Chiara Salvagni
PhD Student (with Classics)
Email chiara.salvagni@kcl.ac.uk
Digital Humanities
King’s College London
26-29 Drury Lane
London
WC2B 5RL
Chiara Salvagni is from Bologna, Italy. She studied at the Alma Mater Studiorum, University of Bologna, where she obtained the Master Degree in Humanities on 24/03/2006 with a final exam on “Theory of Progress and position of man in the parodos of Antigone and in the second stasimon of Oedipus Rex”. She then pursued her studies in Classics, achieving the Specialization Degree in Philology, Literature and Classics Tradition on 27/03/2009 with a final exam on “Digital Edition in XML/TEI format. An example: Thucydides, Pericles’ Funeral oration for the death in the first year of the war”.
She is in the first year of her MPhil/PhD. Her interests are in analyzing the actual possibilities of creating a critical edition of Book 1 of the Odyssey of Homer in Digital Format focusing on the classics and the digital side. She is under the supervision of Professor Willard McCarty (DDH) and Professor Giambattista D’Alessio (Classics).
The title of her thesis is 'A Digital Critical Edition Of Homer: a possible future with which perspectives and with which possible consequences?'