She graduated in Russian Language and Literature at the
University of Bologna in 1980. Dur-ing the following years she was
awarded some fellowships and she carried out her researches in the
major Moscow libraries. In 1985 she obtained a fellowship awarded
by the Italian National Research Council (CNR) and got the D.E.A.
(Diplome d'études approfondies) at the École des Hautes Études
en Sciences Sociales (EHESS) in Paris. In 1993 she persued a Ph. D.
in History and Civilization at EHESS.
From 1998 to 2000 she tought Russian Literature at SSLMIT,
University of Bologna. In 2000 she was appointed associate
professor in Russian Language and Literature at the University of
Chieti (Pescara campus). Since 2003 she has been associate
professor at SSLMIT (University of Bologna, Forlì campus). Since
the same year she has been member of the scientific board of the
Centre for Cen-tral Eastern and Balkan Europe (CECOB). From 2004 to
2008 scientific coordinator of the linguistic area for the
Interdisciplinary Master in East European Researches and Studies
(MIREES, University of Bologna). Since 2004 member of the
scientific board of “Me-diazioni†(Online Journal of
Interdisciplinary Studies on Languages and Cultures). Since 2007
mem-ber of the board of the Doctoral School at the University of
Padua.
She attended many national and internation meetings and conferences.
2014 got the qualify of full professor. From 2017 full professor at the University of Bologna. Since 2021 retired. Adjunct professor.
Her research interests focus on the 20th century Russian
Literature, Culture and History of the Ideas, on Tolstoy's works and at the moment she has just published a book about psychoanalysis and Russian literature at the beginning of XX century.
