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Education

  • BA, Comparative Literature, Cornell University
  • AM, Romance Languages and Literatures, Harvard University
  • PhD, Romance Languages and Literatures, Harvard University

Research Areas

  • modern Italian literature
  • women writers
  • theories of second language acquisition
  • teaching with technology

Publications

Textbooks:

Articles:

  • "Hyperbole in the Work of Cesare Pavese: Textual Resistance and Bodily Defiance." Italica 91.2 (2014): 184-202.
  • "Tre donne sole: Pavese's Women in Search of a Modern Identity." Quaderni d'italianistica 34.1 (2013): 153-67.

Translations:

  • "This is How My Husband, Leader of the Black Panthers, Was Arrested," (translation of "Così fu arrestato mio marito, leader del Black Panther" by Dacia Maraini), in Writing Like Breathing, Vol 3. Rossano- Kingston, RI, 2018.
  • "A Letter on Abortion," (translation of "Lettera sull'aborto" by Dacia Maraini), in Writing Like Breathing, Vol 4. Rossano -Kinsgston, RI, 2020.
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