GRASSI GIULIA FRANCESCA

Giulia Francesca Grassi is fixed-term researcher (RTT) of Semitic Philology and Semitic Linguistics at the Department of Asia, Africa, and the Mediterranean (DAAM) at the University of Naples L'Orientale.
She graduated in Udine in Conservation of Cultural Heritage/Archaeology, and obtained a PhD in Sciences of Antiquity at the same university. She worked for many years in Germany as researcher, first at the Philipps-Universität in Marburg (Department of Semitic Studies), then in Göttingen at the Georg-August Universität (Seminar for Old Testament Studies) and at the Academy of Sciences. She has given courses at the universities of Udine, Marburg, Göttingen and Berlin (Freie-Universität), ranging from Ancient Semitic Languages to Comparative Semitics and the History and Cultures of the Ancient Near East.
Her research focuses on Semitic languages, in particular on the texts attested between the late 2nd millennium BC and the first centuries AD, on epigraphy, on Aramaic and its history, on syntax, lexicon and anthroponymy.