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Chair & Associate Professor, Italian
Film Studies
Cultural Studies
Popular Culture
Cultural History
Comparative Literature
Most of my studies and research interests revolve around late 19th-century narrative (British, Russian and Italian) — particularly popular narrative — and its intersections with contemporary popular culture.
“The Portrait of a Girl: A Reading of Last Tango in Paris.” Italica (2007): 410-421.
“Unquiet Resurrection: De Marchi’s Crisis Novels.” Proceedings of the Hawaii International Conference on Arts and Humanities (2006): 1451-1471.
“Travesties of Risorgimento in Maria Rosa Cutrufelli’s La briganta.” Risorgimento in Modern Italian Culture: Revisiting the 19th-Century Past in History, Narrative, and Cinema. Ed. Norma Bouchard. Madison: Farleigh Dickinson UP, 2005. 133-148.
Provost Innovation Fund, Merrimack College, 2016.
Ciejek Fellowship for Humanistic Research and Study in the Liberal Arts, Merrimack College, 2006-07.
Lorraine K. Lawton Award for Best Paper Presented, Purdue University, 2007.
Research Creative and Achievement Conference returns to highlight research conducted by Merrimack College students.
