Dr Elisabetta Magnanti is a Visiting Research Fellow in the School of English at Trinity College Dublin and a Post-Doctoral Research Fellow in the School of English and Digital Humanities at University College Cork.

She holds a PhD in History from the University of Vienna, an MSc in Computer Science for Electronic Text Processing, and an MA in Germanic Philology, having undertaken further training at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence for Big Data and Text Processing, and at the University of Oxford in Digital Humanities.

Her research specialises in the application of computational methods to palaeographical and philological analysis of Old English and Anglo-Latin source material.

Since 2022, in collaboration with Prof. Mark Faulkner (Trinity College Dublin), Elisabetta has been co-developing Ansund, a project harnessing Computer Vision and Machine Learning to create a new, exhaustive, open-access corpus of Old English, for which a Proof of Concept article, 'Corpus Palaeography: Machine Learning, Scribal Profiling and the Dating and Localisation of Manuscripts Containing Old English, c. 800–1200’, is forthcoming in Speculum (2027). 

Her ongoing collaborations include Measuring and Recording Manuscript Word Division Using Computer Vision, a Biblissima+ Exploratory project with Profs. Dominique Stutzmann (IRHT-CNRS) and Mark Faulkner, and Data Engineering for Old English: Partnering to Enhance the Dictionary of Old English for Its Compilers and Users (DEfOE), with Profs. Stephen Pelle (Dictionary of Old English / University of Toronto) and Mark Faulkner.

Another major strand of her research investigates the manuscript transmission, dissemination, and reception of Bede’s Historia Ecclesiastica Gentis Anglorum, with particular attention to the earliest witnesses of the work. She has recently identified a previously unknown early ninth-century manuscript of Cædmon’s Hymn forthcoming in Early Medieval England and its Neighbours (olim Anglo-Saxon England) and is currently preparing a major grant application to support further research in this area.

Prior to joining Trinity College Dublin in 2025, Dr Magnanti was affiliated with the University of Vienna (2021-25) and the Department for Science and Information Technology at the headquarters of the French National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS) in Paris (2019-21).