Curriculum Vitae
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 2025Università 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 2020Università 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 2018Università 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
- Membro, Comitato organizzativo e scientifico, Italian Association of Southeast Asian Studies (ITASEAS).
- Editor (Sud-est asiatico), Maydan: Rivista sui Mondi Arabi, Semitici e Islamici (commissioning, editing e revisione dei contributi sul Sud-est asiatico; raccordo con autori e redazione).
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.
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.
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.
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 2025 — ASEAN History and Politics – The Islamization of Indonesia, Cultural Trajectories (B.A.)
Sapienza – University of Rome, Rome, Italy
Jul 2024 — Indonesian Language and Literature (Short Seminar, B.A. & M.A.)
University of Naples "L'Orientale", Naples, Italy
Jun 2024 — Diasporas and Languages in Southeast Asia (Seminar, B.A. & M.A.)
University of Naples "L'Orientale", Naples, Italy
Jul 2023 — Indonesian Language, First Level (Short Seminar, B.A. & M.A.)
University of Naples "L'Orientale", Naples, Italy
Jun 2023 — Mahasiswa Mengenal Orientalisme & Oksidentalisme...
Fakultas Ushuluddin dan Dakwah, Universitas Raden Mas Said
Mar 2023 — The Comparison of Working Behaviour Between Indonesian & Italian
Department of Islamic Sociology, Universitas Raden Mas Said, Surakarta
Mar 2023 — Mengenali Antropologi Bahasa
Pusat Bahasa, Universitas Raden Mas Said
Mar 2023 — Pertemuan 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
- 2022 – 2024 — Universitas Islam Negeri Raden Mas Said Surakarta, Indonesia
- Sep 2019 – Jan 2020 — Universitas Borneo Tarakan, Indonesia
- Sep 2018 – Jan 2019 — Universitas Sumatera Utara, Medan, Indonesia
- Jun – Aug 2019 — An-Najah National University, Nablus, Palestine
- Jun – Aug 2018 — Dar Comboni, Cairo, Egypt
- Sep 2017 – Jan 2018 — Universitas Negeri Manado, Indonesia
- Sep 2016 – Jul 2017 — INALCO, Paris, France
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