Brief curriculum vitae Petra Caruana Dingli
B.A., B.A.(Hons), M.A. (Melit.), D.Phil. (Oxon), M.B.A.(Maastricht)
Dr Petra Caruana Dingli was born in Malta in 1968. She graduated B.A. in English,
Philsophy and Sociology at the University of Malta. She continued her studies in
literature and graduated B.A.(Hons) and M.A. at the University of Malta. She then wrote
a doctoral thesis at the University of Oxford, UK, and graduated D.Phil. in 2000. She
obtained an M.B.A. in business management from the Maastricht School of Management
in 2003.
Dr Caruana Dingli was director for environment protection at the Malta Environment and
Planning Authority from 2011-2013. She was formerly director and executive president
of the environment and heritage NGO Din l-Art Helwa, and director of the British
Council in Malta from 2009-2011. She lectures on literature within the Faculty of Arts
and the International Institute for Baroque Studies at the University of Malta. In 2003 and
2005 she co-ordinated the Manoel Baroque Festival on behalf of the Manoel Theatre in
Valletta and the International Institute for Baroque Studies, and in 2000 she co-ordinated
the Festival of Mediterranean Literature at St James Cavalier Centre for Creativity. She
has written widely on subjects related to literature, cultural heritage and the environment.
She is co-editor (as Petra Bianchi) with Prof Peter Serracino Inglott of Encounters with
Malta (2000), a history of Malta seen through the eyes of visitors to the island. She is coeditor with Alberto Miceli Farrugia of Modernist Malta:the Architectural Legacy (2009)
and of Pynchon, Malta and Wittgenstein (1995) with Prof Peter Serracino Inglott and
Prof Arnold Cassola. She has also published a novel Family Photos (2008). Her articles
include: ‘A Noble Aim’: Henry Lushington and the Italian Question (forthcoming 2015);
Standard Bearers of Free Enterprise:Memories of the Malta Chamber since the 1970s
(2013); Modernist Architecture in the 1950s and 60s: the Maltese Public and the
Architects (2009); ‘Daughter of th’ Italian Heaven!’: Madame de Stael’s Corinne in
England (2001); Visitors to the Grand Masters Palace in Valletta (2001); From
Improvvisatrice to Beatrice: Gabriele Rossetti’s Influence on his Daughter Christina
(1998); Rispetti and Sonnets: the Anglo-Italian Context of Augusta Webster’s Later
Poetry (1997); From Don Basilio to Le Tre Rome: Giuseppe Cali’s Risorgimento (1997);
The Wittgensteinian Thread in Thomas Pynchon’s Labyrinth (1995)
Dr Caruana Dingli has been a member of the following boards and committees: Ornis
Committee (2011-2013); Today Public Policy Institute (2008-to date); Committee of
Guarantee (2008-2011); Valletta/Mdina/Cottonera Rehabilitation committee (20082011); Majjistral Nature and History Park Management Board (2007-2011); Council for
Voluntary Organisations (2008-2010); National Federation of NGOs of Malta (20072009); St James Cavalier Centre for Creativity Management Board (2000-2008).
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