Fabio Mangraviti earned a PhD in “Civilizations of Asia and Africa” at Sapienza University, Rome, in 2021. Currently, as a Post-Doctoral Fellow at the Italian Institute of Oriental Studies (ISO) at Sapienza University, he has been awarded the Marie Sklodowska-Curie Actions 2023 fellowship, within the framework of the Horizon Europe funding programme. His award-winning project, named FISM (“Fighting with a Smile: Satirical and Humourist Voices of Resilience from Hindi Speaking Subaltern Subjects and Communities”) takes an
interdisciplinary approach to investigate the different functions of satire and humour in the contemporary Hindi literary and extra-literary spheres. The results of his research have
been published in internationally recognized journals, such as Kervan and Cracow Indological Studies.