Qualifications

• Ph.D.: Italian Studies (New York University, 2015)
• M.A.: Italian Studies (New York University, 2010)
• B.A.: Western Society and Culture: Liberal Arts College (Concordia University, Montreal, 2008)
• Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Academy (SFHEA)
• Fellow of the Warwick International Higher Education Academy (WIHEA)

About

I joined the School for Cross-faculty Studies in September 2017. I joined Warwick in 2015 as Research Fellow in Italian Studies on the project Aristotelianism in the Italian Vernacular, funded by the European Research Council. I have taught all levels of Italian language and culture from the middle ages to present day, along with classical Greco-Roman epic poetry, medieval and renaissance French literature, early modern English epic, and renaissance Latin. I have also designed an introductory course to the Digital Humanities.

I have been passionate about interdisciplinary Liberal Arts education since my undergraduate degree at the Liberal Arts College of Concordia University in Montréal, Canada, where I was born and raised. During the course of this degree, I developed an interest in early modern Spanish and Italian literatures. In 2008, I moved to New York where I studied Italian at New York University, obtaining my M.A. in 2010 and my Ph.D. in 2015 with a dissertation project on changing definitions of heroism in sixteenth-century Latin and vernacular Christian epics written in Italy.

My research focusses primarily on early modern Italian literature (Jacopo Sannazaro and Torquato Tasso), philosophy, and poetic theory. I also work on Dante and medieval philosophy, book history, and the visual reception of renaissance art in the early twentieth century. In 2020, I published an edited collection of essays on new perspectives in the study of early modern poetics—The Reception of Aristotle's Poetics in the Italian Renaissance and Beyond—which emerges from a conference and graduate workshop that I organized at the Newberry Library in March 2017. Please see the Project Page for this work. I am a member of the editorial board of Poetics before Modernity and a series editor for Sources in Early Poetics (Brill).

Teaching and research interests

• Italian renaissance epic (Boiardo, Ariosto, Tasso)
• Christian epic
• Early modern poetics
• Counter-Reformation culture
• History of emotions and affect theory
• Dante and medieval philosophy
• Early modern reception of Dante and Petrarch (in Italy, France, England, and Spain)
• Digital humanities
• Translation studies (particularly early modern English translations of Italian works)
• Language and literature pedagogy
• Problem-based learning
• Transviciniar learning

Selected publications

Edited collections

• Editor, The Reception of Aristotle's Poetics in the Italian Renaissance and Beyond: New Directions in Criticism. London: Bloomsbury, 2020. (paperback reprint 2021)

Peer-reviewed articles and chapters

• —, and Anne Boemler, 'Tears in Heaven: Tracing the Contours of a Pan-European Transconfessional Genre,' Humanities 11.1 (2022): 4.
• ‘‘Defying Gravity:' Prose Epic and Heroic Style in Lucrezia Marinella's 1602 Vita di Maria Vergine,' Classical Receptions Journal 13.1 (2021): 107-125.Link opens in a new window
• ‘I Write Sins, Not Tragedies: Manuscript Translations of Hamartia in Late Sixteenth-Century Italy,’ in Acquisition Through Translation: The Rise of European Vernaculars, edited by Alessandra Petrina, 55-72. Turnhout, Brepols: 2020.Link opens in a new window

• ‘Soul to Squeeze: Castelvetro and Early Modern Emotional History’ in The Reception of Aristotle's Poetics in the Italian Renaissance and Beyond, edited by Bryan Brazeau, 201-226. London: Bloomsbury, 2020.
• ‘Building a Mystery: Giorgio De Chirico and Italian Renaissance Painting,’ The Italianist
  39.1 (2019): 20-43.Link opens in a new window
• ‘My Own Worst Enemy: Translating Hamartia in Sixteenth-Century Italy,’ Renaissance and Reformation 41.4 (2018): 9-42.Link opens in a new window
• ‘London Calling: John Harington’s Exegetical Domestication of Ariosto in Late Sixteenth- Century England,’ History of European Ideas 42.5 (Reading Publics in Renaissance Europe, 2016): 640-650.
• 'Emotional Rescue: Heroic Chastity and Devotional Practice in Iacopo Sannazaro’s De partu Virginis,' California Italian Studies 5(1) (The Sacred in Italian Culture, 2015): 225-246.
• 'Who Wants to Live Forever? Overcoming Poetic Immortality in Torquato Tasso's Gerusalemme conquistata,' MLN 129, No.1 (Italian Issue, 2014): 42-61.
• 'I fight auctoritas, auctoritas always wins: Siger of Brabant, Paradiso X and Dante’s Textual Authority,' in Dante and Heterodoxy: The Temptation of Radical Thought in the 13th century, ed. by Maria Luisa Ardizzone (Cambridge: Cambridge Scholars Press, 2014), 106-125.

In press (various stages)

• 'Highway to Heaven? Dissimulating Christian Leadership in Torquato Tasso's Gerusalemme Liberata' (under review)

• ‘Take Me Down to the Paradise City: An Ecological Approach to Paradise Spaces in Renaissance Epic’ (under review).

Online publications and podcasts

• 'Schools of Athens: Liberal Arts and Global Challenges', GLOBUS (Feb. 2018)
• Vernacular Aristotelianism in the Renaissance Database 2.0 (Legacy migration)
• Warwick Centre for the Study of the Renaissance Podcast
• Aristotle in the Italian Vernacular, Project Website and Podcast
• Aristotele e Venezia, Exhibition Website

• Guide to Medieval and Early Modern Research in Italian Studies

Fellowships, awards, and grants

Teaching fellowships

• July 2020 — Liberal Arts Digital Bridging Materials For Rising Second-Year Students. Warwick International Higher Education Academy (WIHEA) Project Grant.
• June 2020 — with Rebecca Stone, Student Perceptions of Digital Assessment in the Faculty of Arts. Warwick International Higher Education Academy (WIHEA) Project Grant.
• January-May 2019—A Sustainable Serenissima: Water, Fire, and the Future of Venice. Warwick Institute for Advanced Teaching and Learning (IATL) Strategic Project Grant.

Research fellowships

• September 2019—Warwick-Newberry Early Career Fellowship
  For research at the Newberry Library in Chicago.
• August 2016—Warwick-Newberry Transatlantic Fellowship
  For research at the Newberry Library in Chicago
• June 2016—Warwick Humanities Research Centre Summer Fellowship
  For archival research in Florence and Milan, Italy
• June 2015—FRQSC* Postdoctoral Research Startup Grant
  _{*Fonds de Recherche du Québec, Société et la Culture} 

Event-related fellowships

• September 2016—Warwick Humanities Research Fund; The Bibliographic Society
  Funding to organize ‘Contexts of Early Modern Literary Criticism’ symposium (March 2017).

Editorial and Review Activity

I am a series editor responsible for Italian Renaissance submissions as part of the Brill series, Sources in Early Poetics

I have served as a reviewer for the following journals/presses:

• Italian Culture
• Italian Studies
• The Italianist
• Philological Quarterly
• Renaissance Quarterly
• Bristol University Press