I am a first-year part-time doctoral student based between Brussels and Oxford. I hold a BA in Graphic Design from the Gerrit Rietvled Academie and an MA in Comparative Literature from the University of Amsterdam.

My doctoral project starts from the discrepant engagement between two post-war translingual poets, Amelia Rosselli (Paris, 1930–1996) and Kamau Brathwaite (Bridgetown, 1930–2020). It explores how the intersection of page (space, margin, and typeface) and verse (meter, rhythm, and prosody) comes to embody experiences of diaspora while casting unique forms of individuation and community. Exploring Rosselli’s trilingual, ‘motherless’ tongue and her penchant for the rhythms of the typewriter as a ‘space of escape’ alongside Brathwaite’s Sycorax Video Style, —a set of early computer fonts that highlights the submerged Creole roots of the English language—my dissertation draws a through-line from early modern debates on printing technology and vernacular (dis)unification to contemporary struggles over cultural and national identity. A key aspect of my research will involve rethinking meter, not as an abstract, idealized pattern, but as a dynamic historical discourse—a possible echo of presences and memories attuned to a historical unconscious.

Next to my DPhil, I work as a graphic designer, editor, translator and independent scholar. Recently, my focus has been on Latin elegy and epigraphy, contemporary Italian poetry (with a focus on Zanzotto and Fortini), and I’ve edited works by contemporary American poets like Lyn Hejinian and Alice Notley. Since 2020, I am an undergraduate and graduate lecturer in writing and typography, as well as a thesis tutor, at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts in Antwerp.

Recent publications:

Amelia Rosselli, Delirious Verse: A Talk on ‘Metrical Spaces’, edited and translated by Andrea di Serego Alighieri and Phil Baber, including ‘Metrical Spaces’, translated by Jennifer Scappettone, The Yellow Papers, no. 7 (Amsterdam: The Last Books, 2025).

Andrea di Serego Alighieri, "‘Diffidare il corpo far svenire di fame ogni gesto’: Tracing Andrea Zanzotto’s Poetics of Delivery", in Conglomerates: Andrea Zanzotto's Poetic Clusters, edited by Adele Bardazzi and Roberto Binetti (Oxford: Peter Lang, 2025).