Daniel Raffini is a research fellow at the Department of Computer, Automatic and Management Engineering at Sapienza University of Rome and a professor on contract at the Faculty of Humanities. He received his Ph.D. in Italian Studies with a dissertation on the reception of foreign literatures in Italian journals between the two wars. He published the monograph «Trovare nuove terre o affogare». Europeismi, letterature straniere e potere nelle riviste italiane tra le due guerre (Sapienza Università Editrice, 2021). He has been a visiting fellow at the Escritoras y Escrituras study group at the University of Seville with a project on the work of Lalla Romano. He has worked on reception, literary journals, reconstruction of international cultural networks through archival studies, relations between culture and power, and non-fiction. He has published contributions on Juan Rodolfo Wilcock, Lalla Romano, Vincenzo Consolo, Luciano Bianciardi, Pier Paolo Pasolini and Gianni Celati. He is currently working on the relationship between literature and artificial intelligence, both from a literary-historical perspective and regarding the theoretical and ethical issues that arise in relation to texts generated by artificial intelligence systems.

His contribution intends to investigate the role of the World Wide Web and Digital Humanities in production and dissemination of transcultural literary and artistic products. The World Wide Web will be taken over considered for its potential as a means of overcoming distances and creating contacts between different cultures; Digital Humanities will be investigated for their propensity to counter narrative and the decentralization of the gaze, which in recent years have become cornerstones of the discipline and of the projects connected to it.