On Necromancy and Collage: Re-Thinking the Reception of the Renaissance in Modern Italy
Italian Modernities
Stanford University, Palo Alto CA
May 26, 2022
Drama Kings, Closet Queens, and a Few Princelings: Queer Genealogies in Italian Literature
LGBTQ+ History Month Italia
Wellesley College, Wellesley MA
April 14, 2022
Genealogy as Collage: Conjuring the Past in Italian Modernism
Yale University, New Haven CT
March 3, 2022
Objects of use: Mario Schifano and (New) Materialism
Mario Schifano Study Days
Center for Italian Modern Art, New York City
October 23, 2021
Black Queer Jewish Italian Renaissance Art: A Pedagogical Problem
Invited lecture in Dr. Catherine McCormack’s seminar Art, Race, and Gender
Sotheby’s Institute of Art, London
January 28, 2021
Gluing Genealogies: Renaissance Revival as Creative Conjuring in Italian Modernism
Invited lecture within the MDRN Lecture Series
Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium
November 23, 2020
Ariosto vs. Flammarion: On the Roots of Italy’s Magical Realism
Realism, Realities, and Magical Realism (Part 1)
51st NeMLA Anniversary Convention, Boston
March 5-8, 2020
Modern Emblems: Gabriele D’Annunzio between Renaissance Imprese and Fascist Mottoes
Bryn Mawr College Colloquium in Visual Culture,
Bryn Mawr College, Bryn Mawr PA
November 20, 2019
Reviving a Cult: Suspiria
Contemporaneity and sociopolitical representation: Reflections on the classical auteur in Italian cinema
International conference of the JICMS, Rome (Italy)
June 15, 2019
Bassani and Italian Queer Fiction
Luoghi dello spirito, luoghi della scrittura: Giorgio Bassani a Ferrara, Firenze, Roma,
International Conference
International Studies Institute, Florence & Centro Studi Bassaniani, Ferrara (Italy)
June 4-5, 2019
Literary Metaphysics: Massimo Bontempelli and the Foundations of Magical Realism
Invited lecture at the Center for Italian Modern Art
CIMA, New York (NY)
March 26, 2019
Talking Animals (Clothed and Naked) in 19th Century Zooepic
Talking Animals in Modern and Contemporary Italian Literature,
50th NeMLA Anniversary Convention, Washington DC
March 21-24, 2019
Vaffan*ulo: How Italians Invented Trump Politics (1919-2019)
Europe on the Rocks, Bryn Mawr College
November 29, 2018
Lettere (e una cartolina)
Pisa e altrove: Italianisti a confronto, international workshop
Scuola Normale Superiore, Pisa (Italy)
May 25, 2018
D’Annunzio’s Revival of Baroque Imprese: Collecting and Reforging Emblems
Barocchismi: Trans-Historical and Inter-Media Emulations in Seventeenth Century Aesthetics, co-organized panel
RSA annual conference, New Orleans (LA)
March 23, 2018
Take Care of the Sounds. On Translating Italian Nonsense Verse,
Invited lecture at the Program in Translation and Intercultural Communications (Translation seminar)
Princeton University, Princeton (NJ)
March 5, 2018
Adapting an Era: the Interactive Political and Aesthetic Universe of Assassin’s Creed II
Innovations and Tensions in Italian Cinema and Media in a Global World
International conference of the JICMS, Rome (Italy)
June 10, 2017
How to Expand a Universe. The Chivalric Market of the Quattrocento and Star Wars
Chivalric Imageries, international conference (website)
Program in Italian Studies at Princeton University, Princeton (NJ)
February 25, 2017
Brava Giulia! Sfasciare il patriarcato (e il paternalismo) nella neoavanguardia italiana
I Verbovisionari: L’altra avanguardia tra sperimentazione visiva e sonora, international symposium
Scuola Normale Superiore, Pisa (Italy)
November 25, 2016
The Lion, the Emblems and the Wardrobe: Some of D’Annunzio’s Renaissance and Baroque Secrets in the Vittoriale
Invited lecture at the Department of Italian Studies (video)
New York University, New York (NY)
November 15, 2016
Ariosto and the Novecento
Ariosto After 500 Years, international symposium (website)
CUNY Graduate Center, New York (NY)
October 17, 2016
Leopardi’s Clothed Mice, Parisian Illustrated Books, and Dystopia
Epic, Darwinian, Dystopian Mice from Naples: Perspectives on Leopardi’s Paralipomeni, co-organized panel
AATI Annual Conference, Naples (Italy)
June 25, 2016
Posthuman Humanism. On Morandi’s Bottles (and Proust’s Spoons)
Giorgio Morandi Study Days
Center for Italian modern Art, New York (NY)
May 19, 2016
The Chair and the Hippogriff: Ariosto’s Immobile Journeys and the Geographic Introversion of Renaissance Italy
Travel: A Journey to Discover the Self and Others, panel
RSA annual conference, Boston (MA)
April 2, 2016
Christ, Chemistry, Curdled Cheese, and the Caravaggians: The Interplay of Art, Gastronomy, Politics, and Religion in Pasolini’s La Ricotta
Invited lecture at the Program in Italian Studies
Princeton University, Princeton (NJ)
March 28, 2016
Cheese, Christ, and the Caravaggians
Pier Paolo Pasolini. Image, Object, Sound, international conference
NYU - Casa Italiana Zerilli Marimò/Institute of Fine Arts, New York (NY)
November 14, 2015
L’Ovidio magico dei metafisici
Ovid and Contemporary Italian Literature, panel
AATI annual conference, Siena (Italy)
June 24, 2015
Passioni del Novecento: Giulio Ferroni con Alessandro Giammei
Passioni del Novecento, roundtable
Biblioteca Nazionale Centrale, Rome (Italy)
May 20, 2015
Macbeth as Mussolini in Saba’s Secret Translation
Echoing Voices: Translation Poetry in 20th Century Italy, international study day
University of Oxford, Oxford (UK)
June 18, 2014
Being Classicists after Renaissance and Romanticism: The De Chirico Brothers’ Andromeda and Psyche (through Angelica)
Tradition in Fragments: The Classical Legacy in Italian 20th Century Literature, international study day
University of Oxford, Oxford (UK)
June 19, 2014
Saba dallo stile orizzontale allo stile verticale: La stagione creativa di ‘Parole’
Lo stile: Prospettive multidisciplinari, symposium
Scuola Normale Superiore, Pisa (Italy)
May 9, 2014
Thresholds to Nowhere: Paratext as a Decryption in Metasemantic Texts
The Crypt(ic), Annual graduate student conference of the Institute for Comparative Literature and Society
Columbia University, New York (NY)
March 29, 2014
Gesta and Ceneri. Two Differed Capitoli in the Capitolo’s Modern Fortune
Capitoli, panel within Capitals
ACLA Annual meeting, New York (BY)
March 26, 2014
La poesia sarda come poesia postcoloniale in lingua italiana
AttraVersi, invited lecture
Museo delle Clarisse, Ozieri (Sardinia)
April 26, 2013
Asilo Poetico: Poesie, letture e testimonianze per Dario Villa
Asilo Poetico, night of readings and talks for Dario Villa
Libreria Shake, Milan (Italy)
February 9, 2013
Umberto Saba’s Lament: The Symptom of a Prophetical Pain from Imminent Conflagrations
Paranoia and Pain, international Conference
University of Liverpool, Liverpool (UK)
April 4, 2012