Federico Pianzola

Federico Pianzola, PhD, is an Assistant Professor of Computational Humanities at the University of Groningen. His research examines how people read and write fiction online, combining computational, qualitative, and quantitative methods. He is the principal investigator of the ERC Starting Grant project GOLEM (Graphs and Ontologies for Literary Evolution Models), a member of the scientific advisory board of OPERAS, and vice president of the International Society for the Empirical Study of Literature.

Pianzola is the author of Digital Social Reading: Sharing Fiction in the Twenty-First Century, published by MIT Press, as well as Le “trappole morali” di Primo Levi: Miti e fiction. His work has also appeared in publications on Wattpad, digital humanities, narrative theory, and online fan fiction.