Stipendiary Lecturer in Italian
BA in Italian Literature: University of Turin
MA in Modern Philology: Borromeo College, University of Pavia
MSt. in Modern Languages: Magdalen College, University of Oxford
DPhil in Medieval and Modern Languages: Magdalen College, University of Oxford
My academic education also includes two years of medical training at the University of Turin.
Italian language and literature, especially modern and contemporary Italian literature (FHS Papers VIII, XI and XII), and Prelims courses on the History of the Sonnet, Eugenio Montale, Giuseppe Ungaretti and Modern Italian Narrative.
I also teach Essay Writing (FHS Paper I), Italian Prose Composition, i.e. translation into the foreign language (FHS Paper IIB), and the Italian Pre-Sessional Course to ab initio students.
Modern and Contemporary Italian Poetry and Narrative; Comparative Literature and Criticism; Diaspora Studies; Translation Studies; and Medical Humanities.
I have published articles at the intersection between literature and philosophy (Silone), philology and aesthetics (Biamonti), and on poetry and translation. My doctoral thesis – entitled ‘The Diasporic Canon. American Anthologies of Contemporary Italian Poetry, 1945-2015’ – focuses on the reception and translation of the Italian poetic canon in the United States. This project was fully-funded by an Arts & Humanities Research Council Scholarship (AHRC) and an Oxford Scatcherd European Scholarship.
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