Members

Esterino Adami
Associate Professor 
Dipartimento di Studi Umanistici
SSD: L-LIN/12 - lingua e traduzione - lingua inglese
Personal webpage and contacts: https://www.studium.unito.it/persone/esterino.adami

Esterino Adami is Associate Professor of English language and translation at the department of Humanities, University of Turin. His research mainly focuses on Indian English, postcoloniality in the Indian subcontinent, social and cultural implications for English-language education in India. He has extensively published on lexical and stylistic aspects of Indian English, on English-language Indian and diasporic authors, on the relevance of Indian food in the world, and on the symbolic values of the Indian railways in non-literary and literary texts. His current projects include the study of metaphors for English and languages in India, and the poetics of Indian English science fiction.

Giovanni B. Andornino
Assistant Professor
Dipartimento di Culture, Politica e Società
SSD: SPS/04 - scienza politica
Personal webpage and contacts: https://www.dcps.unito.it/do/docenti.pl/Show?_id=gandorni

Elisabetta Benigni
Associate Professor
Dipartimento di Lingue e Letterature straniere e Culture moderne
SSD: L-OR/12 - lingua e letteratura araba
Personal webpage and contacts: https://www.lingue.unito.it/do/docenti.pl/Show?_id=ebenigni#tab

Elisabetta Benigni is Associate Professor of Arabic literature. After having obtained her PhD from the University Sapienza in Rome, she was a postdoctoral fellow at the research program ‘Zukunftsphilologie’ at Freie Universitat in Berlin (2011-2012), at the Gotha research library (2012) and at the Italian Academy at Columbia University (2015). Her current research interests focus on intellectual and literary exchanges across the Eastern Mediterranean and on the circulation of texts between Italian and Arabic during the late Ottoman Empire. She is the P.I. of the collaborative project “Seas of Change Rethinking Entangled Renaissances”, which aims at retracing through archival research the networks of translations and exchange of reformist ideas across Arabic, Italian, Greek, Turkish and Albanian during the long 19 th century. Her publications include a monograph on prison literature in Egypt and articles on the first translations of Machiavelli and Dante into Arabic.

Tommaso Bobbio
Associate Professor
Dipartimento di Culture, Politica e Società
SSD: L-OR/17 - filosofie, religioni e storia dell'india e dell'asia centrale
Personal webpage and contacts: https://www.didattica- cps.unito.it/do/docenti.pl/Show?_id=tbobbio#tab- profilo

My main field of research is the History of colonial and post-colonial South Asia. My research focuses in particular on three themes: the dynamics of definition and construction of collective identities and the patterns that lead to the explosion of collective violence on communal lines; processes of definition and conception of citizenship, access to rights and participation and involvement to public life, as well as the way the definition of collective identities can become an instrument for specific claims; the construction of discourses about the collective (and national) past through reconstruction and conservation of heritage in the 20 th century.

Matteo Cestari
Associate Professor 
Dipartimento di Studi Umanistici
SSD: L-OR/20 - archeologia, storia dell'arte e filosofie dell'asia orientale
Personal webpage and contacts: https://www.studium.unito.it/persone/matteo.cestari

Gianluca Coci
Full Professor
Dipartimento di Lingue e Letterature straniere e Culture moderne
SSD: L-OR/22 - lingue e letterature del giappone e della corea
Personal webpage and contacts: https://www.dipartimentolingue.unito.it/persone/gianluca.coci

Gianluca Coci is Full Professor of Japanese Language and Literature at the Department of Foreign Languages ​​and Literatures and Modern Cultures, University of Turin, and Delegate of the Rector for Exchanges with Japan. He deals with modern and contemporary Japanese Literature, especially writers like Abe Kōbō and Ōe Kenzaburō, and postmodern authors such as Takahashi Gen’ichirō and Murakami Ryū. He has to his credit many books and papers about Contemporary Japanese Literature, and about sixty translations of novels by various authors (Ōe Kenzaburō, Abe Kōbō, Tanizaki Jun’ichirō, Murakami Ryū, Kirino Natsuo, Takahashi Gen’ichirō, Abe Kazushige, Kakuta Mitsuyo, Furukawa Hideo, Kawakami Mieko, Murata Sayaka and others). In 2009 he received the “Guglielmo and Mario Scalise Biennial Award” for literary translation from Japanese. In the 2020, the “Appiani Prize” for Translation.

Carmelina Concilio
Full Professor
Dipartimento di Lingue e Letterature straniere e Culture moderne
SSD: L-LIN/10 - letteratura inglese
Personal webpage and contacts: https://www.lingue.unito.it/persone/carmelina.concilio

Carmen Concilio is Full Professor of English and Postcolonial literature at the Department of Modern Languages Literatures and Modern Cultures of the University of Torino. She is president of the Italian Association for the Study of Cultures and Literatures in English (AISCLI). Her research interests involve the literature of the Indian Subcontinent and diasporic literature in English and has published academic works on authors such as Vikram Chandra, Anita Desai, Kiran Desai, Mahasweta Devi, Amitav Ghosh, Jhumpa Lahiri, Suketu Metha, Arundhati Roy, Salman Rushdie and on authors from Pakistan and Sri Lanka to whom she dedicated studies and reviews. She cooperates with academic journal Il Tolomeo (Venice), and with the magazine L’Indice dei libri del mese (Torino). She is part of international networks such as EACLALS, Challenging Precarity Global Network, and she is member of the board of the National Association of Anglistics (ANDA).

Stefano De Martino
Full Professor
Dipartimento di Studi Storici
SSD: L-OR/04 - anatolistica
Personal webpage and contacts: https://www.dipstudistorici.unito.it/persone/stefano.demartino

Monica De Togni
Associate Professor
Dipartimento di Studi Umanistici
SSD: L-OR/23 - storia dell'asia orientale e sud-orientale
Personal webpage and contacts: https://www.studium.unito.it/persone/monica.detogni

Rosita Di Peri 
Associate Professor 
Dipartimento di Culture, Politica e Società
SSD: SPS/04 - scienza politica
Personal webpage and contacts: https://www.didattica-cps.unito.it/persone/rosita.diperi

Rosita Di Peri is Associate Professor at the Department of Culture, Politics and Society (University of Turin), where she teaches ‘Politics, Institutions and Cultures of Middle East’. Her research interests are about democracy and authoritarianism in Middle East with a focus on Lebanon and Tunisia. She is the scientific coordinator of the Summer School ‘Understanding the Middle East’ (http://www.to-asia.it/to-mideast/ ) and member of the board of SeSaMO (Italian Association of Middle Eastern Studies). She published several articles in Italian and international Journals, such as ‘Mediterranean Politics’, ‘Rivista Italiana di Politiche Pubbliche’, ‘Rivista Italiana di Scienza Politica’, ‘Politics Religion and Ideology’, ‘Oriente Moderno’ and ‘Meridiana’. She authored the book ‘Il Libano contemporaneo’, Carocci, 2017 (in Italian) and co-edited several books and Special Issues, the latest is ‘Lebanon facing the Arab uprisings. Constraints and adaptations (ed. with Daniel Meier), London, Palgrave, 2017.

Giuseppe Gabusi
Assistant Professor
Dipartimento di Culture, Politica e Società
SSD: SPS/04 - scienza politica
Personal webpage and contacts: https://www.didattica-cps.unito.it/persone/giuseppe.gabusi

Francesco Grande
Associate Professor
Dipartimento di Studi Umanistici
SSD: L-OR/12 - lingua e letteratura araba
Personal webpage and contacts: https://www.studium.unito.it/do/docenti.pl/Alias?francesco.grande#tab

Barbara Leonesi 
Associate Professor
Dipartimento di Studi Umanistici
SSD: L-OR/21 - lingue e letterature della cina e dell'asia sud-orientale
Personal webpage and contacts: https://www.studium.unito.it/persone/barbara.leonesi

Alberto Masoero
Associate Professor
Dipartimento di Studi Storici
SSD: M-STO/03 - storia dell'europa orientale
Personal webpage and contacts: https://www.dipstudistorici.unito.it/persone/alberto.masoero

Vito Messina
Full Professor
Dipartimento di Studi Storici
SSD: L-OR/16 - archeologia e storia dell'arte dell'india e dell'asia centrale
Personal webpage and contacts: https://beniculturali.campusnet.unito.it/do/docenti.pl/Alias?vito.messina#profilo

Full Professor in Archaeology of Ancient Iran and Central Asia. Co-director of the Iranian-Italian Joint Expedition in Khuzestan (Iran). Director of the projects SigNet, (in)visible collections and Lost Hellenistic Sculptures of Mesopotamia and Iran, held in collaboration with international Institutions. Member of archaeological campaigns in Iran, Iraq, Turkmenistan and Jordan. Visiting professor and researcher at the University Lyon 2, University of Rome La Sapienza, and Getty Research Institute.
Affiliated to the Centro Ricerche Archeologiche e Scavi di Torino per il Medio Oriente e l’Asia and the Societas Iranologica Europæa. Member of the editorial boards of the Journals Parthica, Open Archaeology and Abstracta Iranica. Awarded the Prize ‘Drouin’ of the Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres (Paris). 

Daniela Moro

Associate Professor

Dipartimento di Studi Umanistici

SSD: L-OR/22 - lingue e letterature del giappone e della corea

Personal webpage and contacts: https://asiaeafricalm.campusnet.unito.it/persone/daniela.moro

Luca Ozzano
Associate Professor
Dipartimento di Culture, Politica e Società
SSD: SPS/04 - scienza politica
Personal webpage and contacts: https://www.dcps.unito.it/do/docenti.pl/Alias?luca.ozzano#profilo

Luca Ozzano is Associate Professor of Political Science at the University of Turin, where he teaches ‘Political Science’ and ‘Politics and Religion’. He is Convenor of the ‘Religion and Politics’ standing group of the European Consortium for Political Research (ECPR) and Chair of the research committee on ‘Religion and Politics’ of the International Political Science Association (IPSA). He is also Associate Editor of the journal Political Research Exchange (Taylor and Francis/ECPR). He has published (with Alberta Giorgi) European Culture Wars and the Italian case: Which Side Are you on? (Routledge 2016) and edited (with Francesco Cavatorta) Religiously Oriented Parties and Democratization (Routledge 2014).

Gianni Pellegrini
Associate Professor
Dipartimento di Studi Umanistici
SSD: L-OR/17 - filosofie, religioni e storia dell'india e dell'asia centrale
Personal webpage and contacts: https://www.studium.unito.it/persone/gianni.pellegrini

Associate Professor of Indian Philosophies and Religion, and Sanskrit Language and Literature at the Department of Humanities of the University of Turin. After 16 years of specialization in Sanskrit (Vedānta) at Varanasi (India), he has been awarded with the international Saraswati Award in 2012 (Heidelberg-Delhi). His principal area of interest is India or, more broadly, South-Asian. His specialization concerns metaphysical (Advaita Vedānta) and logical (Navya Nyāya) textual traditions, as well as the hermeneutic tradition of Yogasūtra with its interaction with Buddhist schools. Among his major publications there are: Symboles du monothéisme hindou (Paris 2013), Yogasūtra (with F. Squarcini, Torino 2016) and Meanings out of Rules (New York-Zurigo, 2018).  

Paola Sacchi
Assistant Professor
Dipartimento di Culture, Politica e Società
SSD: M-DEA/01 - discipline demoetnoantropologiche
Personal webpage and contacts: https://www.didattica-cps.unito.it/persone/paola.sacchi

Andrea Spagnolo
Associate Professor
Dipartimento di Giurisprudenza
SSD: IUS/13 - diritto internazionale
Personal webpage and contacts: https://www.dg.unito.it/persone/andrea.spagnolo

Andrea Spagnolo is Associate Professor of International Law in the Law Department of the University of Turin, where he teaches International Law, International Humanitarian Law and is Director of the International Human Rights Legal Clinic. He has held visiting positions at various universities and research centers including the Max Planck Institute for European, International and Regulatory Procedural Law, the Amsterdam Center for International Law and the Human Rights Center of the University of Ghent. He is the author of a book on the attribution of conduct in the context of European Union peacekeeping operations and of more than forty publications on the responsibility of international organizations, international migration law, peacekeeping, international humanitarian law and human rights.

Mauro Tosco
Full Professor
Dipartimento di Studi Umanistici
SSD: L-OR/09 - lingue e letterature dell'africa
Personal webpage and contacts: https://www.studium.unito.it/persone/mauro.tosco

Mauro Tosco is professor of African Linguistics at the University of Turin. His main area of research is the Horn of Africa, where he has been working on the analysis and description of Cushitic languages in an areal and typological perspective. Among his books: A Grammatical Sketch of Dahalo (Hamburg, 1991), Tunni: Grammar, Texts and Vocabulary of a Southern Somali Dialect (Köln, 1997), The Dhaasanac Language (Köln, 2001); a grammar and a dictionary of Gawwada are in press. A native speaker of Piedmontese, he works on the expansion and revitalization of minority languages, language policy and ideology. Pidgins, creoles and language contact (Pidgin and Creole Languages: A Basic Introduction; München, 2001; with Alan S. Kaye) are his third main domain of research.

Maurizio Viano
Associate Professor
Dipartimento di Studi Storici
Personal webpage and contacts: https://www.dipstudistorici.unito.it/do/docenti.pl/Show?_id=_mviano#tab-profilo

Currently an Associate Professor, since 2018 I was Assistant Professor and Marie Curie Global Fellow of Assyriology at the Department of Historical Studies of the University of Turin. I was Visiting Assistant Professor at the Near Eastern Department of the University of California, Berkeley. My research activity focuses on two main subjects: socio-economic history and Sumerian-Akkadian literature. The Syrian city of Emar (14th-13th century BC) has been the subject of several studies on land ownership, real property prices and the credit system. On the other hand, my research concentrated on the transmission of Sumerian literature to the Western periphery during the Late Bronze Age, namely to the sites of Hattuša, Emar and Ugarit. In the framework of the Marie Curie funded project BRISDOM, I am currently working on wisdom literature in Mesopotamia and Greece.