Giovanna Roz Gastaldi

Curriculum Vitae

Education | Languages | Professional Experience | Research Focus | Interests | Selected Projects | Presentations | Publications | Association Membership | Volunteer Work

Education:

1996 - 1997
COREP-CISI, University of Turin, Italy
Masters Degree in Multimedia Technology and Communication.
Thesis: Report on Research Conducted While a Visiting Scholar at Brown University.
Supervisor: Professor Massimo Riva, Italian Studies, Brown University.

1987- 1995
Department of Classics, University of Turin, Italy
Italian Degree in Classics (Latin and Greek) with a thesis in Latin Literature: Conflict between Emperor Theodosius I and Usurper Maximus: Portraits of the two antagonists from Latin sources.
Supervisor: Professor Italo Lana, Department of Classics.

July 1987
Classical High School Degree (Maturità di Liceo Classico)

Languages:

ENGLISH:
December 1989
University of Cambridge, England
Cambridge Certificate of Proficiency in English.

Fall 1987; Summer 1986
University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada
English Language Institute, Non-Degree Programs.

French:
June 1993
Alliance Française, Diplôme de Langue Française
Spanish:
Advanced speaking and reading knowledge.
German:
Intermediate reading knowledge.
Latin and Ancient Greek:
Advanced Reading, writing and translating.

Professional Experience:

07-2002/present
Brown University, ITG, Providence, RI
Research Analyst for the Instructional Technology Group (ITG), Computing and Information Services(CIS).

2000 / present
Brown University, Italian Studies, Providence, RI
Adjunct Lecturer in Italian Studies (3-year appointment).

12-1999 / 06-2002
Brown University, STG, Providence, RI
Research Analyst at the Brown University Scholarly Technology Group (STG).

01-1998 / 11-1999
Brown University, STG, Providence, RI
Research Assistant at STG.

07-1997 / 12-1997
Brown University, Providence, RI
Visiting Scholar at the Italian Studies Department and at the Brown University Multimedia Lab.

In Italy:
1991 -1996
Private lessons in Latin, Greek and Italian to High School students

1991-1994
A.I.C.C. (Italian Association of Classical Culture): organizing committee

1987-1994
Turin BookFair (yearly): weekly employment for publishing company Cittastudi-Utet

Research Focus:

  • SGML (Standard Generalized Markup Language) / XML (Extensible Markup Language) / TEI (Text Encoding Initiative) encoding applied to the Humanities

  • Issues of scholarly digitization of manuscripts and incunabula

  • Image editing, cataloguing and encoding of early printed books

  • Relational databases: organization, design, encoding and web delivery

  • Pedagogical applications of digitized and encoded materials, including audio recordings

  • Website editing and development, with special focus on educational projects

Interests:

  • Multimedia technologies and their use in the humanities and linguistics
  • Pedagogical benefits of hypertext in creative writing and foreign language teaching
  • Computer aid to people with disabilities
  • Medieval and Renaissance Italian, Latin and Greek languages, literature and art/archeology.
  • Computer aided educational programs in developing countries

Selected Projects:

  • 2001-present: Conclusiones DCCC publice disputandae1. STG lead for one of five faculty projects awarded a CIS Faculty grant. Development of a web-based dynamic annotation system attached to an XML encoded and delivered text. Once released scholars around the world will be invited to participate. Students may incorporate the website into their Renaissance curriculum.

  • 1999-2002: Decameron Web Project.2 Development of SGML-encoded texts and related search features in collaboration with the Italian Studies Department. Project documentation and presentation at international conferences. Student training in SGML encoding, Internet standards, audio and image editing. General consulting as member of the Editorial Board.

  • 1999-2002: The H. W. Sheridan Center for Teaching and Learning.3 Website management and development. Consulting on educational application of technology.

  • 1999-2002: STG Website editing and development.4

  • 2000-2001: A & L Tirocchi Dressmakers.5 Development of a CD-rom in collaboration with RISD (Rhode Island School of Design). Content: databases of employees, clients and objects from the dressmakers shop. Goal: use of the CD-rom together with a script in a pilot eigth-grade course. Subsequent design and development of a web solution containing 5 databases, part of a big website launched in the Spring 2001.

  • 1998-2002: participation in Web educational projects, such as: 1968, The Whole World Was Watching;6 Writing Vietnam;7 Humanitarianism and War8

  • 1999-2001: website design and development: Association for Computer and the Humanities Website;9 Xhub.10

  • 1999: Women Writers Project on-line catalogue.11 Development of on-line dynamically generated database solution to allow ordering of printouts.

1http://walton.rockcluster.brown.edu:1977/pico/

2 http://www.brown.edu/Departments/Italian_Studies/dweb/dec_ov/dec_ov.shtml

3http://sheridan-center.stg.brown.edu/

4http://www.stg.brown.edu/

5http://tirocchi.stg.brown.edu/

6http://www.stg.brown.edu/projects/1968/

7http://www.stg.brown.edu/projects/WritingVietnam/

8 http://www.stg.brown.edu/projects/hw/

9http://www.ach.org/

10http://www.stg.brown.edu/projects/Xhub/

11http://128.148.157.9:591/wwp/default.htm

Presentations:

"The Decameron Web. How does encoding help pedagogy?", Giovanna Roz, Elli Mylonas and Massimo Riva. Paper presented at the 2001 Joint International Conference of the Association for Computers and the Humanities and the Association for Literary and Linguistic Computing, New York, USA, June 2001.

"Humanities in the Digital Era: The Decameron Web", Giovanna Roz. Lecture given in Italian at Libera Università di Lingue e Comunicazione IULM, Milan, Italy, December 18, 2000.

"The SGML Encoding of Boccaccio's Decameron: A Project Inside the Decameron Web Project", Giovanna Roz and Elli Mylonas. Paper presented at Digital Resources for the Humanities 2000, University of Sheffield, England, September 2000.

"Caught in the Decameron Web: New Tools for Scholars and Teachers", Michael Hemment, Massimo Riva, Giovanna Roz and Michael Papio. Poster presented at the 2000 Joint International Conference of the Association for Computers and the Humanities and the Association for Literary and Linguistic Computing, Glasgow, Scotland, July 2000.

Publications:

Roz, Giovanna. "The SGML Encoding of Boccaccio's Decameron: a Project inside the Decameron Web Project." in Digital Evidence: selected papers from the Digital Resources for the Humanities 2000 conference, University of Sheffield, September 2000. London: Office for Humanities Communication (Fall 2001).

Association Memberships:

  • Text Encoding Initiative Consortium
  • Association for Computers and the Humanities (ACH)

Volunteer Work:
Blackstone Valley, Pawtucket, RI Spring 1998 -2001
Writers' Group: creative writing for mentally disabled. A teaching program offered by the Swearer Center, Brown University.

In Italy:
- Green Cross, Turin 1987 - 1998
paramedic ambulance service; ski patrol (since 1991); ambulance driver (since 1995).
- Teacher for junior high school students with behavioral problems 1994 - 1995
- B. Cottolengo Center: care of the disabled and hearing- and speech-impaired 1985 - 1990

Last updated: December, 12 2002

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