Since I arrived at the Australian National University in July 2024, I have been teaching and/or coordinating all stages of Latin (from Introductory to Advanced), as well as cordinating, teaching and/or co-teaching a variety of classical civilisation courses (e.g., "Remembering and Forgetting in Imperial Greece and Rome", CLAS3100; "Life, Love and Loss in Ancient Greece and Rome", CLAS3002; "Rome: History, Culture, and Society", CLAS1005). I am the author of Seeking the Mothers in Ovid's Heroides (Cornell University Press, 2024) and the co-editor of Body and Medicine in Latin Poetry (De Gruyter, 2026), which arises from my research network on "Body and Medicine in Latin Poetry": https://bodyandmedicinelatin.weebly.com/. My publications include several articles and book chapters (published on top-ranked journals and presses) on classical and medieval Latin literature.

After having completed my two degrees (BA and MA) at the University of Trento and gained some work experience in Italy, I moved to Durham, where I completed my PhD in Classics in July 2021. Globetrotter, wisdom seeker, explorer, I spent some time in Freiburg as an Erasmus student during my BA, at Columbia University in New York during my MA, and at Harvard University as a Visiting Fellow. Before starting work at ANU, I was an Alexander von Humboldt Research Fellow at Kiel University and the University of Hamburg (2022-24).
 

My main research focus on Latin verse combines philological rigour in attention to the detail of the texts, with contemporary theoretical and interdisciplinary approaches to antiquity (gender; posthumanism; environmental and medical humanities; legal theory). As I see 'antiquity' as a fluid concept and think that the margins of the discipline must be expanded to include (supposedly) less canonical texts, I am also the author of a critical edition of a Medieval collection of fables in Latin ("Il Romulus della Recensio Gallicana). My new research project focuses on interactions between disease and environmental conditions in ancient Roman poetry.

A daughter, a sister, almost a worshipper of Sappho, I have combined my work with my personal history by co-organising a panel on Sappho at the 13 CCC (Celtic Conference in Classics) in Lyon (July 2022): http://www.celticconferenceinclassics.org/index.php/next-conference. I am now finalising the publication of the conference papers as an edited volume.

• Classical and Medieval Latin Literature
• Latin Elegy
• Roman Drama
• Gender Studies
• Ecocriticism
• Ancient Medicine
• Medical Humanities
• Reception Studies