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Research interests

  • Arabic language and linguistics
  • North African Arabic varieties
  • Bedouin-type varieties
  • Popular literature (vernacular poetry) and culture in North Africa

Curriculum vitae

  • 1996-2002: Enrolled in the programme for Arabic at the Department of Oriental Studies, University of Vienna; courses on Cairene Arabic, Ancient South Arabic.
  • 2002: MA in Arabic Studies, University of Vienna (Austria)
  • 05/2004 - 02/2006: Collaborator in the project “Dialect, Culture, and Popular Religion in a Changing Bedouin Society: The Marazig Tribe of Southern Tunisia”; financed by the Austrian Research Fund (FWF) in Vienna (Austria)
  • 2005: PhD in Arabic Studies, University of Vienna (Austria)
  • 03/2006 - 07/2011: University Assistant in the Department of Oriental Studies, University of Vienna (Austria)
  • 2008-2009: Collaborator in the Amadeus (Vienna)-Picasso (Zaragoza)-Égide (Aix-en Provence) joint project: “Women’s World – Women’s Word: Female Life as Reflected in the Arabic Dialects”; financed by the Austrian Ministry for Science and Research.
  • 04/2010: Guest lecturer at the University of Cádiz (Spain) within the “Erasmus Lehrendenmobilität 2009/10”.
  • 10/2012 - 07/2013: Visiting professor for Semitic Studies at the Department of Languages and Cultures of the Near East at Heidelberg University (Germany)
  • since 08/2013: Tenure Track position in the Department of Oriental Studies, University of Vienna
  • since 2014: Collaborator in the digital dictionary of Tunis Variety within VICAV (Vienna Corpus of Arabic Varieties), a co-operation between the Department of Oriental Studies of the University of Vienna and the Austrian Centre for Digital Humanities (Austrian Academy of Sciences)
  • since 04/2019: FWF-project "Tunesiens linguistische Terra incognita"
  • since 01/2021: Associate Professor in the Department of Oriental Studies

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