Estelle Guéville

Estelle Guéville is a historian, literary scholar and digital humanist specializing in medieval manuscript cultures, gender stdudies, and computational approaches to textual artefacts. She holds a B.A. in History, a B.A. in Art History and an M.A. in History from Université Paris 1 Panthéon Sorbonne. Before joining Yale’s PhD program in Medieval Studies, she worked as a curator for several cultural institutions in France and the Gulf. She is currently pursuing her PhD at Yale University, is Associate Researcher at the Bibliothèque nationale de France, and Visiting Researcher at the LaMOP (Université Paris 1). She is the recipient of numerous grants and fellowships, including the Bourse Mark Pigott for Digital Humanities and the Mellon/ACLS Dissertation Innovation Fellowship.
Her research interests include the qualitative and quantitative study of manuscripts, as well as questions of authorship, attribution and copy. Her doctoral research recovers the lives of premodern female scribes and builds the first large-scale dataset of female scribal production in Christian Europe before 1600. It integrates codicology, paleography, and computational analysis to illuminate the scribal agency, literacy, intellectual, devotional, and liturgical contributions of premodern women. 
She is also the co-director of the Paris Bible Project and co-authored the book “Medieval Manuscripts and the Computational Humanities: Big Data, Scribes, and the “Paris Bible”” with Dr. David J. Wrisley in which they show how AI-driven and computational techniques can help better understand questions of authorship, textuality, and scribal attribution in premodern books. More broadly, her work advances data-driven approaches to medieval book cultures and the creation of open, interoperable resources for the study of premodern textuality.

Department: Medieval Studies