Alessandro Vatri is a Research Assistant in Comparative Philology at the University of Oxford and Junior Research Fellow at Wolfson College. He completed a DPhil in Classical Languages and Literature at Oxford in 2013, having received his MA in Classics from Sapienza University of Rome. His research focuses on Ancient Greek linguistics, rhetoric, oratory, and cultural history, and he has published several articles in these fields as well as co-convened the international conferences 'The Language of Persuasion' (UCL, 2014) and 'Language in Style' (Oxford, 2016) and the seminar series 'Systems of Style' (Oxford and UCL, 2015). As well as his teaching and research in these areas, he is also actively interested in the development of tools and methods for the study of language through digital text corpora.