EDUCATION
1985, Degree of Laurea in Modern Languages
University of Rome “La Sapienza”
1992, Ph.D. Degree in African Literature School of Oriental and African Studies,
University of London
LANGUAGES
Italian and English (bilingual), French, Spanish, Gikuyu
EMPLOYMENT
1993-1995 Assistant Professor Department of Foreign Languages
Institute of Language Studies, University of Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
1995-1999 Lecturer
Department of English, University of Zimbabwe, Zimbabwe
1999-2002 Senior Lecturer, School for Languages and Arts
Potchefstroom University, South Africa
2002-2008 Associate Professor, Università degli Studi del Molise,
Faculty of Economics, Campobasso, Italy
2008-(present) Associate Professor, LUMSA University,
GEPLI Department, Lumsa University, Rome, Italy
OTHER ACTIVITIES
2009-2011 Director, LUMSA University Language Centre
2011-2014 Coordinator, LUMSA University Undergraduate Degree Course in Languages
2016-(present) Member of the Staff-Student Joined Committee (Commissione Paritetica) L11 L12
2016-(present) Erasmus Coordinator L12
2017-2019 Member of the Language Centre (CLIC) Steering Committee
2018-2021 Erasmus Coordinator L36
MAIN FIELDS OF RESEARCH
Postcolonial Literature, Comparative Literature, Translation Studies
AWARDS
2004, best critical study of Dino Buzzati for the article "The Border, the Desert, the Enemy: Dino Buzzati’s Il deserto dei Tartari and J.M. Coetzee’s Waiting for the Barbarians" awarded by the International Association Dino Buzzati
MEMBERSHIPS
European Society for the Study of English (ESSE)
European Society of Comparative Literature (ESCL)
Associazione Internazionale Dino Buzzati
Associazione Italiana di Anglistica (AIA)
Oxford English Dictionary Researchers Advisory Group