20th-21st Century French and Francohpone Literature; 20th-21st Century Italian Literature; Comparative Literature and World Literature; Womens and Gender Studies; Multilingualism and Translation Studies; Sociology of Literature and Sociocritique; Literature and Politics/Literature and History Travel Writing; WWI and WWII Studies; Film Studies

I am Associate Professor of French and Comparative Literature in the School of Modern Languages and Applied Linguistics at UL. Prior to joining UL, I was Assistant Professor of French and Italian in the European Studies Department at San Diego State University (US), and Andrew W. Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow in the Département des littératures de langue française, de traduction et de création at McGill University (Canada). I hold a PhD from Johns Hopkins University and Master's degrees in Comparative Literature from Université Paris III Sorbonne Nouvelle and Université Paris VIII Vincennes-Saint-Denis.  My work has appeared in a variety of European and North American journals, including Modern Language Notes, Translation Studies, Tangence and Studies in Twentieth and; Twenty-First Century Literature. My first book (2020, Classiques Garnier) explores the relationship between literature and politics in France and Italy during the 1950s and 1960s, focusing on writers Claude Simon and Carlo Emilio Gadda and using a sociocritical and transnational approach. 

I am currently working on two research projects: 1) on women mediators and feminist translation in the second half of the 20th century; 2) on literary representations of gender-based and domestic violence in contemporary literature. I welcome expressions of interest for MA and PhD projects in any of my fields of expertise.