- Assegnista di Ricerca, Dipartimento di Lingue e Letterature Straniere Moderne, University of Bologna - 1999/2002 (four-year research project sponsored by the University of Bologna on "Comparative Studies, the arts and the media").

- Ph.D., 1999 University of Bologna (Cultural Studies. Name of the program: "Literatures and Cultures of English Speaking Countries; Focus on "Canadian Literature and Culture"; Ph.D. Thesis on 'Marshall McLuhan as a Man of Letters'. Focus on the relation between media, the humanities and culture).

- Laurea in Lingue e Letterature Straniere Moderne, 1992 University of Bologna

- Winner for the year 2000 of the Annual Book Award, Italian Association for Canadian Studies (Category: "Young Scholars"), for Marshall McLuhan. Tra arte letteratura e media, Milano: Bruno Mondadori, 2000 (Marshall McLuhan: literature, art and media)

- "OIP Fellow", Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island, US, 1998 (Project: "Marshall McLuhan: literature, art and media").

- "Six-month Post-Doctoral Fellowship", 1997-98, ICCS Canada (Project: "Marshall McLuhan as a Man of Letters")

- "Visiting scholar", Robarts Centre for Canadian Studies - York University, Toronto, June-November 1997 (Project: "Marshall McLuhan as a Man of Letters)

- "Visiting scholar", Robarts Centre for Canadian Studies - York University, Toronto, October-November 1999. (Project: "Wyndham Lewis: ideology, philosophy and the mass society")

- "Visiting scholar", Robarts Centre for Canadian Studies - York University, Toronto, April - June 2000, (Project: "Wyndham Lewis: ideology, philosophy and the mass society")

a) Books:

- Marshall McLuhan tra letteratura, arte e media, Bruno Mondadori, Milano, 2000, pp.192

- Prove di un saggio critico. Saggi di Ford Madox Ford, (with Vita Fortunati) Alinea, Firenze, 2001, pp. 327

- Interpreting/Translating Modernism. A Comparative Perspective, (ed), University of Bologna, Cotepra (European Commission - COTEPRA: European Thematic Network Project), Bologna, Compositori Grafiche, 2001, pp. 208

- Ford Madox Ford and The Republic of Letters, (with Vita Fortunati), Bologna, Clueb, 2002, pp.221

b) Essays:

- "Ford Madox Ford editorialista: la funzione dell'arte e dell'artista nella Repubblica Internazionale delle Lettere" - Atti dell'Accademia delle Scienze Anno 1996, Bologna 1998, pp.1-21

- "Ford Madox Ford and the Arts: a (Proto)Modernist Polyptych, Englishes, 6 anno 2°, 1998 pp. 54-71

- "Marshall McLuhan's Critical Writing", in Prospettive di Cultura Canadese, Atti del Seminario Internazionale di Studi Canadesi, Monopoli 12-14/06/1998, a cura di G. Dotoli, pp.199-211

- "Vivisecting Society: Joycean Strategies in Marshall McLuhan's The Mechanical Bride", Prospero, Rivista di Culture Anglo-Germaniche,.VI-MIM, pp. 87-104

- "Crash by J.G. Ballard and D. Cronenberg: Prosthetic Bodies and Collective Psychopathologies", in Greenblatt S. - Fortunati V. (eds), Textus XIII - Special Issue, 2000, pp. 173-194

- "Douglas Coupland's Microserfs: corporate dreams of unconscious e-believers", in Il Canada e le Culture della Globalizzazione, A cura di Alfredo Rizzardi e Giovanni Dotoli, Congresso internazionale del 20° anniversario, Atti - Bologna 8-11 settembre 1999, Bari. Edizioni Schena, 2001, pp. 275-291

- "Real Cities and Virtual Communities: Ford Madox Ford and the International Republic of Letters", in Interpreting/Translating European Modernism. A Comparative Approach, edited by Elena Lamberti, Bologna, Compositori Grafiche, 2001, pp. 43-60

- "Reading Ford through Marshall McLuhan: The Fifth Queen in the Light of the New Media", in Modernism and the Individual Talent / Moderne und besondere Begabung, Re-Canonizing Ford Madox Ford (Hueffer) / Zur Re-Kanonisierung von Ford Madox Ford (Hüffer), Symposium Münster June/Juni 1999, Jörg W. Rademacher Ed., Münster-Hamburg-London, Lit Verlag, Anglistick/Amerikanistik, 6, 2002, pp.45-53

- 'Scientific Historian' versus 'Social Historian: Ford madox Ford's Historic Sense, in Ford Madox Ford and 'The Republic of Letters', edited by Vita Fortunati, Elena Lamberti, Bologna, CLUEB, 2002, pp. 30-40"

- "Ezra Pound's Guide to Kulchur: la citazione tra sperimentazione modernista e costruzione del 'Nuovo Sapere", in Leimotiv, on-line review, N. 2, 2002, Seminario Citazione (Autunno 2002) [www.ledonline.it/leitmotiv]

- "Ford Madox Ford and Ernest Hemingway in the 1924 Paris Literary Arena", in Ford Madox Ford's Modernity, edited by Max Saunders and Robert Hampson, Macmillan Press, London, pp. 1-13 (in press)

- "Integral Awarness: Marshall McLuhan as a Man of Letters" - Proceedings of "The Legacy of McLuhan: A Symposium", Lance Strate editor, Fordham University Press (in press)

- "Marshall McLuhan and the Modernist Writers' Legacy", proceedings of the International Symposium on Marshall McLuhan, edited by David Carlson, (in press)

- "From linear to acoustic space: modernist heuristics and the new media-induced environment", in MODERNISM, A Volume in the International Comparative Association (ICLA) series. Comparative History of Literatures in European Languages (CHLEL), edited by Vivian Liska and Astradur Eysteinsson, John Benjamins: Amsterdam and Philadelphia (in press)

c) Book reviews

- "Carla Comellini's D.H. Lawrence. A Study on Mutual and Cross References and Interferences", Bologna, CLUEB, 1995 - Book Review on D.H. Lawrence Review, Volume 27, Number 1, 1997 and 1998, pp.116-119

- Il Centauro Anglo-Americano. Atti del XVII Convegno dell'Associazione Italiana di Anglistica - Bologna, 16-18 febbraio 1995, Culture di Lingua Inglese a Confronto, A cura di Raffaella Baccolini, Carla Comellini e Vita Fortunati, Clueb, Bologna, 1998 per: AIA Newsletter, a cura di M. Gotti, pp.1-3

- "Convegno Internazionale su Ford Madox Ford", per Bollettino '900, Bollettino elettronico del Seminario sul '900, n° se-undici-1997, pp. 83-85

- "Ford Madox Ford: un esempio emblematico della politica culturale delle riviste d'avanguardia del primo novecento", L. Petroni, V. Fortunati, E. Lamberti. Accademia Delle Scienze dell'istituto di Bologna - Corsi e Seminari a cura del Prof. L. Petroni, Sala Ulisse, 19 aprile 1996.

- "Ford Madox Ford and Ernest Hemingway in the 1924 Paris Literary Arena", Ford Madox Ford - Ford Madox Ford International Conference - 15-16 November 1996, University of London, Centre for English Studies

- "Ford's portrait by Janice Biala", Ford Madox Ford: Painting and Writing, a Day of Celebration, University of London, Centre for English Studies, London, 10.01.1998

- "Integral Awarness: Marshall McLuhan as a Man of Letters", The Legacy of McLuhan: A Symposium, Fordham University - New York, March 27-28, 1998.

- "La critica letteraria di Marshall McLuhan", Round Table on Canadian Literature organised by the Centro di Studi sulle Culture, le Letterature e la Arti Canadesi, University of Bologna, Bologna, 12 maggio 1998

- "Marshall McLuhan's Critical Writing", International Symposium, Italian Association for Canadian Studies, Monopoli (Bari), 12-14/06/1998

- Speaker at the Round Table on Blurring Borders in the Tewntieth Century Biography and Fiction: Questions of Genre Identity, The British Council, Bologna, 13 April 2000

- "Reading Ford through Marshall McLuhan: The Fifth Queen in the Light of the New Media", International Symposium, Modernism and The Individual Talent, Muenster (Westphalia), 25-27 June 1999

- "Side-effects of the Global Village: Douglas Coupland's Dysfunctional Young Urban Myth", International Symposium Canada and the Cultures of Globalization, Bologna 8-11 settembre 1999

- "Virtual Cities: Ford and the Republic of Letters", International Conference on Ford Madox Ford and the City, Institute for English Studies, London, 17 December 1999

- "Marshall McLuhan and the Modernist Writers", International Symposium on Marshall McLuhan, University of Ottawa, 5-7 Maggio 2000

- "Scientific Historian Versus Social Historian: Ford Madox Ford's Critical Attitude", Ford Madox Ford and the Republic of Letters, International Symposium, University of Bologna, 11-14 January 2001.

- "An Uncomfortable Memory: Wyndham Lewis in Toronto", Il Canada del nuovo secolo. Gli archivi della memoria, International Symposium, Monopoli (Bari), 30/05-03/06/2001

- '"Writing History: Ford and the Debate on 'Objective Truth' in Late 20th Century Historiography", Ford Madox Ford: History and Representation', University of Wisconsin, Madison, 20-22 September 2002.

- "From Empire to New Europe: Twentieth-Century British Studies", University of Edinburgh, Scottish Universities International Summer School (July - August 1993)

- "Scuola - Extrascuola. Cultura, espressione e sport nelle nuove realtà educative", National Symposium, Certaldo Alto, 15-16-17 aprile 1993 (Workshop on Visual Arts)

- "Advanced Introductory Post-Graduate Course - European Women's Studies from a Multicultural Perspective" - Intensive Summer Course (University of Bologna, 20th August - 11th September 1994)

- "Canadian Life Writing", Graduate Seminar at York University, Toronto, September-December 1997 (Winter Term - Invited scholar). Hosts: Prof. Clara Thomas, Prof. John Lennox

- "Media Ecology", Seminar at the McLuhan Program in Culture and Technology, University of Toronto, September-December 1997. Co-ordinators: Dr. Liss Jeffrey, Dr. Eric McLuhan

- "The Many Dimensions of Marshall McLuhan: An Introduction to McLuhan and his Legacy". October-December 1997 - McLuhan Program in Culture and Technology, University of Toronto, Continual Learning Courses 1997-1998. Host: Dr. Eric McLuhan, Associate Director, McLuhan Program International.

- "The McLuhan Monday Night Seminars", October-December 1997, McLuhan Program in Culture and Technology, University of Toronto, Continual Learning Courses 1997-1998; Moderator: Jesse Hirsh.

Undergraduate seminars

- "Anglo-American Modernism: Literature and Culture", 1999 (Academic Year 1998-1999, University of Bologna)

- "Ford Madox Ford's English Review and the transatlantic review: Modernist Magazine Literature", (University of Bologna, Academic Year 1998-1999)

- "Literature and Science: the Twentieth Century Debate", (University of Bologna, Academic Year 2000-2001)

- "European Modernism", (University of Bologna, Academic Year 2000-2001. Experimental European teaching module involving the Universities of: Bologna, Italy; Naples, Italy; Lublin, Poland)

- "Literature, Cinema and New Technologies. Alienation and Retrieval of the Body", Seminar, Academic Year 2001-2001

As Teaching Assistant in the following courses (undergraduate 1994-1998):

- Il romanzo e le arti nelle avanguardie del Novecento (Novel and the Arts in the 20th Century avant-garde movements, IV year)

- Tempo e corruttibilità del corpo: la rappresentazione del corpo nella letteratura inglese. (Time and Aging: the representation of the body in English Literature, I year)

- La malattia come metafora nella letterature inglese (Illness as a metaphor in English Literature, II year)

- Lo statuto ibrido della biografia (Biography as a hybrid genre, III year)

- Assistant co-ordinator to the partnership in force between the University of Bologna (Italy) and York University of Toronto (Canada), scholars/students mobility program. Activities in force for the year 2002-2003 include research projects in the following areas: Canadian Studies (referents: Clara Thomas, John Lennox, Vita Fortunati, Elena Lamberti, Carla Fratta); Media Studies (referents: Daniel Drache, Elena Lamberti); Translation Studies (referents: Agnes Whitfield, R. Bollettieri Bosinelli); History (referents: Adrian Shubert; Marlene Shore); Italian Studies (referents: Nick Elson, Gabriella Colussi Arthur, Roberta Sinyor, Andrea Battistini); Education (referents: Tove Fynbo, Roberto Farné); Bio-Technologies, Biology and Physics (referents: Gillian Wu, Ron Pearlman, Claudio Franceschi, Gastone Castellani, Ferdinando Bersani); Laws (referents: Michael Mandel, Craig Scott); Women's Studies (ref. Nancy Mandel, Vita Fortunati, Rita Monticelli).

- Designing, organization, direction (with Prof. Vita Fortunati) of the First Summer School "Bologna, a City at the Crossroads of Italy and Europe". This Summer School was designed and organized under the patronage of the partnership in force between the University of Bologna and York University, Toronto. In particular, it involved professors in the Humanities (Italian Studies, Modern Languages and Literatures, Visual Arts), as well as in the Sciences (Physics, Medicine) who offered to the Canadian students both lectures and field-trips for a three-week period. The Summer School was structured as an intensive course. It was addressed to Canadian students interested in Italian language and culture. In Bologna, classes were held in Italian, the focus being the city of Bologna presented as an historical place of study, culture and civilization, as a real crossroads between Italy and Europe. Classes were enriched by guided tours to Museums and historical and artistic places in Bologna and in Emilia Romagna. The project 'Summer School- Bologna, A City at the Crossroads of Italy and Europe' is now part of the activities organised under the patronage of the partnership in force between the two Universities and will be offered regularly, every year or every two years.

a) "European Thematic Network on Comparative Studies (Cotepra)". This was a three-year project (1998/99; 1999/2000; 2000/2001) sponsored by the European Community, grouping several European Universities and Co-ordinated by the University of Bologna. The aims of this project was to create and implement teaching modules (both undergraduate and graduate levels) with which the various national schools and university systems can experiment autonomously and in collaboration with each other, in order to:
1) study the various literary and cultural traditions on a large, international and comparative basis, with a special attention to the confrontation between literary, linguistic and cultural traditions and to the specific and often ignored contribution of the so-called "minor" literatures and cultures;
2) develop a theory of general and comparative literature capable to give new strength and sustenance to the programs of literary education that will be developed;
3) create a European (and also extra-European) program of literary education, in an effort to substitute the narrow nation-centred programs now in use (as well as textbooks, syllabi, canons, etc.) with new, larger and more internationally oriented programs. Experiments.
The project consisted of eight different sub-projects. In particular I served in :
- Sub-Project 1 (Co-ordinated by Prof. Vita Fortunati, University of Bologna): "Theory, praxis, methodology of research in comparative literature. Undergraduate, graduate and post-graduate programs of comparative literature in the European university". This sub-project aimed at designing new teaching modules to be taught in different European Universities simultaneously (undergraduate level). I designed a course on "Literature and (mass) media in Europe and North America: Mutual 'interference' and cultural implications (1880-1990)"; I co-operated in developing and teaching of the Experimental European Teaching Module on "European Modernism" (involving the Universities of: Bologna, Italy; Naples, Italy; Lublin, Poland);
- Subproject 7 (Co-ordinated by Prof. Susan Bassnett, University of Warwick, UK): "Theory and praxis of literary translation". This sub-project aims at studying the impact of translation studies as a cultural phenomenon. I served on the project "Translating Ford Madox Ford's Parade's End: a trans-national project".
- Cotepra Steering Committee and co-operated to the general management. This role involved the management of the relations with the European Commission offices and commissions; the participation to EU regular briefing related to European Thematic Network Projects and education; the writing of reports, renewals and relevant budgets; the establishment of links with North American and Canadian Institutions to work out new sub-projects and exchanges.

b) Designing and development of ACUME - Cultural memory in European Countries: An Interdisciplinary Approach. (Three-year European Thematic Network). Starting period: 1 October 2002. Assistant to the General Co-ordinator.

c) Ford Madox Ford Society - Scientific Board.

d) Editorial board of the on-line review 'Griselda On-Line'. Referent for the literary section dedicated to European and Extra-European Literatures.

- International Symposium Canada and the Cultures of Globalization, Bologna 8-11 September, 1999 (organizing committee)

- "Ford Madox Ford and the Republic of Letters", International Conference, Bologna, 11-14 January 2001. Co-sponsored by: Dipartimento di Lingue e Letterature Straniere Moderne; The British Council; Associazione Culturale Italo-Britannica; The Ford Madox Ford Society; COTEPRA - European Thematic Network on Comparative Studies (organizing committee)