The elegant 19th-century Villa Mirafiori of the University "La Sapienza" in Rome was the alma mater for my BA in English and French language and literature. In those years, I developed an interest in the fictional potential of language varieties and the challenges they represent for translators. I completed my postgraduate education in the UK, first conducting research at the University of Reading, a bursary took me to the stimulating University of Leeds. There I was awarded my doctorate in 2007, with a thesis investigating the influence of creative translation on Italo Calvino's style and reflections on the evolution of the Italian language. I joined the School of Modern Languages and Cultures at Durham in September 2006 and worked there until 2014. 

I joined the Centre for Translation Studies at University College London in September 2014.

Having worked as a free-lance translator since 2001, I continue to enjoy taking up any opportunity of translating from French and English into Italian, as well as translating 17th-century Italian manuscripts into English.