VALENTINA SERRELI

Insegnamento del primo semestre : LINGUA E TRADUZIONE ARABA II
Si ricorda che il corso prevede 6 ore di lezione settimanali, erogate dalla Prof.ssa Serreli (prima lezione lunedì 6 ottobre) e dalla Dott.ssa Mediouni (prima lezione giovedì 2 ottobre). 
Orari: 

• lunedì, ore 12-14   -  Prof.ssa Serreli 
• lunedì, ore 14-16   -  Dott.ssa Mediouni 
• giovedì, ore 12-14 -  Dott.ssa Mediouni

Materiale didattico
Si ricorda che i programmi e i testi d'esame sono disponibili sulla piattaforma Moodle alla pagina del rispettivo corso.
 

Appello della sessione straordinaria (novembre 2025)
1° appello: 3 novembre 2025 (studio docente, ore 09:00)

Appelli della sessione invernale (gennaio-febbraio 2026)
1° appello: 13 gennaio 2026, ore 10:00
2° appello: 10 febbraio 2026, ore 10:00

Valentina Serreli è ricercatrice RTT di lingua e letteratura araba presso il Dipartimento Istituto Italiano di Studi Orientali dell’ Università di Roma La Sapienza da aprile 2025. Precedentemente è stata professoressa di arabistica (Juniorprofessorin für Arabistik) presso l'Università di Bayreuth (2017-2025) e visiting professor all'Università Ca' Foscari di Venezia, dove ha tenuto un corso di sociolinguistica araba per tre anni consecutivi (2021, 2022 e 2023).

Ha conseguito il dottorato di ricerca in Linguistica e Arabistica in cotutela tra l'Università di Sassari e l'Università di Aix-Marseille, IREMAM con una tesi dal titolo "Society, languages and ideologies in the oasis of Siwa. Listening to people’s voices", per la quale ha ricevuto il Prix de thèse AMU 2016 dall'Università di Aix-Marseille.

La sua ricerca si inserisce nell’ambito della lingua e della linguistica araba, della sociolinguistica (ideologie linguistiche, rapporto tra lingua e identità), del multilinguismo e del contatto linguistico, con un particolare focus geografico sull’ arabo in Africa. Dal 2011 conduce regolarmente ricerche sul campo in Egitto (Oasi di Siwa).

È stata PI del progetto “Modernity, Migration and Minorities: Three Case Studies of Arabic in Contact” (2020-2023), finanziato dalla Fondazione tedesca per la ricerca (DFG).

È tra le organizzatrici/gli organizzatori di EISA - Winter School of Sociolinguistics in the Arabic-Speaking Context (https://www.eisa.page/eisa), un corso di formazione biennale rivolto a studentesse e studenti di laurea magistrale e dottorato, giunto alla sua seconda edizione:
- EISA 1 - Università di Meknes, Marocco, 19-23.02.2024, finanziamento dell'Università franco-tedesca UFA/DFH.
- EISA 2 - Università di Nouakchott, Mauritania, 5-9.01.2026, finanziamento dell'Università franco-tedesca UFA/DFH.

Organizzazione di convegni (selezione)
2021 (con K. Pfadenhauer e S. Rüdiger) Language Contact Through Time and Space’. Università di Bayreuth. https://sites.google.com/view/cotisp2020/cotisp.
2023 International Conference Arabic in Africa: Historical and Sociolinguistic Perspectives. Università di Bayreuth. https://www.arabistik.uni-bayreuth.de/de/Arabic-in-Africa-2023/index.html.
2025 (con Jonathan Owens) International Conference Arabic sociolinguistics and dialectology: Taking stock. Università di Bayreuth.

Partecipazione a convegni (selezione)
05.2024 A study of the PM ma in Cairene Arabic. 15th AIDA International Conference. University of Malta.
09.2024 Microvariation and language hierarchies. A sociolinguistic study in a multilingual setting. 21st International Congress of Linguists (ICL). Adam Mickiewicz University Poznan.
11.2024 Multilingual repertoires and language hierarchies in Siwa (Egypt). Arabic Sociolinguistics and Dialectology: Maġrib, Mašriq and surroundings. University of Bergamo.
01.2025 Pratiques évaluatives et gestion de l'asymétrie épistémique. Regards croisés sur l’évaluation – Formes, fonctions et stratégies en interaction. University of Bayreuth
06.2025 (con V. Schiattarella) Selling authenticity. The linguistic landscape of the hospitality sector in Siwa. International Symposium of Bilingualism (ISB15). Donostia San Sebastian
07.2025 Short-term accommodation in a multilingual and multidialectal context, and the way forward. International Conference Arabic sociolinguistics and dialectology: Taking stock. University of Bayreuth.

Pubblicazioni recenti
2024. Schiattarella, V. e Serreli, V. Multifunctional markers in a contact situation. Bass and ġayr in and between Arabic and Berber. Journal of Language Contact 17(4): 795-844. [10.1163/19552629-01704007]
2024. Serreli, V. Language, Society and Ideologies in Multilingual Egypt. Arabic and Berber in the Siwa Oasis. Berlino: De Gruyter Mouton. [10.1515/9783111045351]
2024. Pfadenhauer, K., Rüdiger, S. e Serreli, V. (eds) Global and Local Perspectives on Language Contact. Berlin: Language Science Press. [10.5281/zenodo.10438503]

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Valentina Serreli is an assistant professor of Arabic Studies at ISO Department (Dipartimento Istituto Italiano di Studi Orientali), Sapienza University of Rome since April 2025. Previously, she was assistant professor of Arabic Studies (Juniorprofessorin für Arabistik) at the University of Bayreuth (2017-2025). For three years (2021, 2022 and 2023) she has been a visiting professor at Ca’ Foscari University of Venice, where she taught a course in Arabic sociolinguistics.

She obtained a PhD in Linguistics and Arabic Studies in cotutelle between the University of Sassari and the University of Aix-Marseille, IREMAM with a dissertation titled Society, languages and ideologies in the oasis of Siwa. Listening to people’s voices. The work was awarded the Prix de thèse AMU 2016 by the University of Aix-Marseille (2017) and was shortlisted among the ten finalists of the Joshua Fishman Award in 2018.

Her research interests are: Arabic Language and Linguistics; Sociolinguistics, Language ideologies, Language and Identity; Multilingualism and Language contact; Arabic in Africa. She has conducted field research in Egypt (Siwa Oasis) since 2011.

She has been a PI in the project “Modernity, Migration and Minorities: Three Case Studies of Arabic in Contact” (2020-2023) funded by the German Research foundation (DFG).

She is among the organizers of EISA : Winter School of Sociolinguistics in the Arabic-Speaking Context (https://www.eisa.page/eisa), a biannual even who has reached its second edition:
- EISA 1 - University of Meknes, Morocco, 19-23.02.2024, funded by the Franco-German University UFA/DFH.
- EISA 2 - University of Nouakchott, Mauritania, 5-9.01.2026, funded by the Franco-German University UFA/DFH.

Workshops and conferences organized (selection)
2021 (with K. Pfadenhauer and S. Rüdiger) Language Contact Through Time and Space’. University of Bayreuth. https://sites.google.com/view/cotisp2020/cotisp.
2023 International Conference Arabic in Africa: Historical and Sociolinguistic Perspectives. University of Bayreuth. https://www.arabistik.uni-bayreuth.de/de/Arabic-in-Africa-2023/index.html.
2025 (with Jonathan Owens) International Conference Arabic sociolinguistics and dialectology: Taking stock. University of Bayreuth.

Talks (selection)
05.2024 A study of the PM ma in Cairene Arabic. 15th AIDA International Conference. University of Malta.
09.2024 Microvariation and language hierarchies. A sociolinguistic study in a multilingual setting. 21st International Congress of Linguists (ICL). Adam Mickiewicz University Poznan.
11.2024 Multilingual repertoires and language hierarchies in Siwa (Egypt). Arabic Sociolinguistics and Dialectology: Maġrib, Mašriq and surroundings. University of Bergamo.
01.2025 Pratiques évaluatives et gestion de l'asymétrie épistémique. Regards croisés sur l’évaluation – Formes, fonctions et stratégies en interaction. University of Bayreuth.
06.2025 (with V. Schiattarella) Selling authenticity. The linguistic landscape of the hospitality sector in Siwa. International Symposium of Bilingualism (ISB15). Donostia San Sebastian
07.2025 Short-term accommodation in a multilingual and multidialectal context, and the way forward. International Conference Arabic sociolinguistics and dialectology: Taking stock. University of Bayreuth.

Recent publications

2024. Schiattarella, V. and Serreli, V. Multifunctional markers in a contact situation. Bass and ġayr in and between Arabic and Berber. Journal of Language Contact 17(4): 795-844. [10.1163/19552629-01704007]
2024. Serreli, V. Language, Society and Ideologies in Multilingual Egypt. Arabic and Berber in the Siwa Oasis. Berlino: De Gruyter Mouton. [10.1515/9783111045351]
2024. Pfadenhauer, K., Rüdiger, S. e Serreli, V. (eds) Global and Local Perspectives on Language Contact. Berlin: Language Science Press. [10.5281/zenodo.10438503]