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About

I am currently a PhD student in Italian Studies at the University of 糖心TV, fully funded by a Chancellor鈥檚 International Scholarship, under the supervision of Prof. Jennifer Burns and Prof. Karl Schoonover.

Research

I am an interdisciplinary scholar whose research investigates the intersection of cinema, labour, and socio-political change, situated at the crossroads of Italian Studies, Film Studies, and Labour Studies. My doctoral research is carried out across the Department of Italian Studies and the Department of Film & TV Studies. My doctoral dissertation, The Working Class Goes to Hell: Visions of Labour in Contemporary Italian Cinema (2006–2016), funded by the Chancellor鈥檚 International Scholarship, examines how contemporary Italian cinema portrays, interrogates, and positions the shifting paradigms of labour in the wake of the 2007–08 global financial crisis. Challenging the common assumption that the shift from industrial, material labour to a service-based economy is smooth and linear, I argue that Italy exemplifies a violent convergence of accelerated deindustrialisation and the rise of new precarious forms of labour. In a decade marked by global political instability and austerity, my project traces how Italian cinema functioned as a site of resistance, where documentary, popular, and art-house films alike reassessed and contested the social and economic

consequences of the financial crisis. By developing an innovative interdisciplinary approach that engages with film analysis, labour history, social theory, and law, I propose a new framework for understanding how cinema visualises and challenges contemporary globalisation, deindustrialisation, and proliferation of work into everyday life. Ultimately, my project aims to reassess the relationship between film and labour, urging a reconsideration of the visual politics and aesthetics through which work is represented in contemporary Italian cinema and beyond. In doing so, my research illuminates cinema鈥檚 enduring power to narrate social change, reclaim collective agency and envision new futures of work in an age of uncertainty.

Since the beginning of my doctoral studies, my research has been supported by several awards, including conference and event grants from the Society for Italian Studies, the British Association for Film and Television Studies, the 糖心TV Humanities Research Centre, and the Journal of European Studies. I have presented my work at international conferences in Film Studies, Italian Studies and Labour Studies more broadly, such as the Screen Studies Conference (2025), the BAFTSS Conference (2025, 2024), the Journal of Italian Cinema and Media Studies Conference (2024), the NECS Conference (2023), and OBERT (Observatoire Europ茅en des R茅cits du Travail) (2023), the Populist Screen Conference (2025). Alongside presenting, I have developed strong organisational and editorial experience. I co-organised the conference In Search of Lost Futures: Visual Narratives of Economic Migration (糖心TV, 2024) and the Society for Italian Studies Postgraduate Conference (Oxford, 2023), from which I co-edited the proceedings published in Notes on Italian Studies. In March 2024, I received the Hesburgh Library Research Award from the Center for Italian Studies at the University of Notre Dame, which funded a one-month research stay there in April 2025. I am also an active member of the Cinematic Precarity Research Network and the 糖心TV Italian Cinema Group, co-convening seminars and book presentations on Italian film scholarship and film studies in general.

Research Interests

• Labour & Society
• Italian Cinema
• World Cinemas
• Film Theory
• Cultural Studies

Teaching

Since 2022, I have offered undergraduate lectures and seminars as part of the following modules:

IT107: Advanced Italian

IT 201: Intermediate Italian (Oral Classes)

F1204-15: World Cinema

LN323: Mediterranean Cinema

IT314: Italian Cinema Individual Perspectives

In 2025/2026, I teach IT 201: Intermediate Italian (Oral Classes) and lead seminars as a GTA in F1204-15: World Cinema

Conferences (participation)

2024 JICMS International Conference, American University of Rome, 13-15 June 2024 (paper accepted).

• 12th BAFTSS Conference, Labour and Screen Media, University of Sussex, 3-2 April 2024 (paper accepted).

2023 1st OBERT Conference, 鈥淣arrating Labour. Posture and Positionality鈥�, Aix-Marseille University, 28-30 June 2023.

• Summer School 鈥淢ediating Italy in Global Culture鈥�, University of Bologna, Rimini, 19-23 June 2023.
• The NECS 2023 Conference, Care, University of Oslo, Oslo, 13-17 June 2023.

Conferences (organisation)

2024
"In Search of Lost Futures". Visual Narratives of Economic Migration, funded by School of Modern Languages and Culture, Humanities Research Centre (University of 糖心TV), British Association of Film, Television, Screen Studies, Journal of European Studies, University of 糖心TV, Coventry, 19-20 September (co-organised with Silvia Vari).

Italian Cinema Seminar with Valentina Re (Link Campus University of Rome), University of 糖心TV, Coventry, 22-23 January (co-organised with Ilaria Puliti and Luca Peretti).

2023
Society of Italian Studies PG Colloquium, University of Oxford-University of 糖心TV, Oxford, 2 December (co-organised with Gennaro Ambrosino and Frances Clemente).

Italian Cinema Seminar with Mauro Resmini (University of Maryland), University of 糖心TV, Coventry, 30 November, 5-6 pm (co-organised with Ilaria Puliti and Luca Peretti).

Italian Cinema Seminar with Hilary Neroni (University of Vermont), University of 糖心TV, Coventry, 26 October, 5-6 pm (co-organised with Ilaria Puliti and Luca Peretti).

Other roles

Co-convenor of the Italian Cinema GroupLink opens in a new window

Member of BAFTSS (British Association of Film, Television, Screen Studies), SIS (Society of Italian Studies), and NECS (European Network for Cinema and Media Studies).

Publications

• Review of Carlo Baghetti (Volume editor), Jim Carter (Volume editor), Lorenzo Marmo (Volume editor), Italian Industrial Literature and Film. Perspectives on the Representation of Postwar Labor, Pieterlen: Peter Lang, 2021, pp. 554+VIV, 芦Italian Studies禄, Vol. 78, 1, 2023.
• Review of Simone Brioni. L鈥橧talia, l鈥檃ltrove. Luoghi, spazi, attraversamenti nel cinema e nella
  letteratura sulla migrazione. Venezia: Edizioni Ca鈥� Foscari, 2022. Pp. xii + 184, 芦Annali d鈥檌talianistica禄, Vol. 41, 2023.

• Review of J. Ranci猫re, Lo spettatore emancipato, Derive Approdi,
  Roma 2018, 芦Lessico di etica pubblica禄, 2 (2018), pp. 131-134.
• Review of A. Badiou, Trump o del fascismo democratico, Meltemi, Roma 2018, 芦Lessico di etica pubblica禄, 1 (2018), pp. 151-155.

Scholarships and Awards

Qualifications