Del Unito’s early training was steeped in the canonical study of Dante, Petrarch and Boccaccio, as evidenced by her undergraduate thesis on *the narrative function of the “voice” in the Divine Comedy . However, her master’s research already signaled a shift: she examined the influence of early internet forums on the stylistic experimentation of 1990s Italian writers such as Aldo Nove and Valerio Evangelisti. This pivot set the stage for her doctoral work, which interrogates how “post‑digital” conditions—characterized by hyper‑connectivity, algorithmic mediation, and the proliferation of fragmented textual forms— reshape the architecture of contemporary Italian narrative.
In partnership with the European Digital Humanities Lab, Veronica launched “Storie di Strada” (2020), a crowdsourced digital archive of oral histories from migrant workers in Milan’s outskirts. The project combines audio recordings, transcriptions, and artistic renderings, making the material freely accessible for scholars and educators. By foregrounding voices often excluded from official narratives, the archive has become a primary source for research on contemporary migration patterns in the Po Valley. veronica del unito