· Radio and Podcasts
· Some things that I have written for Italian newspapers
On Bob Dylan, accusation, idolizations, (not) looking back, life vs. art
On Teresa Ciabatti, the Strega Prize, Baroque poetry and silkworms
On watching RuPaul’s Drag Race with friends, Legge Zan, and Benvenuto Cellini
On the magic of mail and Ti basta l’Atlantico?
On Biancamaria Frabotta’s Tutte le poesie
On Jhumpa Lahiri’s Il quaderno di Nerina, invented authors and books
A dialogue with Chiara Valerio on androids, The Future Eve, and Ishiguro
On philology as science fiction and Lorenzo Tomasin’s Europa romanza
On Lina Bolzoni’s Una meravigliosa solitudine
On Manzoni’s Promessi sposi and other ‘national novels’
Relaunch of the RuPaul piece with Renaissance and pedagogical stuff
On homophobia and imagining a posthumanist Italian queer canon
On the agency of uniforms, epic armors, magic shields, superhero suits, and Evangelion—via Michela Murgia
On Michela Murgia’s Istruzioni per diventare fascisti
On a poem by Giorgio Caproni assigned for the ‘esame di maturità’
· Videos
Closing talk of the Schifano Study Days at the Center for Italian Modern Art (October 23, 2021)
Webinar at the Istituto italiano di cultura di New York with the Cosmopolitan Italies Collective
Video presentation of the program in Comparative Literature at Bryn Mawr College (Fall 2020)
Informal conversation on “Political Correctness as a Serious Thing” with the Haverford Freethinkers group
Inaugural event of the Cosmopolitan Italies Collective, January 18, 2021
Presentation of Lina Bolzoni’s book with Eugenio Refini r at NYU’s Casa Italiana (November 13, 2019)
Panel on Ara Merjian’s “Against the Avant-Garde” at NYU’s Casa Italiana (June 2, 2021)
Presenting Organsa by Mariangela Mianiti with Luisa Muraro at the Libreria delle donne in Milan (May 15, 2021)
Guest appearance in Michela Murgia’s quarantine YouTube format Buon Vicinato with Chiara Valerio (April 25, 2020)
Guest appearance in Murgia’s and Valerio’s special Christmas edition of Buon Vicinato (December 30, 2020)
“Dalla soglia” series by Andrea Annessi Mecci, quarantined reading of Dario Villa (April 28, 2020)
Remote reading of Leopardi with Martina Piperno for the 2020 edition of the Festival La Forza della Poesia (June 2020)
“Caro Michele”, conversation with Chiara Valerio at the Italian Cultural Institute in New York (November 27, 2018)
Invited Lecture about Gabriele D’Annunzio’s emblems and imprese at NYU’s Casa Italiana (November 15, 2016)
“Di là dal ponte”, conversation with Jhumpa Lahiri and Lina Bolzoni at Scuola Normale Superiore (June 13, 2019)
“Infiniti e altri infiniti”, conversation with Licia Troisi and Paolo Zellini at Milan’s Tempo di Libri (April 22, 2017)
Remarks for Toti Scialoja’s centennial anniversary at the Accademia Nazionale di San Luca in Rome (December 16, 2014)
Brief interview for the vernissage of the Toti Scialoja exhibition at NYU’s Casa Italiana (November 2012)