Prior Academic Positions: Powys Roberts Research Fellow in Modern Languages, St Hugh's College, University of Oxford; Visiting Assistant Professor, Program in Cultures, Civilizations, and Ideas, Bilkent University 

Prior Education: B.A. in Philosophy and Italian, University of Notre Dame, 2006

Interests: Literature and philosophy, comparative/global modernisms, the avant-gardes (and neo-avant-garde), Italian literature and artistic culture, Arthur Schopenhauer, Henri Bergson, Luigi Pirandello, Futurism, Gabriele d'Annunzio, TS Eliot, continental aesthetics, European theater and early cinema, translation studies and translation practice, Platonism and Neoplatonism, Italian Renaissance thought

Dissertation title: “The Aesthetics of Ambivalence: Pirandello, Schopenhauer, and the Transformation of the European Social Imaginary”

Committee: Thomas Pavel (Chair), Rebecca West (Chair), David Wellbery, Armando Maggi.