CHIARA FONTANA
Chiara Fontana is Ph.D. in Arabic Literature and Linguistics at the Sapienza University of Rome (February 2018). She currently serves as Assistant professor of Arabic Literature and Philology at the Alma Mater Studiorium University of Bologna, Italy. She was also a Post-Doc at the Ca' Foscari University of Venice, Visiting Fellow at OIB in Beirut. She also collaborated as PostResearch Associate with the Doha Institute for Graduate Studies (Doha, Qatar). Currently, she is member of the research boards for the ERC project "GlobaLit: Caucasus Literatures Compared" at the University of Birmingham, the Leverhulme Project "A Sorcerer’s Book" at the University of Exeter, and co-organizer of the international conference Arabic Literary Theory at Columbia University (2021-22)
Since 2014 she has held a number of teaching positions and continued her scholarly work at institutions in Tunisia, Egypt, Morocco, and Jordan. In 2017 she was awarded a scholarship from the Italian Ministry of Research (MIUR) in order to carry out a pilot study on the linguistic and cultural cohesion between southern Tunisia and Western Libya.
Her studies focus principally on Arabic rhetoric, prosody, and linguistics as applied to cross-temporal literature. She has done extensive research on literary experimentalism, inter-literary processes across Arabic, Persian and Turkish. She also pays specific to the interplay between language and cultural heritage, folklore, material culture, and urban development observed in the light of socio-political transformations emerging in the past and contemporary MENA societies. She also received training in the digital humanities and computational linguistics.
Phone: 3802088385
Since 2014 she has held a number of teaching positions and continued her scholarly work at institutions in Tunisia, Egypt, Morocco, and Jordan. In 2017 she was awarded a scholarship from the Italian Ministry of Research (MIUR) in order to carry out a pilot study on the linguistic and cultural cohesion between southern Tunisia and Western Libya.
Her studies focus principally on Arabic rhetoric, prosody, and linguistics as applied to cross-temporal literature. She has done extensive research on literary experimentalism, inter-literary processes across Arabic, Persian and Turkish. She also pays specific to the interplay between language and cultural heritage, folklore, material culture, and urban development observed in the light of socio-political transformations emerging in the past and contemporary MENA societies. She also received training in the digital humanities and computational linguistics.
Phone: 3802088385
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Literature”.
Keywords: Persian and Arabic Literatures, Rhetorical and Metrical Studies, Comparative Philology, Quatrains, Rubā‛iyyāt, World literature.
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Literature”.
Keywords: Persian and Arabic Literatures, Rhetorical and Metrical Studies, Comparative Philology, Quatrains, Rubā‛iyyāt, World literature.