talks (a selection)


in December
Lavinia’s erotic reversal in 1641 lost opera Le nozze d’Enea con Lavinia (Monteverdi, librettist unknown) Durham University Centre for Classical Reception & Department of Classics and Ancient History workshop The Afterlives of the Aeneid’s Women

in October
A lover and a writer: baroque impersonations of Ovid as lasciuus auctor NYU Italian Department and Casa Italiana Zerilli Marimò conference Eros: Thinking, Feeling, Writing Love from Classical Antiquity to Early Modernity

2023
Una biblioteca della letteratura universale: Elena Ferrante & Sulpicia (with Cheikh Tidiane Gaye and Matteo Bianchi, by Stella N’Djoku) POESTATE literary festival

Translation as a form of poiesis & fragmented annotations on a 1573 edition of Castiglione's Il cortegiano (1528) American Association for Italian Studies conference

2022
Emotional extremes in Pietro Michiel’s Ovidio a Corinna and Michelangelo Torcigliani’s Corinna ad Ovidio (1640) Australian and New Zealand Association for Medieval and Early Modern Studies conference

Dedica: omaggio a Pier Paolo Pasolini (with Stella N’Djoku) POESTATE literary festival

Corinna writes back: Michelangelo Torcigliani’s Corinna ad Ovidio (1640) Australasian Society for Classical Studies conference

2020
Heroides ventriloquism of voice in seventeenth-century Italian poetry MA completion seminar, University of Melbourne

2019
Imitate da Ovidio: gendered voice remembered in Seicento poetry Pacific Rim Roman Literature Seminar

Navigazioni possibili: Ovid lost and found Australasian Centre for Italian Studies conference

Ovidian transgressions: navigating boundaries of gender and genre in Seicento poetry Australian and New Zealand Association for Medieval and Early Modern Studies conference