Who I am

I’m a PhD candidate in French Studies at the CUNY Graduate Center. My dissertation looks at the paradox of Italianism and Italophobia in sixteenth-century France. I work on early modern epistolary culture, queenship, and women’s writing, combining archival research with digital humanities methods.

My digital work uses tools like metadata structuring, text encoding, and data visualization. I created Digital Accessibility of Catherine de’ Medici’s Correspondence, an open-access archive that lets users search and explore the Queen Mother’s letters by recipient, gender, date, and other metadata. Before that, I developed Lettres de Catherine de Médicis (1564–1566), a prototype database built during my time at Université Gustave Eiffel.

I hold a Master’s in Research from Université Gustave Eiffel and a BA in Foreign Languages and Literatures from the University of Udine. I’ve presented my research in Europe and the U.S., and I teach French and Italian at Baruch College, CUNY.

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