Research Interests: Medieval Poetics; Dante and the Stilnovisti; Troubadour Lyric Poetry; Ovid and his Reception; the Transmission of Greek Texts in the Middle Ages; the Concept of Eros; Neoplatonism; St. Augustine; Psychoanalysis; 20th and 21st-century Philosophy (Agamben, Bataille, Merleau-Ponty).

Languages: English, Italian, Latin, Ancient Greek, Occitan.