Carolina TOSO

Joint PhD Candidate between Ca' Foscari University of Venice (DSAAM Department of Asian and North African Studies) and the University of Amsterdam (AHM Amsterdam School for Heritage, Memory and Material Culture), under the supervision of Simone Sibilio and Ihab Saloul

Academic tutor for the following university courses at Ca' Foscari University of Venice:
A.Y. 2025/2026 (call 545/2025): BA course 'Arabic Language 3' (30h), BA course 'Elementary Arabic' (30h), MA course 'Arabic Language 2' (30h)
A.Y. 2024/2025 (call 869/2024): MA course ‘Arabic Literature 2’ (30h), MA course ‘Topical Seminar in Environmental Humanities’ (30h)

EDUCATION

• 2022 Master’s Degree in Sociology and Social Research: Management of Organisations and of the Social Territory, University of Trento, 110/110 cum laude
  Thesis: Place-Making and Cultural Identity in the Diaspora: Ethnography of a Palestinian Concept-Store in Paris
• 2021-2022 Erasmus+ Scholarship, M2 Pratiques de l’interdisciplinarité en sciences sociales, École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales / École Normale Supérieure-Paris Sciences & Lettres, grade average: 17.4/20
• 2021-2022 Académie Notre Europe, year-long training on EU affairs and institutions organised by Institut Jacques Delors
• 2019 First-class Honours Degree, European and Middle Eastern Languages (Spanish and Arabic), University of Oxford, Pembroke College 
  Bridge Essay: Creation in Destruction in Prison Poetry: Writing in the Barzakh or Limbo
  Distinction in Spoken Arabic and Spoken Spanish; Domus Scholarship renewed twice; Christopher Pratt Memorial Prize; Collection Prizes
• 2016-2017 Intensive Arabic Language Course, Institut Français du Proche-Orient of Amman 

PUBLICATIONS

• Articles
  • ‘Return to/through Postmemories: ʿAraba qadīma bi-satāʾir by Ġassān Zaqṭān', Maydan, rivista sui mondi arabi, semitici e islamici (forthcoming 2026).
  • ‘Come scrivere di Gaza? Poesie di Fady Joudah e Mosab Abu Toha’, Gli asini 118 (2025), pp.49-54.

• Book Chapters
  • 'Transgenerational Traumatic Transfer as Reverberation: Researching Contemporary Palestinian Literature through a Postmemory Lens', in Postmemory and Ongoing Trauma in the Levant, edited by Farah Aboubakr and Luisa Gandolfo, Edinburgh University Press (forthcoming).

• Book Reviews
  • Novel Palestine: Nation through the Works of Ibrahim Nasrallah, written by Nora E. H. Parr, Quaderni di Studi Arabi (forthcoming 2025).

• Public Engagement
  • ‘Storie incastonate nella Storia. Raccontare la memoria palestinese nella lingua dell’Altro’, Orient XXI, 31/01/2025.

CONFERENCE AND SEMINAR PAPERS

• 'Creating Livability from within a Double Ġurba in Nahr yastaḥimmu fī al-buḥayra by Yaḥyà Yaẖlif'. 16th EURAMAL Conference. University of St Andrews. 22-26 June 2026. (forthcoming)
• ‘L'apport de la littérature à la conservation du patrimoine palestinien dans Arḍ al sulaḥfāh de Liana Badr' / 'The Contribution of Literature to the Preservation of Palestinian Heritage in Liana Badr’s Arḍ al-sulaḥfāh'. 6e congrès des études sur le Moyen-Orient et les mondes musulmans. Université de Strasbourg. 24-27 June 2025.
• 'Afterlives of Trauma and Literary Acts of Memory: Return Narratives in Palestinian Novels after the Oslo Accords'. Online Thesis Workshop, Palestinian Cultural Expressions: Supporting Critical Research and Creative Resistance in and Through Palestinian Arts. Universitat de Barcelona. 2-6 June 2025.
• ‘On the Necessity for a Polyphonic Framework to Study adab al-ʿāʾidīn’. International Doctoral Workshop in Asian and African Studies (IDSAAS) V. Sapienza Università di Roma. 20-22 February 2025. 
• ‘Return to/through Postmemories: ʿAraba qadīma bi-satāʾir by Ġassān Zaqṭān'. Le Giornate di studio di Maydan e SeSaMO. Riflessioni sui mondi arabi, semitici e islamici. Alma Mater Studiorum - Università di Bologna, Italy. 3-4 February 2025.

MEMBERSHIPS

• Member of the Editorial Board of Maydan, rivista sui mondi arabi, semitici e islamici