I am an interdisciplinary Early Career Academic with specialism in Italian, Comparative Literature, Gender Studies and Visual Culture Studies. I use feminist methodologies to explore the intersections between power, self-representation, the body, and trauma in literature/art. My credentials include a PhD in Comparative Literature completed in 2020, and ten years of experience teaching a wide range of subjects (including Italian, Comparative Literature and Spanish) in HE in the UK. In 2022, I completed two residential fellowships in Italy, one at The British School at Rome and one at the Fondazione Cini in Venice. I have a keen interest in community engagement and social justice through research and art: since 2023, I co-run the participatory arts project CAMERA together with Glasgow-based artist Alex Withey. CAMERA uses trauma-informed and intersectional methodologies to engage community groups in artmaking and self-reflection through photography and writing. 

• Comparative Literature

• Critical and Feminist Theory

• Trauma Studies

• Medical Humanities

• Life-writing Studies

• Italian, English and Latin American Literature

• Art History & Visual Culture (especially Surrealism)

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• June 2025: Royal Society of Edinburgh small grant for archival and field research in Mexico City £5000

• Breakdown of funding for CAMERA:

£850 (SRSF, SMLC) awarded in May 2023
£5,530 (IAA) awarded in September 2023
£1,000 (IDEF) awarded in October 2023
£9,460 (Founders Fund for Creatives) awarded in January 2024
£430 (SRSF, SMLC) awarded in March 2024
£775 (IDEF) awarded in May 2024
Total funding raised to date: £18,045

• January-March 2022: British School at Rome, ‘Rome Award’ for a three-month visiting fellowship in Rome board and lodging + £1350
Project title: Art & Activism: Suzanne Santoro and the 1970s Feminist Avant-garde in Rome

• May-July 2022: Fondazione Cini, ‘Benno Geiger’ Fellowship for a three-month archival research period in the Vittore Branca Centre in Venice board and lodging + €3,100
Project title: Sibilla Aleramo’s Authorial Self and her “vita errabonda” in the Aleramo-Nardi Correspondence

I am happy to supervise students on any aspect covered by my research interests. I particularly welcome collaborative or practice-based PhD projects.

• Ewert, Natascha
  A Jungian exploration of the Delphic maxim ‘Know Thyself’: Healing the Autobiographical Self through the intersection of poetry, art and tarot
• Guidi, Sara
  The Soil of Desire Reevaluating second-wave Southern Italian Feminist Practices in the Present
• Liu, Yixuan
  Base Materialism and the Abject Body in Female Surrealist Artists' Works

Since 2014, I have designed, convened and delivered a broad range of courses and assessments at both undergraduate and postgraduate level in UK universities. I am an Associate Fellow of the Higher Education Academy. In 2016, I was nominated for the Teaching Excellence Awards by my students at the University of Strathclyde, in the category ‘Most enthusiastic teacher’. I am now in the process of completing PG-CAP as HEA Fellow. My teaching approach is underpinned by feminist, intersectional and trauma-informed methodologies - I strive for my classes to be inclusive, fun, and a space in which students can challenge themselves and learn new skills without feeling overwhelmed.

September 2019 – present: Lecturer in Italian at the University of Glasgow

• Honours Option: ‘Feminist Encounters in Italy: Sexuality and the Body in 20^th Century Women’s Cultural Production’ (designed and delivered by me)
• Course convenor: Italian Level 2 (Culture + Language + Year Abroad)
• Honours Option: ‘Women in Modern Italy’ (Co-taught with Prof Penelope Morris)
• Honours Option: ‘Modern Italian Poetry’ (Co-taught with Dr Eanna O’Ceallachain)
• Junior & Senior Honours Italian Oral Classes
• Honours Translation into Italian
• Beginners Italian Written and Oral classes
• MLitt in Comp Lit: Lecture-seminars ‘Feminism and Trauma’, Reading Workshop and ‘Italian Avant-Garde Feminist Art’, Transnational Constructions of Gender

I also occasionally teach Comparative Literature classes, and in the newly-launched Liberal Arts programme.

I am always keen to teach in new, interdisciplinary programmes across the University. 

PROFESSIONAL BODIES MEMBERSHIPS & OTHER ROLES

• Trustee of artist-run organisation, gallery and studios Rhubaba (since May 2025)
• Member of the People Justice Network, part of the newly launched Centre for People's Justice, a £4.1million investment by the UKRI Arts and Humanities Research Council. Partners include: the Universities of Glasgow, Sheffield, Swansea, Wrexham, Ulster and the Institute of Advanced Legal Studies London (since September 2025, invited by Prof. Nicole Bausby)
• Core Member of the Glasgow Medical Humanities Network and of the Centre for Comparative Literature and Translation, University of Glasgow
• Member of the Society for Italian Studies (SIS) [EDI Working group]
• Member of the Association for the Study of Modern Italy (ASMI)
• Member of the Centre for Gender History (CGH), University of Glasgow
• Member of the British Comparative Literature Association (BCLA)
• Member of the International Society for the Study of Surrealism (ISSS)
• Member of the Society for Latin American Studies (SLAS)

ARTIST RESIDENCIES [all through selective processes]

• March-April 2026 (4 weeks): Casa Lü Sur, Mexico City (collaborative residency to develop the next stage of CAMERA and exchange knowledge with local art groups using creative practices as activism)

• June 2024 (10 days): Fondazione Cini, Venice (with artist Alex Withey, collaborative residency for the project CAMERA)

• June 2024 (1 week): Cove Park, Scotland (with artist Alex Withey, collaborative residency for the project CAMERA)

• May 2023 (2 weeks): ‘Interdisciplinary Residency’, Hospitalfield, Scotland (with artist Alex Withey, collaborative residency for the project CAMERA)