Cosette Bruhns Alonso
Assistant Editor, Brown University Digital Publications
Cosette Bruhns Alonso is Assistant Editor, Brown University Digital Publications. She supports humanities scholars in the creation, evaluation, and development of born-digital scholarship intended for publication with academic presses. Prior to Brown, she was an assistant editor for Book and Style Publications at the Modern Language Association. She was the inaugural Contemporary Publishing Fellow at University of Pennsylvania Press and Penn Libraries in 2022–2024, where she brought together editorial and digital resources to support the creation of open access and multimodal digital publications. She holds a Ph.D. in Italian Studies from the University of Chicago with a research focus on late medieval literature and visual culture.
Bruhns Alonso was the inaugural Diversity in Digital Publishing Postdoctoral Research Associate of Brown University Digital Publications and the Department of Italian Studies in 2021–2022, and is the author of several article publications and translations. She returns to Brown with broad experience in scholarly publishing, digital humanities, teaching, and project management. Beyond the Brown campus, she is the managing editor of Dante Studies, the annual journal of the Dante Society of America, and serves on the Library Publishing Coalition Professional Development Committee (2025–2027) and the AU Presses Open Access Committee (2025–2028).
Contact: cosette_bruhns@brown.edu
