Teresa Pepe
Academic Interests
Arabic literature; Online Cultural Production; New Media in the Middle East; Blog-literature; Autofiction.
Higher education and employment history
Teresa Pepe holds a BA in Comparative Languages and Cultures (2006) and a MA in Comparative Literatures (2008) from the Faculty of Literature and Philosophy of the University of Naples, “L’Orientale”. During these years she studied Arabic language at the Bourghiba Institute in Tunisi (Tunisia) and at Cairo University (Egypt). In 2009-10 she enrolled as a research fellow at the American University in Cairo to carry out researches about World literature, Arabic literature and New Media studies.
Previous Employment
Italian language teaching to Arabic-speakers
English language teaching at International Italian school in Cairo, Egypt.
Italian- Arabic legal translator for Arab migrants
Ongoing and planned research projects at Institutt for kulturstudier og orientalske språk
Phd project: Fictionalized Identities in Egyptian Online Literature
Publications
Publications
Articles:
“Autofiction on Screen: Self-representation of an Egyptian ‘Spinster’ in a Literary Blog” in Journal of New Media Studies in MENA, Issue 1, Winter 2012.
“From the Blogosphere to the Bookshop: Publishing Literary Blogs in Egypt”, in Between Everyday Life and Political Revolution: The Social Web in the Middle East, Oriente Moderno, Nuova Serie, Anno XCI, 1, 2011.
Bookchapters:
“Autofiction on screen” in Women and New Media in the Mediterranean Region, edited by Fatima Sadiqi, Imprimerie des Universités (Fez), 2012.
Conference Presentations:
“Narratives of the Egyptian revolution in Egyptian Personal Blogs”, in “Narrating the Arab Spring”, Department of English, Faculty of Arts, University of Cairo, 18-20 February 2012.
“Self-writing in Egyptian Literary Blogs”, presented at the International, Interdisciplinary Conference “Technologies of the Self: New Departures in Self-Inscription", University College Cork, 2-3 September 2011.
“Autofiction on Screen: Self-representation of Egyptian women in Literary Blogs”, presented at the International Forum on “Women and New Media in Mediterranean Region”, Fez, 24-26 June 2011.
“Turning blogs into books in Egypt”, presented at World Congress for Middle Eastern Studies (WOCMES), Barcelona, 19-24 July 2010.
- Guth, Stephan & Pepe, Teresa (2012). The Arab Spring and the Individual: Literary aspects from before and after the Revolution.