Expertise

Subject Area:

  • Italian

Areas of Expertise:

  • Modern and contemporary Italian literature and culture
  • Noir, pulp, sci-fi literature
  • Environmental Humanities
  • Gender Studies
  • Italian cinema
  • Posthumanism
  • Ecopoetics

My second book-length project ("A Pastoral Cookbook") explores pastoral beauty as a traditional recipe that has evolved into contemporary Italian ecopoetics.

I have also been conducting research on constructs of gender, nature, and sense of place in Italian culture, through the lens of queer ecology, trans studies, and feminist environmentalism.

Past Affiliations

PhD Student, Department of Romance Studies, Fine Arts & Humanities, College of Arts & Sciences, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (past)

Lecturing Fellow, Department of Romance Studies, Arts and Humanities, Trinity College of Arts and Sciences, Duke University (past)

Degrees
PhD, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Romance Languages and Literatures-Italian Studies, 2014
MA, Bocconi University, Experiential Marketing, 2008
MA, Università degli Studi di Milano, Italy, Lettere Moderne, 2008
BA, Università degli Studi di Milano, Italy, Lettere, 2005