My research focuses on Renaissance and early modern literature and culture, particularly the macaronic, pastoral and lyric genres, as well as comedy, heroic and mock-heroic poetry. My interests include literary memory and genealogy, comedy as a shaping force of the Italian literary tradition, the relationship between 'high' literature and popular culture, and the interplay of philology and criticism.
Research areas:
- Renaissance and early modern literature and culture, with emphases on humanism, epic, comedy, macaronic and pastoral.
Research Interests
- second language acquisition; foreign language pedagogy; computer-assisted language learning; French phonetics
Expertise:
- Italy
- Literature
- Renaissance
