Marttila's
PhD, Postdoctoral Researcher
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My research interests are mainly located at the intersection of Digital Humanities, traditional philology and historical corpus linguistics. They include a variety of topics from the diachronic development and interrelations of recipes and other related practical genres of writing, to the editing of historical texts and editorial theory, to the creation of digital editions for the purposes of historical corpus linguistics, and to the pragmatically oriented study of historical texts, focusing especially on how their intended use and audience is reflected in their textual and paratextual features. On a more technical side, I am interested in developing annotation and presentation systems for the effective use of digital editions and linguistic corpora, and generally in using technology to do cool things in the context of historical linguistics and humanities research in general.
I finished my PhD thesis, a corpus-linguistically oriented TEI XML based digital edition of a family of six Late Medieval culinary recipe collections, in 2014. After my PhD, I have worked in the