In literature, paratextual elements traditionally act as thresholds between the text itself and what is beyond the text. They underline the passage from an extradiegetic level to a diegetic level and, ultimately, in the case of literature, from reality to fiction. Although this model has been articulated to apply to paper publishing, the digital sphere has demonstrated a tendency to increasingly blur the boundaries between the two levels. On the web, everything is text, or rather, more specifically, a small amount of text and an enormous ensemble of paratexts. It is indeed the paratexts that usually play an operational role: paratexts are the devices that allow us to act (change of address, page, liking content, etc.). In other words, the paratexts become the interface, a place of action, a world, or, even better, the world where we act. The paratexts then become an environment; our environment.
June 26-28, 2023 The Chair's team is glad to present multiple papers at Humanistica's, the French association for digital humanities, annual conference.
June 16, 2023 Emmanuelle Lescouet gives a talk titled "Les humanités numériques pour documenter les corpus de l'imaginaire" (Digital Humanities For Documenting Speculative Fiction Corpora) at the "Sciences de l'Imaginaire" (Speculative Science) colloquium hosted by the research group "Identité culturelle, Textes, Théâtralité" (Cultural Identity, Texts, Theatricality) of Avignon Université. Program to come!
May 29-June 1, 2023 The Chair's team is glad to be presenting multiple papers and panels at the Canadian Society for Digital Huamanities' annual congress.
May 8-10, 2023 Marcello Vitali-Rosati gives a talk and releases the collective work “Les éditions critiques numériques : entre tradition et changement de paradigmes“ he has co-edited with Robert Alessi at the 2023 Acfas Congress; Emmanuelle Lescouet gives a talk and hosts a workshop on digital literature and video game narration. Full program on the Acfas website.
March 28, 2023 Italian conference held by Marcello Vitali-Rosati and Mathilde Verstraete at the Department of Humanities at the University of Naples - Federico II on March 28, 2023 at 10 a.m. (EST) on Jitsi
March 26, 2023 The Chair's team is invited to take part in a day-long Wikithon organised by Productions Rhizome in partnership with Littérature québécoise mobile, of which Marcello Vitali-Rosati is a collaborator.
March 23, 2023 Mathilde Verstraete cohosts, with the Center for Classical Studies of the University of Montreal, on March 23, 2023 from 9 a.m. (EST) in the Jean-Brillant Building of the University, a public reading of Virgil's Aeneid as part of the Festival Européen Latin Grec.
