Italian Studies

Irene graduated cum laude from the University of Turin with a BA in Lettere (2020) and a MA in Italian literature, philology, and linguistics (2022). In her BA thesis, Irene innovatively argued that the Pierid song in Ovid's Metamorphoses is actually a parodic rewriting of a famous Virgil passage. Her MA thesis «Colà dove gioir s'insempra». Apprendimento e trasmissione di conoscenza nel Paradiso di Dante obtained press dignity and is currently published on ministerial website Pubblitesi. Irene's interests range from Dante to intertextuality, literature and power, questione della lingua and the history of the Italian language, ancient Latin poetry, English and Italian Modernism and more. Aside from her Dante research, she is currently exploring Italian novels written during the Fascist era, along with feminist readings of Elena Ferrante and other contemporary female writers.