As a graduate of the École nationale des chartes (Paris) and the École de Bibliothéconomie et des Sciences de l’Information (EBSI) at the University of Montréal, Joana Casenave defended her Ph.D dissertation in 2016 (cotutelle with EBSI and the University Paris-Est Créteil), in Information Sciences and French Literature. Her dissertation, titled “La transposition numérique de l’édition critique : éléments pour une édition de l’IsopetI-Avionnet,” was completed under the supervision of Professor Jeanne-Marie Boivin at UPEC and Professor Yves Marcoux at EBSI. Her research focuses on the history and epistemology of digital scholarly editing, its impact on the Digital Humanities and on contemporary publishing practices.
In 2017-2018, she held a postdoctoral fellowship at the University of Montréal, with the Canada Research Chair on Digital Textualities, under the co-direction of Professors Marcello Vitali-Rosati and Michael E. Sinatra.