Short biography
A PhD student at the University of Oslo, 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.
The working title of her PhD project is "Fictionalized Identities in Egyptian Online Literature."