Teresa Pepe is Associate Professor in Arabic Studies at the University of Oslo. Her research interests span across Arabic literature, media, popular culture, sociolinguistics, and the relation between aesthetics and politics.
She obtained her PhD in 2014 from the University of Oslo with a thesis entitled “Fictionalized Identities in the Egyptian Blogosphere.” She completed her MA in Comparative Literature and Culture (with a focus on Arabic and English Literature) at the University “L’Orientale” in Napoli in 2008. Between 2015 and 2017 she worked as a Post-Doc fellow at the Department of Culture Studies and Oriental Languages at the University of Oslo, with a research project entitled "The adīb and adab—Demise, or metamorphosis, the project: of a key figure and of a key concept of the Arab modernist project?" The project explored how concepts of "intellectuals", "author", and "literature" have evolved during the twentieth century in Arabic/Egyptian society.
She has published several articles in Oriente Moderno, Journal of Arabic and Islamic Studies and LEA-Lingue e Letterature d’Oriente e d’Occidente. She is co-editor of the volume Arabic Writing in the Posthuman Age (Harrassowitz-Verlag 2019, with Stephan Guth) that examines the use of dystopia, necropolitics, monsters, and satire in Arabic literature today.
