Greek and Roman Studies, and currently a fellow for the LECTIO Network at KU Leuven. With a background in Classical Philology, Dr. Palladino started working on digital and computational methods in 2016, when she joined the Alexander von Humboldt Chair of Digital Humanities at the University of Leipzig. Since then, she has specialized in the analysis of premodern spatial narratives and in the development of AI models for the automatic analysis of Ancient Greek texts. Her collaborations include some of the most important Digital Classics initiatives, such as the Perseus Digital Library, the Pelagios Network, and the Digital Classicist Wiki. She is also regularly featured as a lecturer in the open access Sunoikisis Digital Classics Seminars and in the Digital Humanities Summer Institute at the University of Victoria. Her current research embraces the fields of text alignment, Named Entity Recognition, Sentiment Analysis, geospatial modeling, and semantic annotation. Her most recent book, Can’t Touch This: Digital Approaches to Materiality in Cultural Heritage, co-edited with Gabriel Bodard and published in Open Access by Ubiquity Press, examines important epistemological and ethical issues in the digital representation of cultural heritage of the premodern world.