She holds a Laurea in English Language and Literature from the University of Bologna, and is currently an A.B.D in the Ph.D. program of Comparative Literature with concentration in Italian Literature at the City University of New York.
Her fields of interests are 19th and 20th Century Italian Narrative, Women’s Studies and Autobiographies, and Foreign Language Education.
She is working on her dissertation on Clara Sereni, a contemporary Italian writer.
She has taught Italian Language courses at Queens College and was granted a graduate teaching fellowship to work at York College. She is now a Lecturer in Italian at Wellesley College and Tufts University.
Publications
Translation of Carole Collier Frick’s “Hats and Headwear in Renaissance Florence” as “Cappelli e Copricapo nella Firenze del Rinascimento”. Forthcoming, Winter 2006 in “Fashion Theory”, Meltemi Editore.