I am a proud native New Yorker though I’ve been in Michigan longer than I would have imagined, first as a graduate student in Ann Arbor at the University of Michigan, and then as a faculty member at Michigan State University in East Lansing. Torino, the majestic first capital of Italy and regional capital of Piemonte, which lies at the foot of the Alps, dusted in the vineyards of le langhe, fragrant with chestnuts, chocolate, and coffee, is my second home, or perhaps first, in matters of the heart.

I have many interests, and as a result, my work is highly interdisciplinary. At MSU, I am jointly appointed as Associate Professor in the Department of English and the Department of Romance and Classical Studies. Both my research and teaching concern theater, performance studies, modern literature, film, and gender, and I teach and publish in both English and Italian. 

As I continue to pursue my research in Italian theater and performance traditions, my work is increasingly grounded in feminist thought, particularly borne from the Milan Bookstore Collective and Diotima. Related to conversations in my English department and broadly in the US, in addition to discussions on migration in Europe and Italy specifically, I also think a lot about where critical race theory and Italian feminism overlap and build on each other in supportive ways.