Descripción del proyecto
El origen de la redacción del «curriculum vitae» moderno
El proyecto NapApps, financiado con fondos europeos, rastrea el origen del «curriculum vitae», un resumen de la vida laboral de una persona, hasta la era napoleónica. La Francia napoleónica difundió por toda Europa el principio revolucionario según el cual todos los ciudadanos pueden acceder a un empleo público en función de sus capacidades y méritos. Por lo tanto, las personas empezaron a postularse para un trabajo en función de sus conocimientos y habilidades. El proyecto llevará a cabo un análisis estadístico de textos para estudiar un ingente corpus de solicitudes de empleo modernas a fin de dilucidar cómo las personas interiorizaron estos valores y comenzaron a presentarse y comportarse como profesionales.
Objetivo
Today, knowing how to write a curriculum vitae is essential to getting the job you want, proving your knowledge and skills. Even if these two elements are now at the core of the public debate on meritocracy, their growing importance is the result of a historical process, made of political, social and cultural changes. The NapApps project aims to trace the origin of this process, through a comparative analysis of more than 700 spontaneous job applications from the Napoleonic era. It was Napoleonic France that spread through Europe the revolutionary model according to which public employment would be open to all citizens, without any distinction other than that of one's virtues and talents. Despite a growing historiographical interest in writing-to-the-power sources, used by the New Napoleonic History to assess the impact of Napoleonic reforms in Europe, no scholar has ever tried to exploit their richness through a quantitative approach. NapApps will fill this gap, being a pioneering project which applies statistical text analysis to a vast corpus of modern sources to reveal how people interiorised new values, starting to portray themselves and behave like professionals. Once collected, job applications will be fully transcribed and unified in a digital collection made available to the public. The statistical data and text analysis of this corpus will be achieved thanks to the specific training carried out at the Center for Spatial and Textual Analysis (CESTA) at the University of Stanford. These new skills will be transferred at Ca’ Foscari University, where a master’s degree in Digital and Public Humanities has recently been created. Since I already have some digital skills, the new ones acquired through this project will complete my profile as a digital humanist, enhancing my career opportunities in Europe. Additionally, specific training on transferable skills, teaching activities and publications will contribute to my development as an independent researcher.
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MSCA-IF - Marie Skłodowska-Curie Individual Fellowships (IF)Coordinador
30123 Venezia
Italia