Chiara Fontana

Researcher and Assistant Professor of Arabic iterature at the University of Bologna, Chiara Fontana has a Ph.D. in Arabic Linguistics and Literature at the Sapienza University of Rome – Italian Institute of Oriental Studies (ISO) - 2018. Since 2014, she has taught and continues her research at institutions in Egypt, Jordan, Morocco, and Tunisia. In 2017, she received an Italian Ministry of Research scholarship to conduct a pilot study on Rhetorical/Poetic Forms in Southern Tunisian and Western Libyan Dialects. She is also an associate research board member in international research projects at the Columbia University (NY - US), University of Exeter and University of Birmingham. Her studies focus principally on Arabic rhetoric, prosody, and linguistics as applied to the study of cross-temporal literature and the Arabic literary canon. Go to the Curriculum vitae