Milena GIUFFRIDA
Milena Giuffrida is a Researcher (RTD-A) in Italian Literature Philology (LIFI-01/B) at the Department of Humanities of the University of Catania. In 2019, she obtained her PhD in Italian Studies at the University of Palermo, with a thesis dedicated to the Verga-Capuana correspondence, which was subsequently published in a critical and annotated edition as part of the National Edition of the Works of Giovanni Verga (Interlinea, 2024).
Her research activity falls within the field of author philology, textual criticism and Digital Humanities, with particular attention to digital scientific publishing, the study of correspondence, author libraries and the genetic processes of writing. Her main areas of interest include Giovanni Verga, Luigi Capuana, Carlo Emilio Gadda and Luigi Pirandello; she edited the critical edition of Pirandello's play "Non si sa come" for the National Edition of the writer's complete works.
She is a member of the team working on the digital edition of Luigi Pirandello's Opera Omnia (pirandellonazionale.it) and of the Centre for Humanities Computing (CINUM) at the University of Catania. Since 2025, she has been Principal Investigator of the FIS3 FANDEMIA project, dedicated to identifying fake news through a multimodal approach that integrates stylistics, sociolinguistics and artificial intelligence.
In terms of teaching, since 2023 she has been a lecturer in Authorial and Digital Philology, as well as teaching courses in contemporary Italian literature and editorial writing.
Principal Investigator of the FANDEMIA project. A multimodal approach for fake news detection: stylistics, sociolinguistics and AI, FIS 3 funding (from December 2025, ongoing).
Member of the research group for the PRIN2022-PNRR COVer-LeSS project: Online corpus of Literature, History and Society, PI Prof. Antonio Di Silvestro. Call for proposals 2022 PNRR. Line of intervention - South line/Linea Sud - Strategic emerging topic: HUMAN WELLBEING Cluster: Culture, Creativity and Inclusive Society (from March 2025, ongoing).
Member of the research group of CINUM - Centre for Humanities Informatics at the University of Catania, directed by Professor Antonio Di Silvestro (since 2018, ongoing).
Member of the research group of the Catania unit of the intra-departmental project Il Racconto in Italia (The Story in Italy), launched with a memorandum of understanding signed by the universities of Strasbourg, Trento, Milan, Modena-Reggio, Bologna, Naples “Federico II”, L'Aquila, Calabria and Catania. The Catania unit's project is entitled RAC.CONTAMI. Il racconto nella letteratura italiana: forme della contaminazione (The short story in Italian literature: forms of contamination), PI Prof. Andrea Manganaro (since October 2024, ongoing).
Member of the research group for the digital edition of Luigi Pirandello's works (https://www.pirandellonazionale.it/), as part of the National Edition of the Complete Works (dir. Prof. Antonio Sichera and Prof. Antonio Di Silvestro). As part of the collaboration, entrusted with the critical edition of the work “Non si sa come”, part of the volume Maschere nude X/1, edited by Marco Manotta (since January 2018, ongoing).
Principal collaborator of the Giacomo Leopardi's Idilli portal (http://leopardi.ecdosys.org/it/Home/), scientific director of the project Prof. Desmond Schmit. The portal hosts a digital critical edition of the Idilli created with an alternative coding system to XML-TEI.