Dr. Luca Rizzo

Research assistant in subproject B03 "Canonisation and Diversification in Islamic Law and in Arabic Rhetoric in Comparison"

CRC 1385 "Law and Literature"
Domplatz 6
Room 215
Phone: +49 251 83-28334
l_rizz02@uni-muenster.de

Institute for Arabic and Islamic Studies
Schlaunstraße 2, 48143 Münster

Homepage: https://uni-m.academia.edu/LucaRizzo
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/luca-rizzo-36bb7598/

  • Research areas

    • Arabic Language and pre-modern Arabic Literature
    • Rhetoric
    • Text Linguistics
    • Semiotics

  • Academic Positions

    • 2022: Visiting professor of Arabian literature, Università degli Studi di Torino
    • since 2019: Research assistant at the CRC 1385
    • 2018-2019: Scientific Assistant, University of Münster
    • 2016-2018: Teaching Associate, University of Münster
    • 2015-2016: Tutor of Arabic Language, Ca' Foscari University of Venice
    • 2014: Teaching Associate, Université de Liège
    • 2013-2014: Tutor of Arabic Language, Ca' Foscari University of Venice


    Education

    • 2015-2020: Joint research Ph.D  between Ca' Foscari University of Venice (Asian and African Studies) and WWI Münster (Arabistik und Islamwissenschaft)
    • 2011-2014: Master in Language and Civilisation of Asia and Mediterranean Africa, Ca' Foscari University of Venice
    • 2006-2009: Bachelor's degree in foreign Languages, Art, History and Civilisation, Ca' Foscari University of Venice (Arabic and French)
    • 2008-2009: ERASMUS Programme, Institut Nationale des Langues et Civilisations Orientales, Paris

  • Publications

    Book

    1. New Perspectives on Tawriya. Theory and Practice of Ambiguity. Baden-Baden: Ergon 2022 (in print).

    Editorship

    1. Texts in Between Action and Non-Action. Genesis, Strategies, and Outcomes of Textual Agency. Annali di Ca' Foscari. Serie Orientale 54 supplemento (2018). http://doi.org/10.30687/AnnOr/2385-3042/2018/02 (with Carlotta De Sanctis et al.).

    Papers

    1. "On the morphology of the word tawriya according to al-Ṣafadī (d. 764/1363): Between Baṣrans and Kūfans." In: Kervan – International Journal of Afro-Asiatic Studies 25 i (2021): 31-50, https://doi.org/10.13135/1825-263X/5891.
    2. "The Narrative Structure of Ambiguity. A Semiotic Analysis of a Tawriya-Epigram by Ibn al-ʿAṭṭār (d. 794/1392)." In: Texts in Between Action and Non-Action. Genesis, Strategies, and Outcomes of Textual Agency. Annali di Ca' Foscari. Serie Orientale 54 supplemento (2018): 537-574, http://doi.org/10.30687/AnnOr/2385-3042/2018/01/025.
    3. "Foreword." In: Texts in Between Action and Non-Action. Genesis, Strategies, and Outcomes of Textual Agency. Annali di Ca' Foscari. Serie Orientale 54 supplemento (2018): 445-447. http://doi.org/10.30687/AnnOr/2385-3042/2018/01/020 (with Carlotta De Sanctis et al.).

    Reviews

    1. Review of: Adam Talib, How Do You Say 'Epigram' in Arabic? Literary History at the Limits of Comparison, Leiden/Boston: Brill, 2018, xii, 337." Quaderni di Studi Arabi nuova serie 13 (2018): 238-239.

  • Talks

    1. "Postclassica e decadente: superamento di alcuni luoghi comuni sulla letteratura araba di epoca mamelucca (1250-1517)." Lecture given as a part of the Arabic Literature course, Ca' Foscari University of Venice, 05/2021.

    2. "Ambiguity as a Hermeneutic Device in Koranic Exegesis and as a Productive Device in Literary Practice." Workshop of the Forum 'Theory' at the CRC 1385 Zum Verhältnis zwischen den Hermeneutiken des Rechts und der Literatur, WWU Münster, 03/2021.

    3. "Iqtibās and tawriya. How to Manipulate a Narrative World." 29th Conference of the Union Européenne des Arabisants et Islamisants, Münster, 09/2018.
    4. "Tawriya and Semiotics: A New Perspective of Analysis." Eurasian Connections. Graduate Students Workshop, Heidelberg University, 05/2018.
    5. "A Walk in Ibn Ḥiǧǧa’s Tawriya-Epigrams." The Racecourse of Literature. An-Nawāǧī and His Contemporaries. International Conference of the Leibnizpreis-Research-Unit Arabische Literatur und Rhetorik Elfhundert bis Achtzehnhundert (ALEA), WWU Münster, 05/2018.
    6. "La struttura narratologica dell’ambiguità: una prima analisi semiotica della tawriya in alcuni epigrammi arabi di epoca mamelucca (1250-1517)." Seminario Inerzia e solerzia del testo. Genesi, mezzi, esiti dell'agire testuale, Università Ca' Foscari Venezia, 12/2017.