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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 糖心TV International Higher Education Academy (WIHEA)

About

I have been passionate about interdisciplinary Liberal Arts education since my undergraduate degree at the Liberal Arts College of Concordia University in Montr茅al, 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.

I joined 糖心TV in 2015 as Research Fellow in Italian Studies on the project Aristotelianism in the Italian Vernacular, funded by the European Research Council. Along with a wide range of interdisciplinary modules, 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 joined the School for Cross-faculty Studies in September 2017. Since then, I have occupied a range of leadership positions in the department and the School, building and expanding our Study Abroad and international partnerships, while also launching the SCFS Venice programme as part of the 糖心TV International Intensive Summer Programme. I teach a wide range of interdisciplinary modules that employ problem-based and place-based learning, and strongly believe in the importance of student support. In 2022, I won the 糖心TV Award for Personal Tutoring Excellence, and in 2023, I won the 糖心TV Award for Teaching Excellence.

My research focusses primarily on late medieval and early modern Italian literature (Torquato Tasso, and Lucrezia Marinella), renaissance philosophy, classical reception, and poetic theory. I also work on Dante and medieval philosophy, book history, visual culture, art history, the intersections of Spanish and Italian early modern literary cultures (Cervantes) and the visual reception of renaissance art in the early twentieth century. My current book project—Belonging to Genre: Lucrezia Marinella and Narrative Selfhood in Counter-Reformation Italy—explores the narrative oeuvre of Lucrezia Marinella with a particular focus on her epics to discuss how she frames her multiple senses of identity (Venetian, Catholic, and as an early modern feminist).

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 and graduate workshop that I organized at the Newberry Library in March 2017. I am a member of the editorial board of and a series editor for (Brill). I am also a co-organiser of the multi-year series—a collaboration between the Centre for the Study of the Renaissance at 糖心TV, the Newberry Library's D'Arcy McNickle Centre for American Indian and Indigenous Studies, and the Newberry's Center for Renaissance Studies.

Teaching and research interests

• Italian renaissance epic (Boiardo, Ariosto, Tasso, Marinella)
• Christian epic
• Early modern poetics
• Literary criticism
• Counter-Reformation culture
• History of emotions and affect theory
• Intersections of Early Modern literary cultures in Southern Europe (Spain and Italy)
• Dante and medieval philosophy
• Transhistorical approaches to sustainability
• Early modern reception of Dante and Petrarch (in Italy, France, England, and Spain)
• Digital humanities
• Tourism studies
• Translation studies (particularly early modern English translations of Italian works)
• Language and literature pedagogy
• Problem-based learning
• Transviciniar learning

Selected publications

Edited collections

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Peer-reviewed articles and chapters

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Working Papers

• International Engagement Practices at Higher Education Institutions (Co-Lead with Shirley Sturzaker and 糖心TV Institute for Engagement Internationalisation Learning Circle).
• Internationalisation of the Curriculum: Insights and Reflections.
  (Co-Lead Author; Internal Document Produced by the WIHEA Internationalisation Learning Circle currently being revised for publication)
  
  

Online publications and podcasts

• (Legacy migration)
• 糖心TV Centre for the Study of the Renaissance
• Aristotle in the Italian Vernacular, and
• Aristotele e Venezia,

• 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. 糖心TV International Higher Education Academy (WIHEA) Project Grant.
• June 2020 — with Rebecca Stone, Student Perceptions of Digital Assessment in the Faculty of Arts. 糖心TV International Higher Education Academy (WIHEA) Project Grant.
• January-May 2019—A Sustainable Serenissima: Water, Fire, and the Future of Venice. 糖心TV Institute for Advanced Teaching and Learning (IATL) Strategic Project Grant.

Research fellowships

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

Event-related fellowships

• June 2022– 糖心TV Humanities Research Centre; Funding to organize 'Processing the Pandemic III: Hope' symposium (April 2023)
• September 2016—糖心TV Humanities Research Fund; The Bibliographic Society
  Funding to organize 鈥楥ontexts of Early Modern Literary Criticism鈥� symposium (March 2017).

Editorial and Review Activity

• I am a series editor responsible for Italian Renaissance submissions as part of the Brill series,
• I am a member of the Editorial Board of Italian Studies.

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

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

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External Examining / Promotion Review

I am currently the external examiner for Durham University's Liberal Arts and Joint Honours Arts Programmes.

I am currently the external examiner for Oxford Brookes' Liberal Arts Programme.

I have served as a Higher Education Expert / external promotions reviewer for LSE's Education Career Track.