About
Feminist and Queer Theory in Modern Italian Literature and Cinema; Migration Studies; Sicilian Culture; Black Italy Education
- Doctorate in Modern Languages, Italian and French, Middlebury College
- MA in Italian, Minor in Film, Indiana University Bloomington
- BA from the Honors College with Honors, Italian and English Literature, Dominican University
Publications
- Divergenze in celluloide: Colore, migrazione e identità sessuale nei film gay di Ferzan Özpetek, Mimesis editore, 2016
- Pasolini’s Lasting Impressions: Death, Eros, and Literary Enterprise in the Opus of Pier Paolo Pasolini, Fairleigh Dickinson UP, 2018
- Italian Americans on Screen: Challenging the Past, Re-Theorizing the Future, Lexington Press, 2021.
Upcoming Talks and Conferences
Memberships
Italian Studies: AATI, AAIS, Canadian Society of Italian Studies
MLA, ACTFL, AAUSC
