Web page: https://www.history.ox.ac.uk/people/dr-emanuela-vai
Post: Head of Research and Senior Fellow, Faculty of History, Worcester College; Hill Collection, Ashmolean Museum - Bate Collection, Faculty of Music.
Digital Humanities Interests:
- PI of 'Fantastic, Monstrous and Marvellous Musical Instruments of the Global Renaissance' [funded by EU Commission]
- PI of 'Renaissance Musical Instruments (Digital Humanities and Heritage)' at the Ashmolean Museum [funded by the John Fell Fund, University of Oxford]
- PI of 'Monstruous and Marvellous Musical Instruments: Digital Humanities and Renaissance Music Heritage' [funded by H2020 EU MSCA]
- PI of 'Dis-playing Musical Instruments. Cultures of Collecting and Practices of Performing' [funded by The British Academy/Leverhulme Trust]
- Academic Lead of 'Digital Humanities and Sensory Heritage: Space, Objects and the Senses' Network [funded by TORCH, Humanites Division, University of Oxford]
- Co-PI of 'ATRIUM- Transcription of all of Vitruvius's manuscripts' [funded by ERC-2022-ADG]
- 'Monstrous Materialities: Representations of the Grotesque on Scrolls and Headstocks of Italian Renaissance Stringed Instruments (14th-17th c.)' [funded by Hanna Kiel Trust, Harvard University]
- Academic Lead of 'Space and Sound: Architecture for Music', a regional strand of of 'Architectura e Identità Locali: Dalla Letteratura Architettonica agli Scritti Letterari, Dalla Costituzione di una Tradizione alla Conservazione' [funded by PRIN 2010-2012]
- PI of 'Digital Humanities and Music Heritage: Space, Musical Instruments and the Senses' [funded by the Newton Trust, University of Cambridge]
