She completed her PhD in Italian Studies at the University of Toronto with a thesis on Lodovico Domenichi’s La nobiltà delle donne. Her research appeared in various scholarly journals, including Renaissance and Reformation, Quaderni d’italianistica, Confraternitas, and Studi rinascimentali. She has won several teaching awards, such as the Clarke Thomson Award for Excellence in Sessional Teaching (Brock University), the Ontario Undergraduate Student Alliance Teaching Excellence Award, the Course Instructor Award in Italian (University of Toronto), and the Teaching Assistants’ Training Program’s Teaching Excellence Award (University of Toronto). Her areas of interest are early modern literature and culture, literary defences of women, women’s epistolary writing, language acquisition, and technology enhanced learning.