Julia Pelosi-Thorpe is an Italian-Australian PhD student in Italian Studies/Comparative Literature and Literary Theory at the University of Pennsylvania, coming to the end of her first year.

Her research interests include reception/adaptation/translation studies; cultures of textual production from scribal to print to digital; and language pedagogy. She translates Latin, Italian, and Parmesan Dialect texts into English, and is a 2022–2023 Graduate Project Assistant with the Schoenberg Database of Manuscripts.

Her Digital Humanities training in Australia included the seminar “Digital Editing and the Medieval and Early Modern Manuscript” at the University of Sydney and a DH research assistant internship through the University of Melbourne's Digital Studio. Since beginning doctoral studies, she has sought learning opportunities such as the Newberry Library Center for Renaissance Studies’ “Digital Humanities and Premodern Studies” seminar, a digitisation-centered Comparative Literature & Literary Theory M.A. theory list, and the Price Lab's upcoming 2023 Dream Lab summer school.

She can be found at @jpelosithorpe and her website is jpelosithorpe.com.