I’m a researcher, educator, and curator, currently completing my PhD in English at the Graduate Center, CUNY and serving as a Digital Humanities Specialist at The City College of New York. My research and teaching interests include popular and unpopular culture, transnational American Studies, and digital humanities. My public-facing collaborative digital projects include the East Bay Punk Digital Archive, “The Lung Block: A New York City Slum and Its Forgotten Italian Immigrant Community” exhibit, and the CUNY Distance Learning Archive, among other digital publication and archival recovery endeavors. In addition to my dissertation—a study of the politics and aesthetics of the East Bay punk scene—I’m currently working on a book on cultural, architectural, and public health policy responses to immigration, poverty, and disease on the Lower East Side at the turn of the 20th century.
I’m also a co-editor-in-chief and founding editor of JAm It! (Journal of American Studies in Italy), and have served as co-chair of the Graduate Forum of the Italian Association for American Studies (AISNA) from 2015 to 2021.
