Ilenia LICITRA
Keywords
- Rhetorical devices and figurative language in pre-modern Arabic poetry;
- relationship between verbal and iconographic codes in Levantine comics;
- Arabic toponymy in Sicily
Ilenia Licitra is Assistant Professor of Arabic Language and Literature at the Department of Humanities of the University of Catania. Her current researches mainly concern the employment of rhetorical devices and figurative language in the Arabic poetry and the comics in the Levantine area. Among her most recent publications, the monograph on the Sicilian-Arab poet al-Ballanūbī, within the series Islamic Sicily: texts, literary and linguistic research (IPOCAN). She has participated in several research projects and numerous national and international conferences. She is affiliated with various research societies and she is currently member of the editorial board of scientific collections. Since 2011 he has been teaching Arabic language and literature at bachelor's and master's degree courses.
Ilenia Licitra is Assistant Professor of Arabic Language and Literature at the Department of Humanities of the University of Catania. Her current researches mainly concern the employment of rhetorical devices and figurative language in the Arabic poetry and the comics in the Levantine area. Among her most recent publications, the monograph on the Sicilian-Arab poet al-Ballanūbī, within the series Islamic Sicily: texts, literary and linguistic research (IPOCAN). She has participated in several research projects and numerous national and international conferences. She is affiliated with various research societies and she is currently member of the editorial board of scientific collections. Since 2011 he has been teaching Arabic language and literature at bachelor's and master's degree courses.
Last edit: 10/08/2024
Ilenia Licitra is a Senior Lecturer in Arabic Language and Literature at the Department of Humanities of the University of Catania. Her research primarily focuses on the study of rhetorical devices and figurative language in pre-modern Arabic poetry and Levantine comics.
Among her most recent publications are the monograph dedicated to the Diwan of the Arab poet of Sicily, al-Ballanūbī, published in the series Sicilia islamica: testi, ricerche letterarie e linguistiche (IPOCAN), and the articles “A Poetic Revival: Multimodal and Intertextual Strategies in the Contemporary Arab Pop Culture”, in La rivista di Arablit, XV, 30 (December 2025), pp. 17-40; “Poetry, Power and Propaganda at the Time of al-Mustanṣir (427/1036–487/1094)”, in Il mondo musulmano: religione, storia, letteratura. Studi in memoria di Biancamaria Scarcia Amoretti, edited by L. Bottini and C. Baldazzi, Pubblicazioni dell’Istituto per l’Oriente C. A. Nallino, Rome, 2024, pp. 111-126; “The Natural world in the Siculo-Arabic waṣf poetry”, Quaderni di Studi Arabi, New Series, thematic issue Natural world in Arabic textual culture (VII-XV centuries), F. Bellino (ed.), 18 (2023), pp. 62-81; “Senses and Sensuality: Synesthetic Imagery in the Siculo-Arabic Ghazal Poems”, Kervan, 27 (2023), pp. 225-242.