Manuel Portela is Professor in the Department of Literatures, Languages and Cultures at the University of Coimbra, Portugal, where he directs the PhD Programme in Materialities of Literature. He is the author of Scripting Reading Motions: The Codex and the Computer as Self-Reflexive Machines (MIT Press, 2013) and O Comércio da Literatura: Mercado e Representação [The Commerce of Literature; Marketplace and Representation] (Antígona, 2003). He is the general editor of LdoD Archive: Collaborative Digital Archive of the Book of Disquiet (https://ldod.uc.pt, 2017).
Dear reader, if you are a believer in the almighty virtues of the representational power of editions, if you are a true disciplinarian in textual matters, if you hold that knowledge validation in the digital humanities depends exclusively on quantitative criteria, Literary Simulation and the Digital Humanities is not for you. Or is it? * Joao Dionisio, Associate Professor, School of Arts and Humanities, University of Lisbon, Portugal *