Since 2025: Research coordinator of the Potsdam DH network

2021-2025: Joint PhD in comparative literature/digital humanities at the Universities of Potsdam and Padua

2022-2024: Scientific assistant at the chair for German literature of the 19th century (Prof. Dr. Peer Trilcke) within the EU Horizon 2020 project “CLS Infra. Computational Literary Studies Infrastructure ”(focus: Dracor project)

2017–2020: Master of Arts in comparative literature at the universities of Turin and Cologne

2014–2017: Bachelor of Arts in comparative literature at the universities of Turin and Warwick

• computational literary studies, with a focus on drama
• cultural analytics and cultural evolution
• literary network analysis

Current publications list

• Giovannini, Luca, and Giorgia Gallucci (2024). "Allacci Digitale: An Historical Dataset for Early Modern Italian Drama". Journal of Open Humanities Data 10, 1, p. 55.
• Giovannini, Luca, and Daniil Skorinkin (2024). "Computational approaches to opera libretti". Journal of Computational Literary Studies 3, 1, pp. 1-23
• Giovannini, Luca, and Daniil Skorinkin (2024). "Towards a LLM-powered encoding workflow for plays / Hacia un flujo de trabajo de codificación para obras de teatro impulsado por LLM". In: TEI2024 Book of Abstracts. Universidad del Salvador, 2024.
• Skorinkin, Daniil, Giovannini, Luca, Mischke, Dennis, Fischer, Frank, Milling, Carsten, and Peer Trilcke (2024). "Introducing AmDraCor: A Digital Resource for the Study of American Drama". In: DH2024 Book of Abstracts. George Mason University, 2024, pp. 214-216.
• Giovannini, Luca, and Daniil Skorinkin (2024). "Authorial Mimicry by Large Language Models: A First Assessment". In: DH2024 Book of Abstracts. George Mason University, 2024, pp. 212-213.
• Giovannini, Luca, and Giorgia Gallucci (2024). "Digitalizzazione e modellazione della Drammaturgia di Leone Allacci". In: AIUCD 2024 Book of Abstracts. Università di Catania, 2024, pp. 63-66.
• Giovannini, Luca (2024). "Quantitative Ansätze zur Untersuchung des frühneuzeitlichen Dramas". In: DHd2024 Book of Abstracts. Universität Passau, 2024.
• Giovannini, Luca, Skorinkin, Daniil, Trilcke, Peer, Börner, Ingo, Fischer, Frank, Dudar, Julia, Milling, Carsten, and Petr Pořízka (2023). "Distributed Corpus Building in Literary Studies: The DraCor Example". In: DH2023 Book of Abstracts. Universität Graz, 2023.
• Giovannini, Luca, Börner, Ingo, Fischer, Frank, Milling, Carsten, Skorinkin, Daniil, and Peer Trilcke (2023). "Quali prospettive per ItaDraCor? Risorse e strumenti per la codifica di testi drammatici in lingua italiana". In: AIUCD2023 Book of Abstracts. Università di Siena, 2023, pp. 108-111.
• Börner, Ingo, Fischer, Frank, Giovannini, Luca, Lu, Christopher, Milling, Carsten, Skorinkin, Daniil, Sluyter-Gäthje, Henny, and Peer Trilcke (2023). "Onboard onto DraCor: Prototyping Workflows to Homogenize Drama Corpora for an Open Infrastructure". In: DHd2023 Book of Abstracts. Universität Luxemburg & Universität Trier, 2023.
• Giovannini, Luca (2022). "Quantitative Perspectives on European Baroque Drama: Towards a Network Theory-oriented Analysis". In: DH2022 Book of Abstracts. University of Tokyo, 2022, pp. 639-641.