Valentina Bella Lanza

She holds the PhD in Islamic Civilisation, History and Philology from Sapienza University of Rome, Italian Institute of Oriental Studies (ISO) with a thesis on a digital edition and analysis of a medieval Judeo-Arabic manuscript. Her main field of research is Arabic language and linguistics, with a specific interest on the material tradition of the text. In addition to a theoretical approach, she draws on Digital Humanity methods mainly devoted to the production of digital editions. She is currently a member of the Sapienza funded projects: The Oriental School of Rome: History, Figures, Cultural Scene, Manuscript and Book Collections and JADI: Judeo-Arabic goes Digital. An Open-Access Digital Edition of a 15th-century Song of Songs, for which she is the PI. She is currently an Ajunct Professor of Arabic Philology 1 at the Department of Modern Languages, Literatures, and Cultures at the University of Bologna, and Research Fellow at the Department of Asian, African and Mediterranean Studies of the University of Naples "L'Orientale".