I am an assistant professor (Ramón y Cajal fellow) at the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona.  I am a literary and narrative scholar, and I write (mostly) about twenty-first-century U.S. literature. I am the author of Post-Postmodernist Fiction and the Rise of Digital Epitexts (OSU Press, 2023). 

I've written articles about the intersection of digital paratextual practices and some of the features characterizing the poetics succeeding postmodernism that were published in journals such as Narrative, Poetics Today, Neohelicon, the European Journal of English Studies (EJES), Enthymema, and elsewhere. Other projects include the upcoming edited collection, Narrative Co-Construction: An Interdisciplinary Approach to Authors’ and Audience’s Contextualized Role(s) in Narrative Theory (OSUP, under review), that I am co-editing with Malcah Effron (MIT) and Margarida McMurry (Birmingham), and the special issue of Neohelicon on “Ephemerality Across (digital) Media” (2021), which I co-edited with Roberta Sapino (Torino).

My educational background includes a BA (Hons.) in English and Cultural Studies from the University of Modena (Italy), an M.A. (cum laude) in English from the University of Parma (Italy), and a Ph.D. in U.S. Literature from Ca' Foscari University of Venice (Doctor Europaeus). I also studied at Cardiff University (UK) in 2007-2008, and at GSU (Atlanta, USA) in 2012. I have been a visiting scholar at OSU, Project Narrative (Columbus, USA) in 2012 and at the University of Groningen, Research Institute for the Study of Culture (NL), in 2013-2014. I held previous positions as Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Zaragoza (Juan de la Cierva—Formación and Incorporación Grants), and at the University of Torino.

Outside of the academy, I have been publicly writing for L'Indice dei Libri del Mese with reviews of contemporary novels by writers such as Lauren Groff, Susan Choi, R. O. Kwon, Dave Eggers, Louise Erdrich, and Miranda July.

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