Cosette Bruhns Alonso is Contemporary Publishing Fellow at the Center for Research Data and Digital Scholarship. In this role, she spearheads a pilot collaboration with University of Pennsylvania Press to design and develop born-digital publications through innovative uses of digital tools, data, and interactive media-rich enhancements. She also joins the Price Lab for Digital Humanities as a 2022-2023 Mellon Seminar Fellow where she will be developing a digital project entitled, Technologies of Representation: the Decameron in Medieval to Modern Media. She is currently appointed to the Library Publishing Coalition’s Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Committee during 2022-2024.

Cosette has most recently held the position of Diversity in Digital Publishing & Italian Studies Postdoctoral Research Associate at Brown University, where she facilitated the NEH Institute on Advanced Topics in the Digital Humanities, Born-Digital Scholarly Publishing: Resources and Roadmaps, supported the editorial and digital development of faculty publications, and curated an exhibition at the Rockefeller Library on Giovanni Boccaccio’s Decameron and Covid-era viral art.

Cosette holds a PhD and MA in Italian Studies from the University of Chicago, and a BA in Philosophy from the New School. Her primary area of research and teaching is in 13th-16th century Italian art and literature, with a focus on visual culture, the representation of race and gender, and intersections between literature, media, and technology. Current projects include a born-digital publication and translation of Benedetto Varchi’s Due Lezioni and a print monograph on visual representation in medieval Italian literature.