I am a Junior Assistant Professor (RTDA) at the University of Torino.  I am a literary and narrative scholar, and I write about twenty-first-century U.S. literature. I am the author of Post-Postmodernist Fiction and the Rise of Digital Epitexts (OSU Press, 2023).

I've written articles about the intersection of digital paratextual practices and some of the features characterizing the poetics succeeding postmodernism which were published in journals such as Narrative, Poetics Today, Neohelicon, the European Journal of English Studies (EJES), Enthymema, and elsewhere. Other projects include the upcoming edited collection, Narrative Co-Construction: Author-Audience Interactions and Narrative Theory (OSUP, under review), that I am co-editing with Malcah Effron (MIT) and Margarida McMurry (Birmingham), and the special issue of Neohelicon on “Ephemerality Across (digital) Media” (2021), which I co-edited with Roberta Sapino (Torino). I also applied for an ERC Starting Grant with a project investigating how we conceive of and represent contemporary work in different narrative forms (novels and short stories, institutional and digital storytelling).

My educational background includes a BA (Hons.) in English and Cultural Studies from the University of Modena (Italy), an M.A. (cum laude) in English from the University of Parma (Italy), and a Ph.D. in U.S. Literature from Ca' Foscari University of Venice (Doctor Europaeus). I also studied at Cardiff University (UK) in 2007-2008, and at GSU (Atlanta, USA) in 2012. I have been a visiting scholar at OSU, Project Narrative (Columbus, USA) in 2012 and at the University of Groningen, Research Institute for the Study of Culture (NL), in 2013-2014. I held previous positions as Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Zaragoza (Juan de la Cierva—Formación and Incorporación Grants), and at at the University of Torino (Project Open Literature and Start@UniTO).

Outside of the academy, I have been publicly writing for L'Indice dei Libri del Mese with reviews of contemporary novels by writers such as Susan Choi, Dave Eggers, Louise Erdrich, Harper Lee, and Lauren Groff. 

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