Luigi Sausa, Ph.D.

Telefono: +39 373 880 1214

Email: luigi.sausa@gmail.com | l.sausa@unior.it

Sito web: luigisausa.me

Lingue

Italian (C2) | English (C1) | Indonesian (C1) | Arabic (B2) | French (B2) | Thai (B1)

Formazione

Ph.D., Asia, Africa, and Mediterranean Studies

Nov 2021 – Jul 2025

Università di Napoli "L'Orientale", Napoli

Tesi: Shaping Communities Through Language Practices, Ideologies, and Mobility: The Diaspora language of the Arab-descent Communities in Surakarta, Surabaya and Jakarta.

Repository: https://hdl.handle.net/11574/248980

Ricerca sul campo: Java, Indonesia

Supervisori: Prof. A. Soriente; Prof. A. Donzelli; Prof. R. Contini

M.A., Oriental Languages and Civilizations

Jul 2020

Università di Napoli "L'Orientale", Napoli

Tesi: Stance-taking and style in social interactions on Tarakan Island, North Kalimantan.

Ricerca sul campo: North Kalimantan, Indonesia

Supervisori: Prof. A. Soriente; Prof. L. D'Anna

B.A., Oriental and African Languages and Cultures

Feb 2018

Università di Napoli "L'Orientale", Napoli

Tesi: Code-switching in social interactions in North Sulawesi, Indonesia.

Ricerca sul campo: North Sulawesi, Indonesia

Supervisori: Prof. A. Soriente

Ruoli attuali

Pubblicazioni e lavori in uscita

In uscita — Menghini, P. & Sausa, L.

"The Roots of Political Shi'ism in Indonesia: Scholarly Networks between Iraq and Indonesia" In uscita su: Global Shi'ism: Scholars, Migrants, and the Islamic Revival before 1979, a cura di Christopher Cooper-Davies e John-Paul Ghobrial.

2026 — Sausa, L.

"A preliminary description of the discourse marker ba(h): An interactional particle in the region of Tarakan, North Kalimantan" Language & Communication, 107, 205–221.

https://doi.org/10.1016/j.langcom.2026.02.002

2026 — Sausa, L.

"Sono sempre le sorellastre brutte a cominciare le rivoluzioni" Postfazione a La notte dei Mille Inferi, di Intan Paramaditha. Torino: ADD Editore.

2024 — Sausa, L.

"What Is Religious Authority? Cultivating Islamic Communities in Indonesia," by Ismail Fajrie Alatas European Journal of East Asian Studies, 23(3), 351–353.

https://doi.org/10.1163/15700615-02303005

2024 — Sausa, L.

"La traiettoria politica di Anies Baswedan: Moderatismo e spazio diasporico" RISE, 9(1). Torino: TWAI.

https://www.twai.it/articles/traiettoria-politica-anies-baswedan/

2024 — Sari, A., Farhah, E., & Sausa, L.

"The Relevance of the Short Story Syamsyun al-Jabbar to the Narrative of Prophet Syam'un: A New Historicism Study" ALLAIS Journal of Arabic Language and Literature, 3(2), 42–62.

https://doi.org/10.22515/allais.v3i2.9568

Conferenze e interventi

Apr 2025 — "The Roots of Political Shi'ism in Indonesia: Scholarly Networks between Iraq and Indonesia"

Relazione presentata a Global Shi'ism: Migrations, Diasporas, and the Islamic Revival (University of Oxford), Oxford, UK.

Jun 2025 — "What We Talk About When We Talk About Bahasa Majlas: A Semiotic Register Among Arab-Descendant Communities in Indonesia"

5th ITASEAS Conference (University of Turin), Turin, Italy.

Jul 2024 — "Localizing Strangers: Arab Identity in Contemporary Southeast Asia"

EuroSEAS 2024, Amsterdam, Netherlands.

Oct 2023 — "Shaping Communities Through Language Practices, Ideologies, and Mobility: Arab-Descendant Communities in Surakarta and Jakarta"

Documenting Languages, Documenting Cultures (University of Naples Federico II), Naples, Italy.

Feb 2023 — "The Discourse Marker ba: A Polyfunctional Pragmatic Particle in Tarakan (North Kalimantan)"

Knownit — Sources of Knowledge in Talk-in-Interaction (USI — Università della Svizzera italiana), Lugano, Switzerland.

Sep 2018 — "The Semiotic Complexity of Arabic in Contemporary Indonesia"

Indonesian Sociolinguistics Online Seminar (University of Queensland), Online.

May 2019 — "Galau, Comics in Translation: Translation Process and Pragmatic Equivalence in Indonesian-Italian Translation of Galauman"

4th ITASEAS Conference, Turin, Italy.

Esperienza didattica

Jun 2025ASEAN History and Politics – The Islamization of Indonesia, Cultural Trajectories (B.A.)

Sapienza – University of Rome, Rome, Italy

Jul 2024Indonesian Language and Literature (Short Seminar, B.A. & M.A.)

University of Naples "L'Orientale", Naples, Italy

Jun 2024Diasporas and Languages in Southeast Asia (Seminar, B.A. & M.A.)

University of Naples "L'Orientale", Naples, Italy

Jul 2023Indonesian Language, First Level (Short Seminar, B.A. & M.A.)

University of Naples "L'Orientale", Naples, Italy

Jun 2023Mahasiswa Mengenal Orientalisme & Oksidentalisme...

Fakultas Ushuluddin dan Dakwah, Universitas Raden Mas Said

Mar 2023The Comparison of Working Behaviour Between Indonesian & Italian

Department of Islamic Sociology, Universitas Raden Mas Said, Surakarta

Mar 2023Mengenali Antropologi Bahasa

Pusat Bahasa, Universitas Raden Mas Said

Mar 2023Pertemuan con Mahasiswa Sastra Arab

Program Studi Bahasa dan Sastra Arab, Universitas Raden Mas Said, Surakarta

Scambi internazionali e workshop

Mar 2025 — Relatore, Seminar on Methods and Digital Tools, University of Naples "L'Orientale"

Descrizione e disseminazione: costruzione di un web-dictionary e di una app Android.

Jul 2023 — Relatore, Data Collection: Everything I've Always Wanted to Know... But Where Afraid to Ask, University of Naples "L'Orientale"

Workshop su tecniche essenziali per la raccolta dei dati linguistici.

Feb 2024 — Partecipante, EISA — École Itinérante de Sociolinguistique Arabe, Meknès, Morocco

Aug 2023 — Organizzatore, International Olympiad on Islamic Economics and Business (IOSIE), Asosiasi Fakultas Ekonomi dan Bisnis, Surakarta

Jul 2023 — Partecipante, Language Documentation Summer School, University of Naples "L'Orientale"

Jul 2022 — Partecipante, Language Documentation Summer School, University of Tuscia, Viterbo, Italy

Sep 2018 — Partecipante, FieldLing — International School in Linguistic Fieldwork, INALCO, Paris, France

Mobilità internazionale

Attività editoriale

Curatela editoriale, Maydan: Vol. 4 (2024), Vol. 3 (2023), Vol. 2 (2022), Vol. 1 (2021).

Traduzione letteraria

2026 — Paramaditha, I.

La notte dei Mille Inferi (tit. or. Malam Seribu Jahanam). Traduzione dall'indonesiano di Luigi Sausa. Torino: ADD Editore. 444 pp. ISBN: 9788867835607.

Referenze

Prof.ssa associata Antonia Soriente

University of Naples L'Orientale, Italy | asoriente@unior.it

Prof.ssa associata Aurora Donzelli

University of Bologna, Italy | aurora.donzelli@unibo.it

Prof.ssa associata Deborah Cole

Utrecht University, Netherlands | d.l.cole@uu.nl