Associate Professor at the University of Bologna since 2014, she carries out her research within the Armenian studies. Her study interests are particularly focused on ancient and medieval Armenian literature, Armenian manuscripts and the history of the Armenian presence in Italy.
Education
In 1987 she graduated in Literature, classical studies, at the University of Bologna. In 1995 she obtained a PhD in Armenian Studies at the Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore in Milan.
Academic career
Since 2000 she has been working as a researcher at the University of Bologna in the scientific-disciplinary field L-OR/13 (Armenology, Caucasology, Mongolistics and Turkology). In February 2014 she was awarded the National Scientific Habilitation as associate professor. She has been an associate professor at the University of Bologna since 15 September 2014. In August 2018 he obtained the National Scientific Appointment as full professor.
Teaching activities
Since 2004-5 she has been teaching Armenian Culture and Language and Armenian Language and Literature at the University of Bologna (Degree and Master's degree courses). She organises and coordinates in-depth seminars on his discipline. Among the latest: ‘Medieval Armenia, epicentre of mobility between East and West’, Bologna, 18-19 May 2017, international workshop organised in collaboration with Irene Bueno and Federico Alpi; ‘Testi greci cristiani e traduzioni armene: un viaggio di andata e ritorno’, study day organised in collaboration with FICLIT (Antonio Cacciari and Daniele Tripaldi), Bologna, 12 October 2018; “Armenia, un popolo plurimillenario” (Ravenna and Bologna, 16 and 17 February 2023), in collaboration with the Ravenna DBC and ISMEO - Associazione Internazionale di Studi sul Mediterraneo e l'Oriente.
Scientific activity
In the years 1990-1992 she collaborated with the Centre d'études sur Grégoire de Nazianze at the Institut Orientaliste of the Université Catholique de Louvain, directed by Prof. Bernard Coulie. From 2005-2009, she coordinated international inter-university cooperation projects between Italy and Armenia. She has several national and international research and publication collaborations to her credit.
Institutional activities and academic appointments
Reference person for exchanges with several Armenian scientific institutions (Yerevan State University, Matenadaran, Oriental Institute of the Academy of Sciences of the Republic of Armenia) and with the University of Geneva. Since 1 November 2021, she has been coordinator of the degree course in Antropologia, religioni, civiltà orientali (ARCO).
Membership in scientific and editorial committees
Scientific committees
Member of the Association Internationale des études Arméniennes (A.I.E.A.); member of the Italian Armenian Section of the Padus-Araxes Association; member of the Association for the Study of Central Asia and the Caucasus in Italy (ASIAC) and its Steering Committee.
Editorial committees
Member of the editorial board of the Rassegna Armenisti Italiani published by the Padus-Araxes Association. Member of the Editorial Board of the journal Fundamental Armenology, published by the National Academy of Sciences of the Republic of Armenia. Member of the Scientific Committee of the journal The Countries and Peoples of the Near and Middle East, published by the Oriental Institute of the National Academy of Sciences of the Republic of Armenia. Member of the Scientific Committee of the journal Egypt and the Near and Middle East, published by the University of Pisa.
Since 2022 she has been co-editor of the journal Armeniaca. International Journal of Armenian Studies, available in open access at: https://edizionicafoscari.unive.it/it/edizioni4/riviste/armeniaca/
Acknowledgements
In 2006 she was appointed as a representative of Yerevan State University (YSU) in Italy. In 2010 she was appointed Academician in the Class of Near Eastern Studies of the Ambrosian Academy, Armenian Section; in 2014 she was Doctor honoris causa of the Academy of Sciences of the Republic of Armenia.
