Department of French and Italian

• Eighteenth-century Italian literature and theatre
• Tragic and dramatic theories
• Italian Romanticism
• Avantgarde theatre
• Italian American studies

My current research examines the role of women in eighteenth-century Italian dramatic production, particularly in the tragedies of Vittorio Alfieri. I am especially interested in tracking the representative capacity of tragedy as a genre with regard to women as tragedy developed in Italy in the eighteenth-century. In addition to theatre, my other research interests include Italian American studies, with a focus on the period between 1500-1850. I have taught Italian language and literature at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and presented my research at various academic conferences, including NeMLA and MLA.