Eleonora Lima
Eleonora Lima is a Research Fellow in the Discipline of Digital Humanities at the Trinity Long Room Hub where she works with Dr Jennifer Edmond on the EU funded project Knowledge Technologies for Democracy (KT4D).
She has published extensively on the interconnections between literature, science, and technology, with a special focus on cybernetics and on the impact of Artificial Intelligence on arts and culture. Her research interests also include literature and science, as well as film and media studies. Her most recent book, Le tecnologie dell’informazione nella scrittura di Italo Calvino e Paolo Volponi. Tre storie di rimediazione (2020) has been published by Firenze University Press.
Currently she is working on her third book, the first comprehensive cultural history of computing in Italy through the lens of literature (project website: https://narratingcomputing.com/). Her work investigates how the advent of computers and information science in the 1950s prompted literature to rethink the status of its own tool – language – as well as the definition of human creativity. The project aims to provide the first detailed history of computing in Italian literature, from the mainframe computer era of the mid-1950s, to the advent of personal computers in the 1980s and the early days of the Web in the 1990s, and the present times of ubiquitous computing and Web 2.0. Her findings will be disseminated in a monograph which is currently in preparation.
Previously Eleonora was an EU Marie Skłodowska-Curie Postdoctoral Fellow (2018-2020) at Trinity College Dublin where she worked on a project titled Mapping Remediation in Italian Literature Beyond the Digital Revolution, devoted to the intermedial dialogue between Italian literature and computer science.
She holds a BA in Italian Philology (University of Florence, 2005), a Masters in Modern Philology (University of Florence, 2008), and a PhD in Italian and Media Studies (University of Wisconsin-Madison, 2015). She was previously a Postdoctoral Fellow in Italian at the University of Toronto (2017-2018). She has worked as Sessional Lecturer in the Department of Digital Humanities at King’s College London.
Since 2019, Eleonora has been a member of the Ethically Aligned Design for the Arts Committee, a part of the IEEE Global Initiative on Ethics of Autonomous and Intelligent Systems. The Committee engages in policy research and advocacy for an ethical practice and design of Artificial Intelligence in the arts.
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