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Daniela Merolla
Daniela Merolla lectures African Literatures at the Department of African Languages and Cultures, University of Leiden, the Netherlands. She is the director of the audio-visual series Verba Africana (Leiden University). Two of her publications on African websites are ‘Digital imagination and the “Landscapes of Group Identities”: Berber diaspora and the flourishing of theatre, video’s, and Amazigh-Net’, The Journal of North African Studies, 2002, pp. 122–31; and ‘Migrant websites, webart, and digital imagination’, in S. Ponzanesi and D. Merolla (eds), Migrant Cartographies, New Cultural and Literary Spaces in Post-Colonial Europe, USA: Lexington Books, 2005, pp. 217–28. She published on Tamazight, including ‘Dangerous love in mythical narratives and formula tales’, Religion, vol. 39, 2009, pp. 283–88; and De l’art de la narration tamazight (berbère). 200 cents ans d’études : état des lieux et perspectives, Paris-Louvain: Peeters, 2006. She edited (with E. Bekers and S. Helff) Transcultural Modernities: Narrating Africa in Europe, Amsterdam: Rodopi, 2009 and (with J. Jansen and K. Naït-Zerrad) Multimedia Research and Documentation of Oral Genres in Africa – The Step Forward, Köln: Köppe Verlag, 2012.