Italian Studies

Giovanna graduated from the University of Bologna with a BA in Modern Italian Literature (2017) and an MA in European Literary Cultures (2020, with honors). Before joining Brown, she worked at the Spring Hill College Italy Center as an Italian language teaching assistant.

At Brown, Giovanna has served as a Teaching Assistant in the departments of Italian Studies, Modern Culture and Media, and Comparative Literature, reflecting her interdisciplinary interests.

Her dissertation, currently in progress under the supervision of Professors Massimo Riva and Laura Odello, examines intermediality as a mode of reparation in contemporary family archives, with particular attention to the work of Alina Marazzi, Costanza Quatriglio, and Lynne Sachs, among others. More broadly, Giovanna’s research engages with twentieth- and twenty-first-century Italian literature, cinema, critical theory, Italian feminism, and psychoanalysis.

Alongside her scholarly work, Giovanna explores poetry and critical fabulation. In 2023, she received the University of Oxford’s “Italian Poetry Today” prize for a cycle of poems around the theme of voice and its loss. Giovanna’s visual poetry project on her personal family archive was also recently featured in “Nazione Indiana”.