Ilaria Cicola

Adjunct professor and post-doc researcher at University of Bologna since 2017 she pursued her studies in Arabic language and linguistics, with particular emphasis on sectorial jargons, corpus linguistics and computational linguistics.Her research interested span from medieval Arabic alchemical jargon to the lexicon on non-normative sexualities in classical and modern texts. She is currently studying the semiautomatic annotation of digitalized corpora.She also works for the Instituto per l'Oriente C.A. Nallino to create a digital index of names and toponyms in the historical review "Oriente Moderno". From February 2024 she is a Research Fellow at the Department of Languages and Literatures at University of Bologna within the  PRIN project "Environmental Anomalies & Political Legitimacy in Global Eurasia, 12th-14th century".