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I have received a PhD in Italian from Rutgers University. I currently teach English Writing at Rutgers University as Assistant Teaching Professor. In 2015, I edited Dreamscapes in Italian Cinema (FDU Press), an anthology that examines the oneiric realm in Italian film history, and I have since then published book chapters and essays on filmic representations of motherhood, mourning, and identity. In 2020, I edited The Spaces and Places of Horror (Vernon), an anthology that explores the complex horizon of landscapes in horror film culture to better understand the use that the genre makes of settings, locations, spaces, and places, be they physical, imagined, or altogether imaginary. I am currently researching a manuscript on heterotopias and horror film culture; my latest book, the first English translation of Porpora Marcasciano's Antologaia, was published in October 2023.