Who I am
I’m a PhD candidate in French Studies at the CUNY Graduate Center, where I specialize in early modern French literature, women’s writing, and digital humanities. My research focuses on the correspondence of Catherine de’ Medici, exploring how letters reveral strategies of kinship, power, and gendered communication in Renaissance Europe.
I combine archival research with digital methods, using tools like metadata structuring, text encoding, and data visualization. I’m the creator of Digital Accessibility of Catherine de’ Medici’s Correspondence, an open-access archive that enables users to search and explore the Queen Mother’s letters by recipient, gender, date, and other metadata.
Prior to that, I developed Lettres de Catherine de Médicis (1564–1566), a prototype database built during my time at Université Gustave Eiffel.
I hold a Master’s in Research from Université Gustave Eiffel and a BA in Foreign Languages and Literatures from the University of Udine. I’ve presented my research in both Europe and the U.S. and am passionate about bridging historical scholarship and digital innovation to make early modern women’s voices more visible.
