Associate Professor, Italian
Film Studies
Cultural Studies
Popular Culture
Cultural History
Comparative Literature
Most of my studies and research interests revolve around late 19th-century narrative (British, Russian and Italian) — particularly popular narrative — and its intersections with contemporary popular culture.
“The Portrait of a Girl: A Reading of Last Tango in Paris.” Italica (2007): 410-421.
“Unquiet Resurrection: De Marchi’s Crisis Novels.” Proceedings of the Hawaii International Conference on Arts and Humanities (2006): 1451-1471.
“Travesties of Risorgimento in Maria Rosa Cutrufelli’s La briganta.” Risorgimento in Modern Italian Culture: Revisiting the 19th-Century Past in History, Narrative, and Cinema. Ed. Norma Bouchard. Madison: Farleigh Dickinson UP, 2005. 133-148.
Provost Innovation Fund, Merrimack College, 2016.
Ciejek Fellowship for Humanistic Research and Study in the Liberal Arts, Merrimack College, 2006-07.
Lorraine K. Lawton Award for Best Paper Presented, Purdue University, 2007.
Sam Barresi ’24 founded Let’s Innovate during his sophomore year and it has already been recognized as one of the top student organizations at Merrimack College.
