I am a PhD candidate in Comparative Literature with an Italian specialization at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York, where I have taught as an Adjunct Instructor at several campuses, including The City College, Hunter College, Baruch College and College of Staten Island. Within CUNY, I have designed and taught courses in Italian language, early modern literature, and contemporary Italian culture at undergraduate level.

Outside CUNY, I have taught Italian language and culture at Fashion Institute of Technology (SUNY) and The New School, developing pedagogical approaches that integrate visual and verbal media, gaming, and text-based tasks to foster experiential and critical engagement with Italian language and culture.

My research focuses on early modern Italian literature, particularly on protofeminist thought, female authorship, and the intersections of gender, theology, and social critique in convent writing. My work on Arcangela Tarabotti and examines how women negotiated questions of intellectual and spiritual autonomy within the constraints of patriarchal and ecclesiastical systems.

I am currently exploring the reception and reinterpretation of early modern women’s texts within modern feminist and translation theory. Beyond the early modern period, my teaching and research also extend to Dante Studies, Media Studies, and Gender Studies, analyzing how cultural forms mediate identity, power, and literary production.