Manuela Elisa Bibiana Giolfo

CURRENT POSITION

Full Professor of Arabic Language and Literature. Arabic Teaching Coordinator. Former Coordinator of the Degree Programme in Interpreting and Communication and Deputy Director of the Department of Humanities. Internationalization Coordinator for the Faculty of Interpreting and Translation and the Department of Humanities. Master's degree in Philosophy under Giulio Giorello, University of Milan; PhD in Arabic Linguistics under Pierre Larcher, Aix-Marseille Université (FR). Lecturer in Arabic (Teaching and Research), Institute of Arab and Islamic Studies, University of Exeter (UK), 2008-2013. Chercheuse associée, Institut de recherches et d’études sur le monde arabe et musulman (IREMAM), Aix-Marseille Université (FR), 2014-2020. Member of the European Network for Teaching Arabic, Leiden University (NL). Member of ANVUR's disciplinary Evaluation Expert Panel (GEV), Area 10 - Antiquities, Philological-Literary and Historical-Artistic Sciences - for the 2015-2019 Research Quality Evaluation (VQR). Evaluator (referee) for the European Research Council (ERC). Member of the Scientific Board of the book series Traduzioni, studi e ricerche sulla nahḍah, edited by Isabella Camera d’Afflitto, Istituto per l’Oriente Carlo Alfonso Nallino, Rome (MIUR project ‘Studies and Research on the Cultures of Asia and Africa: Tradition and Continuity, Revitalization and Dissemination’), and of the scientific boards of the journals Testo a fronte, new series of the journal of literary translation theory and practice, directed by Giovanni Puglisi; La rivista di Arablit, biannual journal of modern and contemporary Arabic literature and culture, Istituto per l’Oriente Carlo Alfonso Nallino, Rome, under the patronage of the Italian Institute of Oriental Studies, Sapienza University of Rome; Majallat al-ādāb wa-l-lughāt wa-l-ʿulūm al-ʾinsāniyya, Université Chadli Bendjedid (DZ); International Journal of Arabic Linguistics (IJAL).

RESEARCH PROFILE

IULM Research Unit Coordinator for the three-year PRIN 2020 project A lexical corpus-based model of Contemporary Written Arabic.

IULM Research Unit Coordinator for the two-year PRIN 2022 project A FinTech Regulatory Information Retrieval Model for an Islamic Finance Compliant Rule System Built from Spontaneous Arabic Texts.

International edited volumes: Giolfo, M. (ed.) (2014), Arab and Arabic Linguistics: Traditional and New Theoretical Approaches (Journal of Semitic Studies, 34), Oxford: Oxford University Press; Sartori, M., Giolfo, M., & Cassuto, Ph. (eds.) (2016), Approaches to the History and Dialectology of Arabic in Honor of Pierre Larcher (Studies in Semitic Languages and Linguistics, 88), Leiden/Boston: Brill; Giolfo, M., & Versteegh, K. (eds.) (2019), The Foundations of Arabic Linguistics IV. The Evolution of Theory (Studies in Semitic Languages and Linguistics, 97), Leiden/Boston: Brill; Wahba, K., Taha, Z., & Giolfo, M. (eds.) (2023), Teaching and Learning Arabic Grammar: Theory, Practice, and Research, London/New York: Routledge; Giolfo, M., Lancioni, G., & Villano, R. (eds.) (2027), The Foundations of Arabic Linguistics VI (Studies in Semitic Languages and Linguistics), Leiden/Boston: Brill; Wahba, K., Giolfo, M., Wilmsen, D., & Lancioni, G. (eds.) (2027), Teaching Arabic Writing to Second and Foreign Language Learners: Bridging Theory, Research, and Practice, London/New York: Routledge.

DISCIPLINARY GROUP:

L-OR/12 Arabic language and literature

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