Carol Chiodo, Postdoctoral Associate

Carol Chiodo is a writer, scholar, and educator whose work investigates how the material and structural changes in the reproduction, storage and transmission of texts impact the ways we read, write and learn. She received a Ph.D. degree in Italian Language and Literature with a dissertation on medieval vernacular poetry and the mechanical arts.

Her current research uses social network analysis to explore the membership rolls of early scholarly societies in North America as a source for women's history. The project re-situates the female membership of the first decades of the Dante Society of America, one of the oldest in North America, in relation to contemporary social and institutional networks associated with racial egalitarianism, religious and educational reform, and universal suffrage. While her primary interest is in how these women influenced the reception and dissemination of Dante's work in North America, their activity also sheds light on the broader context of higher education and religious reform.   

At Yale, she has helped coordinate the Digital Humanities Working Group, an interdisciplinary working group at the Whitney Humanities Center devoted to Yale’s growing digital humanities community. Her other interests include the development of digital tools for teaching and research in the humanities, data analysis and visualization, and the curation and deployment of linked open data in special collections.