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Associate Professor GIOVANNA DI ROSARIO University of Barcelona Departament de Filologia Romànica Hermeneia Research Group Gran Via de les Corts Catalanes, 585 Barcelona 08007 Spain E-mail: [email protected] Website: www.hermeneia.net PROFILE Giovanna Di Rosario (MA, M.P.S., MSSc.) received her PhD in Digital Culture at the University of Jyväskylä, Finland. Her PhD thesis was one of the two finalists of the prestigious Finnish Agora Doctoral Dissertation Award. She has also been awarded 6 individual scholarships for research in 4 different countries (Italy, Switzerland, Spain, and Finland). From 2001 to 2005, she was an Assistant Professor to the Chair of General Linguistics at the University of Siena. From 2005 to 2006, she was a visiting scholar at the University of Geneva, and from 2007 to 2008, she was a visiting scholar at the University of Jyväskylä. From 2008 to 2010, she worked at the IN3 — Internet Interdisciplinary Institute (Barcelona, Spain) under the direction of Prof. Manuel Castells. In 2010, she moved back to Finland and worked for the department of Art and Culture Studies of the University of Jyväskylä where she taught electronic literature and new media semiotics. Di Rosario is currently an Associate Professor of the University of Barcelona where she is also the Associate Director of Hermeneia research group (www.hermeneia.net) devoted to the study of literature and new media. She is also a research member of the CPST- LERASS, Centre Pluridisciplinaire de Sémiotique Textuelle — Laboratoire d'Études et de Recherches Appliquées en Sciences Sociales, Université de Toulouse 2 — Le Mirail, and of other research groups devoted to the study of literature and new media. In 2013, Di Rosario also worked for the IT University of Copenhagen where she taught digital rhetoric. CURRENT RESEARCH Di Rosario’s research interests are multiple and varied: comparative literature, digital culture, semiotics and semiotics of new media, transmedia storytelling, digital rhetoric and digital aesthetics, and also the theory and practice of translation in the digital environment. INTERZONES Apart from being a member of the Academic Council of the EMJD Interzones and the local co-coordinator (along with Prof. Laura Borràs), Di Rosario contributes to the Interzones Agenda through her expertise in the research areas of critical theory, comparative literature, transmedia storytelling, electronic literature and digital rhetoric. MAIN PUBLICATIONS Di Rosario has published nearly 30 articles in academic journals and/or book chapters devoted to the study of traditional literature and to the study of literature in the digital environment. More recent publications include: "Trans-former la poésie: formes émergeantes de poésies numériques" (2011), "Analysing Electronic Poetry. Three Examples of Textualities in Digital Media" (2013). She co-edited "OLE. Officina di Letteratura Eettronica" (2011), a volume devoted to the study of literature and new technologies, and published a book on electronic poetry, Electronic Poetry. Understanding Poetry in the Digital Environment (2011). Di Rosario is also the managing editor of the International Journal of Transmedia Literacy published by LED Edition (www.transmedialiteracy.net).
