MARIA VITTORIA NENNA

PhD Student

PhD program:: XL
email: mariavittoria.nenna@uniroma1.it





Research: Sounding Trajectories. The Debordering Efforts of Buddhist Nuns in Sound, Body and Fight.

PhD Candidate for the Anthropology Curriculum of the PhD in History, Anthropology and Religions of Sapienza University of Rome, XL Cycle.


AREAS OF RESEARCH:

Linguistic and Sonic Anthropology, Sonic Materiality, Debordering Processes, Female Monastic Communities


EDUCATION:

2024, Master's degree with Honors in Anthropological and Ethnological Sciences at the University of Milano Bicocca, with a thesis titled "Debordering Across Sound and Meaning. Embodiment, Agency and Living Voices in Buddhist Pali Chants" under the supervision of Professors Alessandra Brivio and Federica Da Milano. The thesis was written after a three-moths fieldwork in Thailand at the Dhammakaya's International Forest Monastery in the Chiang Mai Province.

2021, Bachelor's degree in economics and social sciences at the Free University of Bozen Bolzano, with a thesis titled "The Internet and a New Social Contract: between Hobbes and David Foster Wallace" under the supervision of Professor Roberto Farneti.

2024 Summer School of Glottology and Linguistics, Italian Glottology Society (SIG) and University of Udine
2022 Summer School of Glottology and Linguistics, Italian Glottology Society (SIG) and University of Udine
2021 Spring School of Morphology, Free University of Bozen Bolzano, Faculty of Education


LANGUAGE AND DIGITAL SKILLS:

Italian, mother tongue
English, IELTS Certificate Band 8 (C1)
German, GOETHE Certificate B2
Sanskrit, base knowledge

Microsoft Access (Database and Dataset)
R (Statistical Computation)
Praat (Phonetic Analysis)
Atlas.ti (Qualitative Analysis)

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