Emmanuela Carbé is a tenure-track researcher in Contemporary Italian Literature at the University of Siena.
She completed her studies in Modern Philology at the University of Pavia, where she also served as teaching assistant in Modern and Contemporary Italian Literature. From 2013 to 2017, she was a research fellow for the Pavia Archivi Digitali project. From 2018 to 2024, she held various research positions, including postdoctoral researcher and fellow, at the University of Siena, contributing to the development of Digital Humanities projects. In 2020, she was awarded the Giuseppe Gigliozzi Prize for her work on the Eurasian Latin Archive (ELA). In 2023, she organized the AIUCD annual conference in Siena.
She has taught at the Università per gli Stranieri of Siena and the "G. d'Annunzio" University of Chieti-Pescara. In the 2022/23 academic year, she was a Visiting Scholar at the Venice Centre for Digital and Public Humanities, and in 2023/24, she served as Visiting Professor at Seoul National University. For the 2024/25 academic year, she is adjunct professor for the Modelling and Visualizing Textual Data course in the Master's program in Digital and Public Humanities at Ca' Foscari University of Venice.
She is the principal investigator of the BiGraFo project, which focuses on creating a semantic catalog of Franco Fortini's bibliography, and is actively involved in recovering born-digital materials preserved at the Franco Fortini Research Center. On the subject of born-digital literary archives, she published the monograph Digitale d’autore. Macchine, archivi, letterature (Siena-Firenze University Press, 2023).
Since 2022, she has been curating for nottetempo the re-edition of Fausta Cialente's works Un inverno freddissimo, Il vento sulla sabbia, Ballata levantina, and Interno con figure. Her doctoral thesis was an annotated edition of Cialente's unpublished war diary, which earned her the Gemma Biroli Prize in 2015, and she published a monograph on the topic titled La scrittura necessaria (Artemide, 2021).
From 2020 to 2024, she collaborated with the communication delegate of DFCLAM, and since January 2023, she has been a member of the task force of the University of Siena's communication delegate. In December 2023, she was appointed departmental representative of DFCLAM for the University’s Communication Focus Group. From 2015 to 2024, she served as professor and coordinator of the Digital Libraries module for the Master's in Digital Humanities at the University of Siena ("Infotext").
For the 2024-26 term, she is a board member of the Italian Association for Digital Humanities (AIUCD). Since September 2024, she has been the director of the ALDiNa project of AIUCD & Clarin-IT. She is also a member of the Scientific Board of the Centro Manoscritti at the University of Pavia.
She is a writer of novels and short stories: her works include Mio salmone domestico (Laterza, 2013) and L'unico viaggio che ho fatto (minimum fax, 2017), as well as contributions to several collective volumes. Her latest short story, Controspazio, is featured in Templi per lombardi laboriosi (Humboldt, 2024). She has participated in numerous literary juries, including the selection jury of the Campiello Giovani Prize (2003-2020) and the Settembrini Prize jury (2014-2020).