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Giovanna Di Martino

Former doctoral student
Research Associate
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A photo of Giovanna, smiling, standing in front of a mountain in the sunshine.
Dr Giovanna Di Martino is Community and Project Manager for the AHRC-funded Digital Humanities project Data/Culture at the University of Oxford's School of Anthropology and team member on the APGRD's John Fell-funded Exploring Digital Futures project. She is also Honorary Leventis Fellow at UCL (2024-2027), and Fellow at the Harvard's Centre for Hellenic Studies (2026-2027). 
 
She develops new forms of collaborative engagement between technical professionals, scholars, and datasets. She is also co-Principal Investigator of a BA/Leverhulme project on Greek drama in Strasbourg (1540–1609), where she combines theatre practice, digital humanities, and textual analysis. For more information see Giovanna's website.
Selected publications

Giovanna has recently co-edited a volume for De Gruyter: Translating Ancient Greek Drama in Early Modern Europe: Theory and Practice (15th-16th Centuries) and two special issues for Skenè: Memory and Performance: Classical Reception in Early Modern Festivals (June and December 2024). She has also published several journal articles on the translation of Greek and Latin texts throughout history. She co-leads the APGRD research project Performing Classics under Fascism, for which she co-edited two special issues for CRJ and Brill's Fascism. She is the author of the monograph Translating and Adapting Aeschylus’ Seven Against Thebes in the United States (Skenè, 2020) and is currently working on her second monograph for OUP on Aeschylus’ Reception: Translation, Adaptation and Performance.