About Me

I am a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Department of Literature, Area Studies and European Languages (ILOS) conducting the two-year project “That Sinking Feeling”: Ecocritical Approach to Land Subsidence in Italy’s Po Delta region (Earthsea). I received his PhD in Comparative Literature from Yale University and were previously adjunct professor at Vanderbilt University in Florence and at the University of Virginia in Siena (CET).

My main research interests lie at the intersection between the environmental humanities, film studies, and affect theory. My previous project focused on the reinterpretation, challenge, and ‘provincialization’ of Italian director Pier Paolo Pasolini’s work by Global South directors and visual artists.

My current project investigates the ways in which contemporary literature, cinema, and media have actively shaped and contributed to past and present debates over land subsidence in the Po River delta, its causes, and the dynamic transformation of the terrain.