Education
2012-15
PhD (French)
– University of Cambridge
2011-12
MPhil (European Literature and Culture)
– University of Cambridge
2007-11
MA Hons (French and Italian)
– University of Edinburgh
Career
2022-26
Junior Assistant Professor (Geography)
– University of Bologna
2020-21
Research Fellow (Comparative Literature)
– Ca' Foscari University, Venice
2018-20
Vice-Chancellor's Fellow (French)
– University of Bristol
2017-18
Teaching Fellow (French)
– Durham University
2016-17
Teaching Fellow (French)
– University of Southampton
Grants/Awards
2025
Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions Global Fellowship: €309,153
– European Commission, Brussels
2023
Knowledge Frontiers Follow-on: £49,851
– British Academy, London
(with P. Merchant, I. Peša, S. Schleper, L. Steeds and N. Thomas)
2021
UK-Netherlands Knowledge Frontiers: £3976
– British Academy, London
(with B. Ewing, N. Thomas, M. Gasparin, M. Leach, P. Merchant, J. Oomen, M. Petersmann, C. Price, R. Squire, C. Sterling and L. Verburgt)
Professional Standing
2023>
Contributor to 3 working groups
– Association of Italian Geographers, Rome; Social Sciences and Humanities for Transformation and Climate Resilience, Lisbon
2018-25
Visiting researcher at 3 institutions
– School of Advanced Study, London; University of Edinburgh; University of Western Australia, Perth
2016-25
Reviewer of 55 articles, 4 edited books and 3 monographs
– ACME; Australian Journal of French Studies; Bloomsbury Academic, London; Cambridge University Press; Catholic University of the Sacred Heart, Milan; CounterText; Dix-neuf; Ecocene; Ecozon@; English Literature; Enthymema; Environment and Planning E; Études littéraires; French Studies; French Studies Bulletin; Green Letters; Humanities; Irish Journal of French Studies; Italian Studies; Journal of Interdisciplinary History of Ideas; Journal of Romance Studies; L'analisi linguistica e letteraria; Lagoonscapes; Landscape Research; liquid blackness; Liverpool University Press; Meta; Nottingham French Studies; Peter Lang, Oxford; Revue Balzac; Revue électronique de littérature française; Rivista di studi italiani; Rivista geografica italiana; Rocky Mountain Review of Language and Literature; Routledge, London; Status quaestionis; Storicamente; Studies in the Novel; Textes et contextes; The Italianist; The Translator; Venice University Press
2016-25
Invitee for 49 talks/keynotes
– Ca' Foscari University, Venice; Cardiff University; Catholic University of the Sacred Heart, Milan; Durham University; European University Institute, Florence; French Institute, London; Lancaster University; McGill University, Montreal; New York University; Pomona College, Los Angeles; Rome 3 University; Sapienza University of Rome; School of Advanced Study, London; Sorbonne Nouvelle University, Paris; University College Cork; University College London; University of Angers; University of Aosta Valley; University of Bremen; University of Bristol; University of Cambridge; University of Edinburgh; University of Ferrara; University of Helsinki; University of Hull; University of New England, Sydney; University of Oslo; University of Paris; University of St Gallen; University of Sydney; University of Toronto; Vassar College, Poughkeepsie
2015-25
Assessor for 5 recruitment/admission processes
– Downing College, Cambridge; University of Bologna; University of Bristol; University of Eastern Piedmont, Vercelli; University of Pau
2013-25
Participant in 38 conferences
– American Association for Italian Studies; Art Association of Australia and New Zealand; Association for the Study of Literature and Environment; Association for the Study of Literature and Environment in the United Kingdom and Ireland; Association for the Study of Modern and Contemporary France; Australian Society for French Studies; British Comparative Literature Association; European Association for the Study of Literature, Culture and Environment; European Consortium for Humanities Institutes and Centres; Interdisciplinary Nineteenth-Century Studies; International Auto/Biography Association Asia-Pacific; Irish Humanities Alliance; Modern Language Association of America; Nineteenth-Century French Studies; Society for French Studies; Society for Geographical Studies; Society of Dix-Neuviémistes; United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization World Water Assessment Programme; Women in French
2019-24
Treasurer for 2 societies
– European Society of Comparative Literature; Society of Dix-Neuviémistes
2021-23
Consultant for 2 establishments
– Economia&Ecologia, Bologna; Querini Stampalia Foundation, Venice
2017-23
Reviewer of 8 bids totalling €2,214,093/C$182,113
– Fund for Scientific Research, Brussels; Irish Research Council, Dublin; Katholieke Universiteit Leuven; Ministry of Universities and Research, Rome; National Research Agency, Paris; Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council, Ottawa
2017-22
Fellow of 2 associations
– Higher Education Academy, York (FHEA); Royal Geographical Society, London (FRGS)
