Letizia Cerqueglini (1984) studied at the University of Pisa, graduating in Semitic Philology (2009). She then earned a joint PhD in Linguistics in the frame of a co-tutorship agreement between the University of Pisa and the Ben-Gurion University of the Negev (2014). She is currently a Post-Doc fellow at the Ben-Gurion University of the Negev. Her main research interests involve cognitive linguistics, fieldwork linguistics in the Middle East and Arabic dialectology
