Italian Consulate General of Philadelphia Merit Award, Summer 2012
Provost Award, Saint Joseph’s University, Spring 2012
“Ministero degli Affari Esteri” (Italian Ministry Of Foreign Affairs) Grant, Spring 2012, 2011, 2010
Summer Research Grant, Saint Joseph’s University, Summer 2004
Research Merit Award, Saint Joseph’s University, Fall 2003.
“From Academy to Stage: Improvisation, Gender, National Character” in The Formation of a National Audience in Italy, 1750–1890: Readers and Spectators of Italian Culture. Gabriella Romani and Jennifer Burns eds.. New York: Rowman & Littlefield, 2017
“Prospero Lambertini and the Accademia degli Arcadi (1695-1708)” in Benedict XIV and the Enlightenment: Art, Science and Spirituality. Christopher Johns, Rebecca Messbarger and Philip Gavitt eds. Toronto: Toronto University Press, 2016
“Poetry and National Identity: Corinne, Corilla and the idea of Italy” invited book chapter in Germaine de Staël and the Politics of Mediation: Challenges to History and Culture, edited by Karyna Szmurlo. Oxford: Voltaire Foundation, 2011. 213-232.
“Pastoral Fable, Tragedy and History: the Modernist Dimension of Crescimbeni's Elvio” in Saggi di Letteratura italiana. Edited by Patrizia Guida, Lecce: PensaMultimedia, 2011. 191-206.
“Monsters of Talent: Fame and Reputation of Women Poets in Arcadia” invited contribution in Italy’s Eighteenth-Century: Gender and Culture in the Age of the Grand Tour, Stanford University Press, 2009, 303-330.
“Women Poets of Arcadia,” “Caterina Percoto” “Cristina di Belgioioso” and “Neera” invited contributions in Encyclopedia of Italian Literature edited by Gaetana Marrone Puglia and Paolo Puppo, New York: Routledge, 2006.
“Women Poets and Improvisers: Cultural Assumptions and Literary Values in Arcadia,” Studies in Eighteenth–Century Culture, Volume 32, 2003. pages 69-92.
“Corilla Olimpica improvvisatrice: Toward a Reappraisal of Her Life and Work” Corilla Olimpica e la poesia del settecento. Atti del Convegno internazionale, edited by Moreno Fabbri, Pistoia, Maschietto e Musolino, 2002. pages 155-172.
“Anna Banti’s Artemisia: Reinscribing the Female Gaze in Italian Literature and Art,” West Virginia University Philological Paper, Fall 2001. pages 71-83.
“Traces of a Sisterhood: Corilla Olimpica as Corinne's Unacknowledged Alter Ego,” The Novel’s Seductions: Staël’s Corinne in Critical Inquiry, Edited by Karyna Szmurlo, Lewisburg, PA, Bucknell University Press, 1999, pages 165-184.
Entries on “Enlightenment” and “Querelles des femmes” Feminist Encyclopedia of Italian Literature, edited by Rinaldina Russel, Westport, CT, Greenwood Press, 1997, pages 77-82 & 273-275.
“The Poetics of Seconda Arcadia and Literary History,” NEMLA Italian Studies, Volume 19 (1995), pages 51-68.
“Cristina di Belgioioso's Orient,” NEMLA Italian Studies, Volume 15 (1993), pages 129-150.
Seventeenth- and Eighteenth-Century Intellectual History
Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century Italian Literature
