University of Verona
My research path profits from a background in applied science and literary theory, with a PhD in Foreign Literatures and Literary Studies (University of Verona) and a BSc in Electronic Engineering (Polytechnic University of Torino). Currently, I work and teach at the University of Verona and I collaborate with the Digital Humanities Lab of the University of Basel.
I am a member of the International Society for the Empirical Study of Literature and Media (IGEL) and of the “Distant Reading for European Literary History” COST Action. From 2011, I published 2 monographs and 29 articles.
My main research interests are theory and methods of literary historiography and digital humanities (with a focus on stylometry and sentiment analysis). In the field of empirical literary studies, I work in a series of projects focused on reading absorption and online reading communities.
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Rebora, S. (2020). Shared Emotions in Reading Pirandello. An Experiment with Sentiment Analysis. In C. Marras, M. Passarotti, G. Franzini, & E. Litta (Eds.), Atti del IX Convegno Annuale AIUCD. La svolta inevitabile: Sfide e prospettive per l’Informatica Umanistica (pp. 216–221). Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore. https://doi.org/10.6092/unibo/amsacta/6316
Pianzola, F., Rebora, S., & Lauer, G. (2020). Wattpad as a resource for literary studies. Quantitative and qualitative examples of the importance of digital social reading and readers’ comments in the margins. PLoS ONE, 15(1). https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0226708
Rebora, S., Boot, P., Pianzola, F., Gasser, B., Herrmann, J. B., Kraxenberger, M., Kuijpers, M., Lauer, G., Lendvai, P., Messerli, T. C., & Sorrentino, P. (2019). Digital Humanities and Digital Social Reading. OSF Preprint. https://doi.org/10.31219/osf.io/mf4nj
Rebora, S., Lendvai, P., & Kuijpers, M. (2018). Reader experience labeling automatized: Text similarity classification of user-generated book reviews. EADH2018 Book of Abstracts. National University of Ireland, Galway. https://eadh2018.exordo.com/programme/presentation/90
Salgaro, M., & Rebora, S.(2018). Measuring the “Critical Distance”. A Corpus -Based Analysis of Italian Book Reviews. In D. Spampinato (Ed.), AIUCD2018—Book of Abstracts (pp. 161–163). University of Bari. https://doi.org/10.6092/unibo/amsacta/5997