
WRITING
I write professionally, in both English and Italian, on the relationship of music, sound, and politics in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries.
My first book, Risible (published by University of California Press in February 2024) explores the forgotten history of laughter, from ancient Greece to the sitcom stages of Hollywood.
As a scholar, I have been publishing peer-reviewed essays in leading academic journals for more than ten years. My interest range from the history of language ideologies and music in 1950s-1970s Italian cultural production, to the relationship of voice and sound reproduction technology, to the roles of sound, noise, and listening in eighteenth and nineteenth century conceptions of history.
As a music critic, I have been writing reviews of concerts and operas for nearly fifteen years. I started by being a regular contributing writer for Dominic McHugh's website www.musicalcriticism.com (now sadly deactivated), Listen Music Magazine, the Los Angeles Times, The Conversation and Sound Stage Screen.
I also present regularly at academic conferences and as an invited public speaker, and have considerable experience as an academic translator of essays and monographs from Italian to English.
To find out more, take a look at my Book, Essays, Music Criticism, Papers and Translations!