Elisabetta Benigni

is Assistant Professor of Arabic language and literature at the University of Turin. After having obtained her PhD from the University Sapienza (Rome) in 2009, Elisabetta Benigni was postdoctoral fellow at the research programme Zukunftsphilologie at Freie Universitat in Berlin (2011-2012) and an Herzog-Ernst Thyssen Foundation postdoctoral fellow at the Gotha research library (2012). Her research interests are comparative literature in the Mediterranean context (particularly focusing on the transmission of texts in the early modern Mediterranean world) and exchanges and relations between Italian and Arab intellectual worlds. She has also worked on prison literature in Arabic (Il carcere come spazio letterario, Nuova Cultura, 2009), the Arabic translations of Dante's Commedia ("La Divina Commedia nel mondo arabo: studi, orientamenti critici e traduzioni", Critica del testo , 2011) and the image of Jerusalem in Medieval and modern Arabic literature ("Il realismo immaginario di Gerusalemme" in E. Benigni, M. Marconi, D. Salemi, Quattro studi su Gerusalemme, Nuova Cultura, 2012).