Research

I completed my MA in History, Archival Studies and Librarianship (Università degli Studi di Genova) with a thesis on Thomas More’s Utopia, Italian humanism and Cristopher Columbus’ and Amerigo Vespucci’s travels. 

During my Ph.D. at the University of Birmingham (M4C funded), I researched how English people learned Italian during the Tudor period. 

Other areas of interests are early modern ideas of progress and globalisation, the Renaissance art of memory and emblemata.

Teaching

I taught Italian and English in United Kingdom, Australia, Honduras and Spain. 

I currently teach: 

Year I. Reading comprehension and Guided Essay/ Listening comprehension and Speaking

Year II. Language Skills/ Grammar

Year IV. Finalists Essay/ Oral

Publications

‘Reworking the Tabula Cebetis. A Classical Moral Dialogue for Early Modern Linguistic Practices’, in Smith, R. & Doff, S. (eds), Grounded Histories of Language Teaching 16th–20th Centuries (Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press, (to be published in 2024)).

Book Review of Richard Smith and Tim Giesler, Innovation in Language Learning and Teaching: Historical Perspectives (Amsterdam/ Philadelphia: John Benjamins, 2023), in Language & History (forthcoming).