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Manuela Elisa Bibiana Giolfo

Associate professor
Manuela Elisa Bibiana Giolfo

Department of Humanities
Faculty of Interpreting and translation
Manuela Elisa Bibiana Giolfo

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Individual tutorials will be held via Skype or through Microsoft Teams by appointment to be arranged in advance by e-mail.

CURRENT POSITION:

Associate Professor of Arabic language and literature at IULM University - International University of Languages and Media (Milan), she teaches Arabic literature (BA) and Editorial translation (MA), and is Arabic Teaching coordinator.

She holds a Ph.D. in Arabic linguistics from Aix-Marseille University, and is Chercheuse associée in Arabic linguistics and sociolinguistics at the Institut de recherches et d’études sur le monde arabe et musulman (IREMAM) - CNRS - Aix-Marseille Université.

RESEARCH LINES:

Her current research focuses on the Arabic linguistic tradition; linguistics and logic in medieval Islam; early and modern Arabic poetry; Arabic sociolinguistics; Arabic representations and linguistic policies; contemporary Arabic variation; variation-driven models for proficiency enhancement in Teaching Arabic as a Foreign Language.

She was the editor of the volume “Arab and Arabic Linguistics: Traditional and New Theoretical Approaches” (Journal of Semitic Studies, 34, 2014). With Manuel Sartori and Philippe Cassuto, she edited the volume “Approaches to the History and Dialectology of Arabic in Honor of Pierre Larcher” (Brill, Studies in Semitic Languages and Linguistics 88, 2016). With Kees Versteegh, she edited the volume “Foundations of Arabic Linguistics IV. The Evolution of Theory” (Brill, Studies in Semitic Languages and Linguistics 97, 2019). She is the author of the book “Les systèmes hypothétiques de l’arabe classique. Étude syntaxique et sémantique: une hypothèse modale” (Foreword by Giuliano Lancioni, Aracne Editrice, 2017) and, with Federico Salvaggio, of the book “Mastering Arabic Variation. A Common European Framework of Reference Integrated Model” (Foreword by Kassem M. Wahba, Aracne Editrice, 2018). With Kassem M. Wahba and Zeinab A. Taha, she is currently editing the volume “ Teaching and Learning Arabic Grammar: Theory, Practice and Research” (Routledge).

DISCIPLINARY GROUP:

L-OR/12 Arabic language and literature

 

 

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