Ines Peta

Ines Peta graduated in Foreign Languages and Literatures (Philological-Literary Curriculum) from the University of Naples "L'Orientale" in 2005. She obtained her PhD through a joint doctoral programme between the University of Salerno and Saint Joseph University of Beirut in 2010. From 2011 to 2019, she served as a contract lecturer at the Catholic University of Milan. From 2019 to 2022, she was a fixed-term researcher (RTD-B) in Arabic Language and Literature at the University of Bologna, where she has been Associate Professor since 2022. She participated in several research projects promoted by the International Oasis Foundation (2014, 2015, 2017) and served as Principal Investigator of the University of Bologna research unit within the PRIN 2022 project Environmental Anomalies & Political Legitimacy in Global Eurasia (12th–14th Centuries). Her research combines Arabic literary studies, Islamic studies, intellectual history, and postcolonial approaches, focusing on the contemporary reactivation of classical heritage (turāth), cultural mediation, and the circulation of ideas between Europe and the Arab-Islamic world.