Professor of Performing Arts Disciplines at the University of Siena, Department of Historical Sciences and Cultural Heritage. Between 2016 and 2023 she carried out teaching and research activities at the Universities of Padua and Bari. Her research interests move on the borderline between theatre and dance, ranging from the genesis of pantomime dance to the early 19th-century Italian theatre scene and opening up to 20th-century theatre.
After graduating in Arts, Music and Performing Arts from the University of Florence (2005), she obtained a Master's degree in Theatre Studies from the Alma Mater Studiorum University of Bologna (2008) and a PhD in "History and Criticism of the Artistic, Musical and Performing Arts Heritage" from the University of Padua (Cycle XXVI - 2014) with a thesis on Italian pantomime ballet of the second half of the 18th century. From 2015 to 2023 she was a lecturer in Theatre and Performance Methodology at the University of Padua, and from 2021 to 2023 she was a research fellow at the same university. Before coming to the University of Siena, she was a research fellow at the University of Bari Aldo Moro (May-December 2023).
She is a member of the Dance Philology Research Group (https://site.unibo.it/filologiadelladanza/it/gruppo), within whose activities she is working on the critical edition of the choreographic score of the ballet Arlequinade.
She is a member of the editorial board of the scientific journal "Danza e ricerca. Laboratorio di studi, scritture, visioni", directed by Elena Cervellati and Elena Randi, and member of the scientific committee of the open access series "Via Teatrale" (Mimesis), directed by Leonardo Mancini.
She has participated as a speaker in numerous national and international conferences. Between 2012 and 2016 he collaborated with Arteven as a sector expert in audience education activities for the presentation of shows and companies of the seasons in the theatres of Mestre, Treviso and Vicenza.