Rosa PENNISI
Graduated in European and Extra-European Languages and Cultures (2014) from the Struttura Didattica Speciale di Lingue e Letterature Straniere in Ragusa, University of Catania, with a thesis in Arabic sociolinguistics. Awarded a PhD in Asian and African Studies (2020) at Ca’ Foscari University of Venice, under joint supervision (cotutelle) with the Institut de Recherches et d'Études sur les Mondes Arabes et Musulmans (IREMAM, Aix–Marseille Université), with a dissertation entitled “Arabe Mixte 2.0: la variation syntaxique et stylistique dans les journaux numériques marocains (janvier–décembre 2016)”. Presented research on Arabic dialectology and sociolinguistics at several national and international conferences (SESAMO, ASAI, AIDA, AIMA). Served as a postdoctoral researcher (CNRS/IREMAM) at Aix–Marseille Université (January–December 2021) within the interdisciplinary project LiPoL – Littératures populaires du Levant (ANR19-CE27-0024). Currently an RTD-A (fixed-term researcher) in Arabic Language and Literature at the Department of Humanities, University of Catania, leading the SABIRANET project (CUP E63C24001920006; ID SOE2024_0000078), funded by the European Union – NextGenerationEU, PNRR (Mission 4 “Education and Research”, Component 2 “From Research to Business”, Investment 1.2 “Funding for projects submitted by young researchers”).
Research activities lie at the intersection of Arabic sociolinguistics, dialectology and Digital Humanities, with a focus on Mixed Arabic practices in Moroccan digital media and in Moroccan communities in Europe. The approach combines the design and analysis of multimodal corpora (written and spoken data), the description of morphosyntactic and stylistic features in diglossic settings, and the study of the ideological and identity-based reception of non-standard forms. As Principal Investigator of SABIRANET (CUP E63C24001920006; ID SOE2024_0000078), current work is dedicated to building a Moroccan multimodal corpus and to a comparative investigation of the circulation and reception of linguistic practices between Morocco and the Euro-Mediterranean space.