Lorella Viola holds a PhD in Language and Communication Studies from the University of East Anglia – UEA (UK) and an MA in Translation and Cultural Mediation from the University of Udine (Italy). Within her PhD, she developed a data-driven, corpus-based method to investigate media-induced language change in Italian.
Lorella currently holds a position as Assistant Professor in Digital Humanities & Society at the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam. In the past, she worked at the University of Luxembourg’s C2DH to work with Sean Takats on the DHARPA Project. The team is building software to facilitate computational analysis, replicability, transparency, Open Access publication, standardization and research dissemination.