• PhD Italian; minor in Comparative Literature, Indiana University, Bloomington IN. December 2012.
• MA  Italian, Indiana University, Bloomington IN, May 2008.
• Laurea (BA) Modern, Foreign Languages and Literatures, Università degli Studi di Firenze, Florence, Italy. November 1990.
  
  

The relationship between literature and cinema, Italian cinema and its links with other national cinemas, connections across European cultures (especially English, French and Italian), masculinity studies, the teaching of culture in the language classroom, and diversity in courses of Italian language and culture.

Edited Volumes
Italian Masculinities - NeMLA Italian Studies XLII (2020) edited by Emanuela Pecchioli and Simona Wright.

Articles
“Introduction.” Italian Masculinities - NeMLA Italian Studies XLII (2020) edited by Emanuela Pecchioli and Simona Wright (written with Simona Wright).

“I vitelloni all’estero. L’influenza del film di Fellini sul cinema internazionale” (I vitelloni Abroad. The Influence of Fellini’s Film on International Cinema). Federico Fellini. Riprese, riletture, (re)visioni. Atti della North American Conference on the Italian Master of Cinema. A cura di Paola Bernardini, Joanne Granata, Teresa Lobalsamo, Alberto Zambenedetti. Firenze: Franco Cesati Editore, 2016.

“L’influenza delle teorie di Antonio Francesco Riccoboni su Paradoxe sur le comédien di Denis Diderot” (The Influence of Antonio Francesco Riccoboni’s Theories on Denis Diderot’s Paradoxe sur le comédien). Sul confine. Interferenze letterarie franco-italiane. A cura di K. E. Bättig von Wittelsbach. Firenze: Franco Cesati Editore, 2015.

Reviews
Frank Burke, Marguerite Waller and Marita Gubareva, eds. A Companion to Federico Fellini. Hoboken, NJ: Wiley-Blackwell, 2020. Annali d’Italianistica 39 (2021) (forthcoming).

Sergio Rigoletto. Le norme traviate. Saggi sul genere e sulla sessualità nel cinema e nella televisione italiana. Milano: Meltemi, 2020. Italian Masculinities - NeMLA Italian Studies XLII (2020).

Marco Vichi. L’anno dei misteri. Un’indagine del commissario Bordelli. Milano: Editore Guanda, 2019. Italian Quarterly 57 (2020).

Ryan Calabretta-Sajder. Divergenze in celluloide. Colore, migrazione e identità nei film gay di Ferzan Özpetek. Milano, Udine: Mimesis Edizioni, 2016. Forum Italicum 53.3 (Fall 2019).

• ITA 101-102 Elementary Italian 1st and 2nd Semesters
• ITA 104 Transitional Elementary Italian
• ITA 151-152 Intermediate Italian 1st and 2nd Semesters
• ITA 151 BUS Intermediate Italian for Business 1st Semester
• ITA 207 Italian Conversation & Composition
• ITA 322 Advanced Communication for Students of Italian
• ITA 403 The Works of Dante
• ITA 425 Italian Novella
• ITA 427 Masterpieces of Modern Italian Literature
• RLL 198 UB Seminar for Transfer Students