Research & Teaching Interests
- Early modern French and Italian literature; the pastoral; ecocriticism; digital humanities; aesthetics; second language and digital pedagogy.
My research and teaching focus on the intersection between art, literature, and place. As a literary scholar and digital humanist, I'm particularly interested in harnessing the potential the digital offers both to enrich the classroom and enhance access to scholarship to a larger audience
My research explores early modern textual and visual culture through a comparative lens informed by an interdisciplinary approach. I am particularly interested in questions related to:
- readers and the reception of cultural products
- intertextual and intercultural influences and discourses
- the dichotomy between the rural and the urban and the resulting tension between what is considered "artificial" and what is conceived of as "natural"
- conventions and rules that encode behavior and aesthetics, thereby influencing receptive and productive practices
- constructions of identity and space
- digital pedagogy and scholarship
- the act of reading and the teaching of literature and culture
