I am an assistant professor of Italian Studies at Yale University. I specialize in both modern and early modern literature and art, working on trans-historical and interdisciplinary topics at the crossway of textual and visual studies, delusions of genealogy and novelty, classicism and experimentalism. I am interested in queering concepts such as tradition, masculinity, and originality. Among other things, I am writing a book about Ludovico Ariosto’s legacy in the Machine Age, from the birth of Futurism to the end of fascism. I was trained as a literary historian in Rome, where I grew up and went to college at La Sapienza. During my doctoral studies at Scuola Normale Superiore, I won a Borsa di Scambio at New York University, where I taught for a semester in the Department of Italian Studies. Before joining the faculty of the Department of Italian Studies at Yale, I was an assistant professor at Bryn Mawr College. Before that, I was a Cotsen Fellow in the Society of Fellows in the Liberal Arts at Princeton University, where I taught in the Department of French and Italian and helped administrating the Program in Italian Studies. I also taught as a volunteer and directed the Humanities curriculum in the Prison Teaching Initiative. I am a co-founder of the Cosmopolitan Italies Collective.