Degrees/Institutions:

• B.A., English Literature, Knox College
• Master's Degree, Italian Literature, UCLA
•  CPhil, Italian Literature, UCLA.

Interests:

• Italian Literature and Culture of the Twentieth Century
• Modernism and the Avant-Garde
•  Renaissance Studies
• Italian Cinema
• Italian Language
• Technology-Assisted Learning.

Teaching experience:

• I have taught surveys of early modern Italian culture and of contemporary Italian literature and cinema, including a comparative course on French and Italian cinema of the interwar period, as well as over twenty language courses at different levels of the Italian program.

Grants and Awards:

• Dissertation Year Fellowship
• Center for European and Russian Studies Dissertation Fellowship
• Istituto Italiano di Cultura Scholarship
• Summer Research Mentorship Fellowship.

Papers and Conferences:

• "When the Walls Speak: Madness and Maternal Sacrifice in Paola Masino's Monte Ignoso", American Association for Italian Studies Conference, Philadelphia, April 2001.
• "Online Testing with Web CT, Southern California Association for Language Assessment Research", 2000 Symposium on Computer-Based and Computer-Adaptive Language Testing, Los Angeles, May 2000.
• "Laughter and Carnival: The Character of Angiolina in Svevo's Senilità", American Association for Italian Studies Conference, Chicago, April 1998.
• "Shifting Perspectives: Representations of Judith throughout the Renaissance and the Baroque",  Congresso dell'Associazione Internazionale per lo Studio della Lingua e della Letteratura Italiana, Los Angeles, October 1997.