Aurora Magliozzi

Aurora Magliozzi is a Junior Postdoctoral Fellow at the Walter Benjamin Kolleg (University of Bern, Faculty of Humanities). Her research focuses on Arabic literary disputes (mufāḫarāt or munāẓarāt) of the Abbasid period. She also serves as Subject Expert in Arabic Literature at the University of Naples “L’Orientale” and as vice-director of the journal Maydan. Rivista sui mondi arabi, semitici e islamici. She completed her Ph.D. in Asian, African, and Mediterranean Studies at the University of Naples “L’Orientale” in 2025, with a dissertation entitled “The Dispute over Boys and Girls as Objects of Male Desire in adab Literature (9th–14th Century).” In 2019 she worked as an assistant researcher at the Escuela de Estudios Árabes (EEA-CSIC) in Granada and in 2023 as an associate researcher at the Fachbereich Mittlerer Osten und muslimische Gesellschaften (MOMuG), University of Bern. She studied Arabic in Rabat and Amman, gaining training in both Modern Standard Arabic and dialects. Her research interests include premodern Arabic prose literature, history of Arabic literature, gender and eroticism in premodern Islamicate contexts, literary dispute.

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