I completed my PhD in Italian Studies at the University of Toronto. My thesis, “Women, Gender and Innovation in Lodovico Domenichi's La nobiltà delle donne”, analysed Domenichi’s dialogue on the nobility of women in light of its contribution to the debate surrounding women in the sixteenth century and as a reflection of his involvement with the wider cultural world of contemporary literature.
My areas of interest are early modern literature and culture, literary defences of women, women's writing, language acquisition, and technology enhanced language learning.
Education
Ph.D., Department of Italian Studies, University of Toronto (2012)
B.A. (Honours), English and Italian, Western University of Timisoara, Romania (2003)
I am currently participating in two collaborative research projects funded by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council:
Equality and Superiority in Renaissance and Early Modern Pro-Woman Treatises, Insight Grant 2014-19 (with prof. Marguerite Deslauriers and prof. Andrew Piper, McGill University)
Virtue and Political Possibility in Renaissance Feminism, Insight Development Grant 2014-16 (with prof. Marguerite Deslauriers, McGill University)
ITAL 200, Intensive Italian
ITAL 201, Introductory Italian I
ITAL 202, Introductory Italian II
ITAL 301, Advanced Grammar and Composition I
ITAL 302, Advanced Grammar and Composition II
ITAL 305, Communication Strategies and Oral Communication
ITAL 308, Italian for Business
ITAL 398D, Introduction to Italian Translation I
ITAL 398E, Introduction to Italian Translation II
ITAL 422, Petrarch and Boccaccio
ITAL 427, Italian Humanism and the Renaissance
ITAL 434, The Epic Tradition in Italy