Education
Ph.D. Italian & Comparative Literature, Columbia University
2023
Dissertation: Dante, Historian of Religious Orders
Advisor: Teodolinda Barolini
Italian Department & Institute for Comparative Literature and Society
Campbell Prize Winner
Brittan Family Fellowship, Helen and Howard R. Marraro Prize, Provost's Diversity Fellow
M.Phil. Italian & Comparative Literature, Columbia University
Committee: Teodolinda Barolini (Italian), Neslihan Senocak (History), Pier Mattia Tommasino (Italian)
Fields: Dante and religious institutions, comparative anti-fraternal satire, Petrarch & the medieval Mediterranean
2019
M.A. Italian, Columbia University
2017
Seminars on 13th-century lyric, Dante, Petrarch, and Boccaccio with Teodolinda Barolini.
Coursework on all eras of Italian literature including Renaissance Epic (Jo Ann Cavallo), Microhistory (Pier Mattia Tommasino), Mediterranean Studies (Kostantina Zanou), and Neorealism (Elizabeth Leake).
Comparative and interdisciplinary work in adjacent fields including Comparative Literature (Brent Edwards), History (Neslihan Senocak) and English (Eleanor Johnson).
A.B. French & Italian, summa cum laude Princeton University
2016
Senior Thesis: The Poetics of Pilgrimage in Dante's Commedia
Advisor: Simone Marchesi
Phi Beta Kappa, Dante Prize, Gruppo Esponenti Thesis Prize, Joseph Strayer Thesis Prize
Certificates in Medieval Studies and Humanistic Studies