Arianna Ciula graduated with BA (Hons) in Communication sciences (University of Siena, Italy) in 2001. She received an MA in Applied Computing in the Humanities from King's College London in 2004 and received a PhD in Manuscript and Book Studies from the University of Siena in 2005. She is currently Research Associate at Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London. She has worked in the XML team of the department for four years, her primary responsibility being the support of around 20 digital humanities research projects. Her work deals with document analysis, basic and advanced training on text encoding and development of digital resources. She also teaches a postgraduate course on 'Material Culture of the book: Digital Models' in the MA of Digital Humanities and has been lecturing within seminars, workshops, undergraduates and postgraduate programmes on humanities computing and primary sources at various Universities.
Besides ALLC, she is member of other international digital communities relevant to the humanities (she is elected member of the technical Council and of the Digital Medievalist executive board). She has been involved in the organisation of international conferences (DIGIMED, CLiP 2006, TEI Members Meeting 2008). Dr Ciula's research interests focus, in general, on the debate and creation of digital resources related to primary sources. Having worked on digitisation projects and having experience on image-processing, she is interested in the connection between image-based research and textual technologies.