Languages: Italian, English.
Research Interests: 17th, 18th, and early 19th-century Italian literature and culture, Baroque novel and poetry, Counter-reform sacred oratory, libertine fiction and ideology, antique printed editions and early modern manuscripts.
Education: Ph.D., Italian, Brown University.
Departments: Department of French and Italian (departmental profile here).
Selected Publications:
Books
Il piacere di leggere. Tipologie della lettura privata nel Settecento (in progress)
Francesco Pona. L’ozio lecito della scrittura (2013)
Sentimento della morte dal Barocco al declino dei Lumi (2000)
The Americas in Italian Literature and Culture: 1700-1825 (1997)
Il dilemma della Grande Atlantide. Le Americhe nella letteratura italiana del Settecento e del primo Ottocento (1990)