Curriculum Vitae

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

Dissertation: 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

Fieldwork: Java, Indonesia

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

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

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

Fieldwork: North Kalimantan, Indonesia

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

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

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

Fieldwork: North Sulawesi, Indonesia

Supervisors: Prof. A. Soriente

In uscita — Menghini, P. & Sausa, L.

"The Roots of Political Shi'ism in Indonesia: Scholarly Networks between Iraq and Indonesia" Forthcoming in: Global Shi'ism: Scholars, Migrants, and the Islamic Revival before 1979, edited by Christopher Cooper-Davies and 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" Afterword to La notte dei Mille Inferi, by 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

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

Paper presented at 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.

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

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

Description & dissemination: building a web-dictionary and an Android app.

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

Workshop on essential techniques for linguistic data collection.

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

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

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

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

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

2026 — Paramaditha, I.

La notte dei Mille Inferi (orig. Malam Seribu Jahanam). Translated from Indonesian by Luigi Sausa. Torino: ADD Editore. 444 pp. ISBN: 9788867835607.

Associate Professor Antonia Soriente

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

Associate Professor Aurora Donzelli

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

Associate Professor Deborah Cole

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