I am a lecturer in Italian at the University of Galway, and co-director of the Centre for Applied Linguistics and Multilingualism (CALM). Currently I lead the discipline of Italian and am part of the the Equality, Diversity and Inclusion Committee of the School of Languages.

My research interests include translation, migration, and intercultural communication. I am currently leading a Research Ireland Laureate project, called "Rural Villages, Migration and Intercultural Communication" (2022-2026).

Previously, I researched migrant autobiographies and Italian American culture, which resulted in my monograph The Autobiography of a Language. Emanuel Carnevali's Italian/American Writing (SUNY Press, 2019). After my PhD, I was the recipient of an Irish Research Council/Marie Skodowska-Curie postdoctoral fellowship for researching multilingualism in refugee reception centers in Italy (2017-2021). In 2021, I was co-investigator on a British Academy-funded project on intercultural mediators during the COVID-19 vaccination campaign, based at University College London.

I am committed to mentorship and representation for early career researchers and international scholars. In 2023, I was selected among 40 excellent early career researchersas part of the inaugural cohort of the Young Academy of Ireland, an organisation within the Royal Irish Academy that supports early career scholars in Ireland. I sit in the executive committee of the Young Academy of Ireland, and on the Equality Diversity and Inclusion committee of the Royal Irish Academy.

I am interested in the social, cultural and creative aspects of translation; in particular when it takes place in contexts of migration and asylum.My PhD has explored autobiographies of Italian migrants to the United States in the early 20th century. Subsequently, I started employing ethnographic methods to research multilingualism and intercultural communication with asylum seekers in contemporary Italy.