​Dr. Monica Berti

Monica Berti is Assistant Professor at the University of Leipzig (Alexander von Humboldt Chair of Digital Humanities), where she teaches courses in digital philology and digital scholarly editing. She has been working since 2008 with the Perseus Digital Library at Tufts University, where she has also been visiting professor in the Department of Classics. Her research interests are mainly focused on ancient Greece and the digital humanities and she has been extensively publishing and leading projects in both fields. She is currently working on representing quotations and text reuses of ancient lost works and she is leading the Leipzig Open Fragmentary Texts Series (LOFTS), which is part of the Open Philology Project of the Humbolt Chair of Digital Humanities at the University of Leipzig. Two correlated projects of LOFTS are a new digital edition of Athenaeus’ Deipnosophists and new digital edition of the Marmor Parium. She is also currently leading a Sunoikisis program in Digital Classics in Europe. 

 

Dr. Christopher Blackwell

Christopher W. Blackwell was born in Boston, Massachusettes, and grew up in Greenville, South Carolina. He graduated from Greenville Sr. High School in 1986. He graduated summa cum laude in 1990 from Marlboro College, Marlboro, Vermont. He pursued graduate study at in the Classics Department of Duke University as the William H. Willis Fellow, earning a Ph.D. in 1995. He began teaching at Furman University in 1996, where he is currently the Louis G. Forgione University Professor. He has been engaged in digital humanities for 25 years, from work with the Duke Databank of Documentary Papyri and publishing Gramma: Software for Students of Ancient Greek in the 1990s and  editing Dēmos: Classical Athenian Democracy beginning in 2.Since 2000 he has been Project Architect, with Neel Smith, of the Homer Multitext, a project of the Center for Hellenic Studies of Harvard University under the editorship of Casey Dué and Mary Ebbott. This work led Blackwell and Smith to develop the Canonical Text Services protocol, and then the CITE digital library architecture. His research has been funded by the National Science Foundation and the Andrew W. Mellon foundation. In addition to digital projects, Blackwell has published both scholarly and popular books: The Absence of Alexander (Peter Lang, 1998), Alexander the Great, the Story of an Ancient Life (with Thomas Martin; Cambridge University Press, 2014), and Mythology for Dummies (with Amy Hackney Blackwell, 2000).

 

Professor Gregory Crane

Gregory Crane is Professor in the Department of Classics at Tufts University and Alexander von Humboldt Professor of Digital Humanities at the University of Leipzig in Germany. He is also Editor-in-Chief of the Perseus Project and Winnick Family Chair of Technology and Entrepreneurship. At the University of Leipzig is leading the Open Philology Project, whose ultimate goal is to rethink the role of philology in the 21st century and to represent every source text produced in Classical Greek or Latin from antiquity through the present, including texts preserved in manuscript tradition as well as on inscriptions, papyri, ostraca and other written artifacts.