I joined the Open University in 2012 as Research Associate in Digital Humanities. Previously, I worked for University College Dublin and the National University of Ireland, Galway. My role within the Open University is to develop research in Digital Humanities and promote collaboration and networking.
While in UCD, I taught courses on digital humanities and collaborated with the Irish Virtual Research Library and Archive (IVRLA) on integrating digital resources and teaching. In NUI Galway, I worked with the Thomas Moore Archive, a project of the Moore Institute, NUI Galway, of which I am joint editor. For the TMA I developed a digital edition of a selection of Thomas Moore’s prose writings, and designed the web interface of the project.
My research interests are digital humanities (especially digital scholarly editions and text encoding), the writings of Thomas Moore (1779-1852), and nineteenth-century periodicals, with a focus on the role of Irish periodicals and newspapers in Irish cultural nationalism.
Contact: francesca.benatti@open.ac.uk
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Francesca Benatti, Sean Ryder, and Justin Tonra (eds) Thomas Moore: Texts Contexts Hypertext. Peter Lang. Forthcoming 2012.
“Joining the Press-gang: Thomas Moore and the Edinburgh Review.” Francesca Benatti, Sean Ryder and Justin Tonra (eds.). Thomas Moore: Texts Contexts Hypertext. Peter Lang. Forthcoming 2012.
Francesca Benatti, Sean Ryder, and Justin Tonra (eds.) Thomas Moore Archive. Test version available at http:// www.thomasmoore.ie/. To be launched Autumn 2012.
“Postgraduate Education.” Research and Resources in a Digital Age: UCD Virtual Research Library and Archive 1 (2010). http://ivrla.ucd.ie/ivrla/ejournal
“Irish Patriots and Scottish Adventurers: the Irish Penny Journal, 1840-1.” Canadian Journal of Irish Studies 35, 2 (Fall 2009): 36-41.
Dictionary of Nineteenth-Century Journalism. Brake, Laurel and Marysa Demoor (eds.) London and Ghent: British Library and Academia Press, 2009. Twenty entries on Irish journals and authors, including Isaac Butt, William Carleton, Charles Gavan Duffy, Thomas D’Arcy McGee, John Mitchel and the Dublin Penny Journal
“Land and Landscape in the Dublin Penny Journal, 1832-3.” Hooper, Glenn and Una Ní Bhroiméil (eds.) Land and Landscape in Nineteenth-Century Ireland. Dublin: Four Court, 2008
See also Open Research Online for futher details of Francesca Benatti's research publications.
“Digital Research with the UCD Irish Virtual Research Library and Archive”. Innovation Dublin Festival. University College Dublin, November 2010.
“Literary Mediascapes: The UCD IVRLA and Irish Literature”. Innovation Dublin Festival. University College Dublin, November 2010.
“Digital Human(ist)s in the Making: A Forum on Digital Humanities in Irish Postgraduate Education.” Digital Resources in the Humanities and Arts. Queen’s University Belfast, September 2009.