Conferences
Organised conferences
2-5 June 2022
CAIS, Sant'Anna Institute, Sorrento.
[co-organised with Céline Powell] panel. 'La maternità nella cultura italiana dal Rinascimento a oggi. Al di là degli stereotipi / Motherhood in Italian Culture from the Renaissance to Present Day. Beyond Stereotypes'.
23 May 2022
Italian Research Seminar, University of Warwick (online)
[co-organised with Andrea Brondino, Federica Coluzzi, Kerry Gibbons, Luca Peretti, Silvia Vari and Emiliano Zappalà] 'Notes and Scribbles: Into the World of Academic Journals for Italian Studies'
20-22 April 2022
SIS Biennial, University of Warwick.
The whole event was co-organised with the department of Italian Studies, University of Warwick.
[co-organised with Sara Boezio and Mattia Petricola] panel. 'Onirismo, visioni e generi dell’immaginario in Italia dall’Ottocento ai giorni nostri' (roundtable participants: Sara Boezio, Daniele Comberiati, Silvia Contarini, Stefano Lazzarin, Simona Micali, Mattia Petricola)
18 February 2022
SIS Postgraduate Colloquium (online)
[co-organised with Andrea Brondino] 'Really Fantastic! Intertwinements, Exchanges, and Discordances Between Realism and The Fantastic in Italian Culture'. Keynote speakers: Prof. Francesca Billia
31 January 2022
Italian Research Seminar , University of Warwick (online)
'Death and the birth of a nation: Cemeteries in Nineteenth-Century Italy' with Dr Hannah Malone (University of Groningen). Respondent: Prof. Fabio Camilletti.
23-25 September 2021
XXIV Congresso Nazionale dell’Associazione degli Italianisti ADI "Letteratura e Potere/Poteri", Catania (online).
[co-organised with Beatrice Pecchiari] Panel entitled 'Il potere del passato e l’affermazione del presente. Forme e declinazioni letterarie dell’identità nazionale in Italia tra Sette e Novecento'.
4-5 & 11-12 June 2021
CAIS Conference (online)
[co-organised with Mattia Petricola] Panel entitled: '"La Morte! La Morte!" Mapping Italian Death Cultures from the Late Eighteenth Century until Today' (11th-12th June 2021).
22 May 2021
Doctoral Fellowship Competition Award from the Humanities Research Centre (University of Warwick)
HRC Interdisciplinary Conference: The Remains of the Body: Legacy and Cultural Memory of Bodies in World Cultures (online)
22 January 2021
School of Modern Languages and Cultures Postgraduate Symposium Feelings and Emotions across Languages and Cultures funded by SMLC, Researcher Development (Doctoral College) and CADRE and co-organised with Emanuele Podda (online).
Conference contributions
21-23 October 2022
Mother's Milk. Breastfeeding from Metaphor to Practice, University of New Hampshire and online
Panel entitled: 'Quality Milk and Nursing Bodies in Luigi Pirandello's Novelle per un anno'
27-28 September 2021
'Women in Sardinia: Creativity and Self-Expression', University of Cambridge (online)
Paper entitled: 'Balie, bambinaie e baby-sitter. Lavoro femminile e folklore in Sardegna e oltre nella letteratura per l’infanzia di Bianca Pitzorno'
25 September 2021
Annual Society for Pirandello Studies Conference 2021 'In Search of an Author: New Perspectives on Pirandello' (online)
Paper entitled: 'Wet nurses’ stories. Rediscovering the role and life of wet nurses through Pirandello’s Novelle per un anno'.
28-30 June 2021
Convegno AIPI, Geneva. Panel 8a. 'Viaggiare, scoprire, conoscere. Partire per descrivere: il viaggio scientifico nella letteratura, nel giornalismo e nelle arti'. (online)
Paper entitled: 'Il viaggio oltremondano nella letteratura italiana del Settecento. Il caso di Alfonso Varano' (29th June 2021).
28 May - 6 June 2021
AAIS Conference (online). Panel entitled: 'Forging the myth: Dante in the long nineteenth century' Sponsored by Bibliotheca Dantesca: Journal of Dante Studies (Center for Italian Studies, University of Pennsylvania)
Paper entitled: '"Orecchie rose e labbra mozze" and Other Bodily Suffering in Alfonso Varano. Dantean Reminiscences in Eighteenth-century Sepulchral Poetry' (5th June 2021).
10-11 September 2020
SIS Themed Conference 'Visions of Italy', University of Kent (online)
Paper entitled: 'Messina and the Plague. The Descent to Hell in Varano’s Visioni sacre e morali'
10-11 January 2020
'In Extremis: the Limits of Life, Death and Consciousness in the Long Nineteenth Century', University College Dublin.
Paper entitled: 'Late Eighteenth-Century Sepulchral Literature: An Archaeology of the Italian Gothic'.
12-14 September 2019
XXIII Congresso Nazionale Associazione degli Italianisti (ADI), 'Letteratura e scienze', Università di Pisa.
Paper entitled '"Lo spettro, che parve arte maga". Il fenomeno della Fata Morgana e l'aurora boreale nelle Visioni di Alfonso Varano'.
24 May 2019
SMLC Postgraduate Symposium 'Intermediality', University of Warwick.
Paper entitled: 'From sepulchral poetry to the Gothic popular novel: fashion and obsession in long nineteenth-century Italy'.
9 February 2019
Constructions of Love and the Emotion of Intimacy, 1750-1850 (HRC one-day interdisciplinary conference), University of Warwick.
Paper entitled: ‘The polite intimacy in Italian cultural salons: the love correspondence between Ugo Foscolo and Isabella Teotochi Albrizzi as a case study’.
16 November 2018
SIS Postgraduate colloquium 'Body Narratives', University of Saint Andrews.
Presentation of my research project.