I am a second-year doctoral student at New College, Oxford. My DPhil project is generously funded by the Clarendon Fund, the Faculty of Medieval and Modern Languages, and New College. I hold an MA in Cultural, Intellectual, and Visual History from the Warburg Institute, and a BA in Musicology from King's College London. 

My main disciplinary interests are philosophical anthropology, phenomenology, and the history of emotions. My topical interests include mysticism, courtly love, Franciscan culture, and Renaissance humanism. 

Through my doctoral research, I seek to shed light on the sociolinguistic phenomenon of intersubjectivity as a prime cultural motor of high medieval culture. Engaging in a comparative reading of Occitan and Old French courtly lyric, coeval monastic meditations, and cultural products of early Franciscan spirituality, I propose that these diverse sources were united by a peculiar rhetorical purpose: that of unifying communities by working on and through the individual. The discourse underlying these sources was self-consciously grounded on the principle that social cohesion could not be achieved through a collectivist language, but should be rather built upon the promotion and the regulation of individual agency. I believe that this principle was fundamentally predicated upon a critical awareness of the gap between language and experience. Through my analysis of this gap, I intend to provide a contribution not only to the intellectual historiography of the High Middle Ages, but also to the current debates in anthropology and linguistics. 

Outside of academia, I am a singer of Renaissance and Baroque music. I am currently working as a Deputy Lay Clerk at the Choir of New College, Oxford. I have worked as a soloist and as a member of various choral institutions across Italy, the Vatican, and the UK. 

Departmental Service: Medieval Convenor, Italian Research Seminar, University of Oxford (2024-2025)

Prizes and Awards: Clarendon Scholarship (Oxford, 2023-2026); Convocation Trust Bursary for high academic achievement (University of London, 2021); Purcell Prize (best degree result in Musicology, King's College London, 2020); Sambrooke Exhibition Prize (highest average result in Musicology, King's College London, 2019).