Annalisa Bocchetti earned her Ph.D. in Asian, African and Mediterranean Studies from "L'Orientale" University of Naples, Italy (February 2022), where she has also studied Hindi and Urdu literatures. In the same year, she was awarded a short-term scholarship (January-April 2022) as part of a demo project “iCHeriSH - inputting Cultural Heritage and Side Histories into the digital arena: Towards a collaborative network for South Asia”, dealing with materials related to North Indian oral literature.
She is now a FWO Junior Post-Doctoral Fellow at Ghent University where she will have the opportunity to bring her Ph.D. research to a further stage with a project entitled Challenging and expanding the national canon: the case of Usmān’s Citrāvalī (1613) and its afterlife in India’s multilingual contexts (2022-2025) under the supervision of Prof. Dr. Eva De Clercq.
Among her interests are North Indian narrative traditions, particularly those associated with the pre-modern era but not limited to it, Hindi, Urdu, Indo-Persian literary cultures, and Sufism.
