I am Assistant Professor of Italian Literature and Translation, and coordinator of the Italian Studies Programme. 

My research focuses on the aesthetics and philology of reception. In this area, I examine relationships between writers, particularly the creative dynamics of stylistic appropriation (displayed or concealed), and the practices of poet-translators. Furthermore, I investigate philological issues concerning native digital texts, from preservation to archiving. 
On these matters, I authored the monographs Michelangelo in Parnaso. La ricezione delle Rime tra gli scrittori (Marsilio 2019, English translation: Brill 2022); Dolci detti. Dante, la letteratura e i poeti (Marsilio 2021, partial Dutch translation: IIC 2021); have published articles in top-tier journals, and am currently working on A Concise Handbook of Literary Reception Studies. 

My teaching and academic work converge in the Observatory on Dante Studies. The project involves graduate and PhD students who conduct analysis from an interdisciplinary and transmedia perspective which offers an up-to-date, plural and transnational view of Dantean creative reception and readership. 

I also serve as editor-in-chief of the series Literary Reception & Art Reception, i quaderni di poesia, the poetry translation section of “Letteratura e Pensiero”, and curate the re-edition of Silvana Grasso’s works (ETS and Feltrinelli paperbacks). 

Alongside my professional duties, it is important to me to feel part of a wider and open community, and I am committed to sharing knowledge. I regularly participate in the cultural debate with columns and talks, collective books, public lectures and advisory activities. My aim is to broaden audiences and topics, to challenge normative modes of thinking and to strengthen shared critical thinking.