Current position
PhD candidate in Global Histories, Cultures and Policies (40th cycle) at the Department of History Cultures Civilisations. Research project in Contemporary History with the provisional title Colonial Memories. Myths, narrations and counternarrations of the empire in Portuguese culture in the second half of the 20th century (1960-1998). Supervisor: prof. Paolo Capuzzo; co-supervisor: prof. Roberto Vecchi
Education
September 2025 - Participation in the summer school Dissonant memories: geographies of migration, colonialism and trauma organized by the Memory Lab research center of the University of Bologna
November 2023 - Participation in the winter school Polvere. Lo sguardo della Storia sui conflitti contemporanei (Dust. The gaze of History on contemporary conflicts; 15-17/11/'23). A project organized by Associazione Vera Nocentini, Istituto di Studi Storici Gaetano Salvemini and Polo del '900.
July 2023 - Master's degree in Historical Sciences (University of Turin). Thesis in Contemporary History entitled School, memory and colonialism. Cultural memory of colonialism in Portuguese school textbooksi (1961-1986), supervisor prof. Daniela Adorni, co-supervisor prof. Gabriele Proglio. Final mark: 110/110 with honours, mention and dignity of press
November 2020 - Bachelor's degree in Cultures and Literatures of the Modern World (University of Turin). Dissertation in French literature entitled La Clôture by Jean Rolin and Un livre blanc by Philippe Vasset: a literary look at urban and social margins, supervisor Prof. Franca Bruera. Final mark: 110/110 with distinction
September 2019 - January 2020 - Study stay with Erasmus+ grant at Aix-Marseille Université. Faculté des arts, lettres, langues, sciences humaines
Research experience
November 2022 - February 2023: research period for master's thesis at the Biblioteca Nacional de Portugal (Lisbon)
October 2025 - ongoing: visiting student at the Instituto de Ciências Sociais of the Universidade de Lisboa (under the supervision of Dr Annarita Gori). Research for doctoral thesis
Language skills
Italian - mother tongue
Portuguese - advanced knowledge
English - advanced knowledge
French - advanced knowledge
German - basic knowledge
Affiliation
Member of SISSCO - Italian Society for the Study of Contemporary History
Member of Deina APS, an association that organizes educational workshops on history and citizenship education and memory trips to various sites of memory of Europe
Teaching activities
10/11/2023 - The cultural memory of colonialism. Case study: cultural memory in Portuguese school textbooks (1961-1986). Lecture delivered as part of the teaching ‘Europe, cultures, identities’ of the Master's Degree Course in International Sciences at the University of Turin, prof. Laura Gaffuri.
