About

I am is Senior Lecturing Fellow and Cultural Advisor in the Romance Studies Department at Duke University. My primary area of research is the interaction between literature, philosophy, and digital media in modern and contemporary culture, with a particular interest in animal studies. My recent publications take an eco-critical approach to Italian contemporary poetry and cinema, examining poets such as Ungaretti, Luzi, Volponi and Ferrari, and filmmakers such as Sorrentino, Garrone, Crialese and Rohrwacher.
In my language classes, my aim is to expand students’ knowledge of Italian language as well as their understanding of the relationships between language and culture by utilizing the perspective of various disciplines such as anthropology, animal studies, documentary studies, history, literature, visual art, and economics.