She trained at the University of Rome "La Sapienza," where she obtained her PhD in Italian Studies and her Postdoctoral degree in the field of Italian literary history and philology under the supervision of Walter Pedullà. At the same university, she taught Contemporary Italian Literature and History of Publishing for several years on a contract basis. In 2006 she was appointed as a Researcher at the University for Foreigners of Perugia, and since 2015 she has been an Associate Professor of Contemporary Italian Literature.
Among twentieth-century authors on whom she has written several contributions, she favors the area of expressive and linguistic experimentation: Vittorio Imbriani, Carlo Emilio Gadda (with Mondadori Education she published in 2013 an annotated and commented anthology of Gadda’s works), Stefano D'Arrigo, Pier Paolo Pasolini, Amelia Rosselli, Elio Pagliarani, Alfredo Giuliani, Paolo Volponi, Albino Pierro, Jolanda Insana, and others. She co-edited with A. Cedola the publication of the first draft of Horcynus Orca (I fatti della fera, Rizzoli, 2000) by D'Arrigo and dedicated a monograph to the author, Il folle volo. Lettura di Horcynus Orca, published in the "Giacomo Debenedetti" series of the Department of Italian Studies and Performing Arts at "La Sapienza" (Rome, 2005; translated in France by Editions de Grenelle, Paris, 2025). In 2024, she edited the unpublished work Compratore di anime by Stefano D'Arrigo, published by Rizzoli. In 2025, she edited the collection of unpublished documents and wrote the afterword to the new edition of Horcynus Orca published by BUR. Her research interests include historical-geographical and spatial approaches in the study of literary texts, as well as theoretical and methodological perspectives on gender as they pertain to research and teaching. She has written about Anna Banti, Anna Maria Ortese, Alice Ceresa, Fabrizia Ramondino, Goliarda Sapienza (Il romanzo di lei. Narratrici dal secondo novecento a oggi, Carocci 2016) and has published L'Alibi dei personaggi e la parodia nella scrittura di Elsa Morante, Mimesis, 2025.
Deputy Editor of the magazine "L'Illuminista" published by the University "La Sapienza," she is a member of the jury for the "Elio Pagliarani" Poetry Prize.