Staff profile

I am a literary scholar specialising in postcolonial literatures, memory studies, critical medical humanities, queer death studies, and decolonial feminism. My research interests include literature, film and other cultural representations, which I approach using comparative and intersectional approaches and with a particular focus on the intersections of gender, history, and politics. I studied Modern Languages at the University of Venice Ca' Foscari and completed my PhD at the University of Cambridge. I also hold a MA from Sciences-Po Paris. 

My monograph, Irène Némirovsky’s Russian Influences: Tolstoy, Dostoevsky and Chekhov (Palgrave 2021), offers a first exploration of the influence of Russian literature – and specifically, Tolstoy, Dostoevsky and Chekhov – on the work of Russian-born French-language writer Irène Némirovsky. I have published several articles and book chapters, and I have guest edited two special issues and two edited volumes, the most recent of which is Violence, Care, Cure: Self/Perceptions within the Medical Encounter (with Clio Nicastro, Routledge 2025).

I am UKRI Fellow (Horizon Europe Guarantee) at the Institute for Medical Humanities since April 2024, and member of The Narrative Practices Lab. More information on my interdisciplinary project From 'Small Stories' to 'Communities of Care' With/In Narratives of Illness and Death can be found on The Platform's website.