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What role do the traditional guardians of cultural values play in the evolving realtionship between literary disciplines and new technology? The essays collected in this volume give a vivid snapshot of an ongoing discussion amongst academic humanists, philosophers, literary critics, and the technologists who challenge and support them. Drawn from the first 'Computer, Literature, and Philology' conference, these papers indicate new practical possibilities and derive new theoretical insights form the continuing development and application of IT tools and resources in the Humanities.

Auhtors include: W. McCarty (King's College London), F. Marcos Marin (Universidad Autonoma, Madrid), A. Renear (University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign), L. Burnard (Oxford University), F. Ciotti (Universita' di Roma La Sapienza), C. Warwick (University of Sheffield), Federico Pellizzi (Universita' di Bologna), A. Zampolli (Universita' di Pisa), Elisabeth Burr (Duisburg Universitat), G. Gigliozzi (Universita' di Roma La Sapienza), D. Robey (University of Reading), M, Guerrieri (Universita' di Roma Tor Vergata), S. Bjork - L. Holmquist (Viktoria Institute, Goteborg), L. Calvi (Eindhoven University of Technology).

Domenico Fiormonte (PhD, University of Edinburgh, 2002) teaches Informatica 'Applicata al testo letterario' (Literary Computing) at the University of Rome Torvergata and 'Scrittura per i Nuovi Media' (Writing for New Media) at the University of Rome 'La Sapienza.
He has worked for two years as web project manager of the distance education courses of RAI Educational, the educational branch of the Italian public TV. His research and main publication focus on electronic writing, computer-assisted second language writing, continental textual criticism, and digital philology. After a 'Laurea' degree in Italian Literature, he spent one year at Michigan Technological University studying rhetoric and technical communication. Between 1996 and 1998 he was awarded by the Italian and Spanish governments two joint scholarships supporting research on the influence of the computer on Spanish and Italian contemporary prose.
He is founder and first organizer of the 'Computer, Literature and Philology' seminar series (Edinburgh 1998, Rome 1999, Alicante 2000, Duisburg 2001). With Ferdinanda Cremascoli is co-author of 'Manuale di scrittura' (Turin: Bollati Boringhieri, 1998), the first Italian writing handbook with an entire section devoted to electronic writing.