She holds a PhD from the University of Cambridge. Her research examines religious reform, death, and disease in early modern society, with a focus on lived experience, space, materiality, and the city of Venice. She has published on ephemeral print and public health, medical care in early modern Venice, and the Catholic life cycle; and she is co-editor of The Ashgate Research Companion to the Counter-Reformation (2013) and La chiesa e l’ospedale di San Lazzaro dei Mendicanti (Marcianum Press, 2015).