Daniela Merolla
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Daniela Merolla (born 1960) is a Professor in Amazigh / Berber Literature and Art at the INALCO, Institut National des Langues et Civilisations Orientales (Sorbonne Paris-Cité).[1][2] Her work investigates intertextuality and multilingualism in African oral and written literatures, cinema, and websites.[3][4] She developed the notion of “Amazigh/Berber literary space”.[5][6]
After graduating at the University of Rome “La Sapienza” in history of religions and cultural anthropology, Daniela Merolla received her doctorate in comparative literature from Leiden University in the Netherlands and her “habilitation à diriger des recherches” at Aix-Marseille University in France.[7] She attended courses in Berber language, literature and linguistics at the University of Naples "L'Orientale" in Italy and at the INALCO (Berber Research Centre) in France. Her research included fieldwork in the Aurès and in Kabylia (Algeria), in the Rif and in the Sous (Morocco), as well as in migrant environments in France and in the Netherlands. Until 2015 she taught and did research in African Literatures and Media at Leiden University.[8][9]
Verba Africana series
Merolla established[10] the audiovisual series on oral performances Verba Africana thanks to an international network of researchers and universities[11] and in cooperation with the World Oral Literature Project.
