“What’s in a Tear? From Dante’s Purgatorio to Pasolini’s Accattone,” presentation at the Annual Dante's Convention, «L’ombra sua torna» 2020: Dante, the Twentieth Century and Beyond, Madrid, April 19-21, 2021.
“The Voice and the Wound in Italian Holocaust Films,” NeMLA convention, March 10-14, 2021.
“What are these films about? Transgenerational Trauma, Emphatic Unsettlement, and the Holocaust in Contemporary Italian Cinema,” abstract accepted for the NeMLA convention, Boston, March 4-8, 2020.
"Space of Confinement in Paolo Sorrentino’s Cinema." NeMLA Conference, Washington DC, March 23, 2019.
"Il mare nel cinema di Paolo Sorrentino." AATI Conference, Cagliari (Italy), June 21, 2018.
“A Life Journey in Paolo Sorrentino’s The Great Beauty." Pacific Ancient and Modern Language Association Annual Conference (PAMLA), Portland, OR, November 8, 2015.
“Lo Spettacolo della Morte ne La Grande Bellezza di Paolo Sorrentino.” Sixth Annual Film Symposium on New Trends in Modern and Contemporary Italian Cinema, Indiana University, Bloomington, IN, April 24, 2015.
“A New “Laura” From the South. Isabella Morra and the Petrarchan Literary Canon.” I Congresso su Studi di Genere/ La Donna e la Scrittura in Ambito Lusofono e Italiano, University of Lisbon (Portugal), Novembre 18, 2014.
“The Revolutionary Failure of Pasolini's La ricotta." Pier Paolo Pasolini between Regression and Failure Conference, University of Paris-Sorbonne (France), May 10, 2014.
"Mourning Accattone. Redemption and Technical Sacredness in Pasolini’s First Film." Invited Lecture at Syracuse University, March 26, 2014.
“Life Is… Comic! Creative Writing, Oral Presentation and Technology in Second Language Acquisition.” 6th International Conference of Education, Research and Innovation (ICERI), Seville (Spain), November 19, 2013.
“Tanatopolitica, Arti Visive e Marxismo nel Cinema Italiano degli Anni ’60,” Intersections Conference, Turin (Italy), June 8, 2013.
“Camera-Brush and Literary Soundtrack in Pasolini’s Mamma Roma,” American Association of Italian Studies (AAIS) Conference, Eugene, April12, 2013.
“Channeling Emotions in Pontecorvo’s The Battle of Algiers,” American Association of Italian Studies (AAIS) Conference, Pittsburgh, April 9, 2011.
“Sacredness and Desecration in Pasolini’s La Ricotta,” American Association of Italian Studies (AAIS) Conference, New York, March 7, 2009.
“Voices from the Border. The Role of Rituals in Italian Political Films of the 60s,” Northeast Modern Language Association (NeMLA) Convention, Boston, February 26, 2009.
