Valentina A. Grasso is an Assistant Professor of Semitics at The Catholic University of America in Washington (D.C.). She was previously Visiting Assistant Professor at New York University’s Institute for the Study of the Ancient World, and an affiliate member of the ERC project ‘The Qur’an as a Source for Late Antiquity’.

Valentina is currently part of the committee of the London Society for Medieval Studies, and a chair of the International Qur'anic Studies Association “Qur'an and Late Antiquity” Program Unit. Valentina holds a Ph.D. (Divinity, 2021) from the University of Cambridge.

Her first monograph was published by Cambridge University Press in February 2023 (https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/preislamic-arabia/7A4F01CE86E873BF6A00C4DB99652C83). She is currently working on her second monograph while co-editing a volume on Indic imagery (Brepols 2024) and a special issue on Arabian epigraphy and Early Islam.