I did my undergraduate and MA degrees at the University of Utrecht (Netherlands), before joining Warwick University (UK) to pursue a postgraduate degree in Italian. In 2010 I concluded my thesis on the public memory of an Italian student movement of the late 1970s, entitled 'Narrating the trauma of the anni di piombo: The negotiation of a public memory of the 1977 student protests in Bologna (1977-2007)'.

My PhD research focused on memory debates, commemorative rituals and memory sites related to a drammatic incident that occured in an Italian university town in the late 1970s, and on the negotiation of this incident - by a variety of memory agents - over the past 30 years. A monograph on this topic is currently being prepared for publication in the Memory Studies Series at Palgrave Macmillan.

After I concluded my PhD, I held a 6-month Early Career Fellowship at the Warwick Institute of Advanced Study (IAS), where I started working on oral history. In February 2011 I organized an interdisciplinary seminar on oral history and the 1968 protests in Europe, and in June I founded - together with Dr. Angela Davis from the History Department - the Warwick Oral History Network, which is financed by the IAS. Currently I am an Associate Fellow at the IAS.

UPCOMING EVENTS:

Memory Wars in Italy. 1799-2012
24 May 2012, 10am-5pm
UCL School of Slavonic and East European Studies, London

Digital Memories Seminar
10 July 2012, 2-5.30pm
Centre for Media and Culture Research, London Southbank University

Guest lecture: Remediating Resistance
Date TBC
Free University of Bruxelles, Belgium

Until recently I also held a non-stipendiary Visiting Fellowship at the Centre for the Study of Cultural Memory (CCM), located in the Institute of Germanic & Romance Studies (IGRS) of the University of London. Here I wrote an article about generational memories of protest and contention in contemporary Italy, and I did an oral history project financed by the British Academy. In this period I also wrote an article on digital and visual memories in relation to the 1977 protests in Bologna, the topic of a seminar I am currently organizing together with Prof. Anna Reading of the Western University of Sydney. The seminar will be held at the Centre for Media and Culture Research, London South Bank University, on 10 July 2012.

Since January 2009 I am senior editorial assistant for the Sage journal of Memory Studies. In 2010 I was also appointed associate editor for the journal Modern Italy (Taylor & Francis).

I have peer reviewed for the journals ​Memory Studies, Behavioral Sciences of Terrorism and Political Aggression, the Czech Sociological Review and for ​Transcation Press ​(Memory and Narrative Series). I'm also a freelance author for the Sites of Memories blog and for TraMe (Centro di studi interdisciplinare su memorie e traumi culturali). FInally, I write short stories based on my experiences as a foreigner in Italy, for the Italian cultural online journal LetterMagazine.