SOFIA DI RUSSO

PhD Student

PhD program:: XL
email: sofia.dirusso@uniroma1.it




supervisor: Prof.ssa Antonella Ghersetti (Università Ca' Foscari di Venezia)

Research: Texts and contexts of ʾiqtibās

Curriculum Vitae:
11/2024 - current: PhD student in Asian and African Civilisations at the Italian Institute of Oriental Studies (ISO), Sapienza University of Rome
Title of research project: Texts and contexts of ʾiqtibās
Supervisor:

03/08/2023 - 31/01/2024: Erasmus Traineeship extracurricular project: introduction to research at the foreign institution "Escuela de Estudios Árabes" CSIC (Granada)

23/10/2023 - 27/10/2023: Intensive Course "Arabic Codicology. The Islamic Manuscript heritage in the El Escorial Collection" in San Lorenzo de El Escorial library, under the direction of François Déroche and Nuria de Castilla (Madrid)

31/01/2020 - 24/07/2023: Master's Degree in ‘ Comparative Literature and Cultures’, University of Naples "L'Orientale".
Arabic-Spanish Language Curriculum
Title of thesis: "Laughing with Islām, laughing at Islām. Humour in the religious literature of the Islamic Middle Ages."

09/2016 - 23/01/2020: Bachelor's Degree in ‘Comparative Languages and Cultures’, University of Naples "L'Orientale"
Arabic-Spanish Language Curriculum
Title of thesis: ‘Risks and delights of love: the Risālat al-qiyān of al-Ǧāḥiẓ.’

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