My primary field of study is nineteenth and twentieth century Italian literature. I am concerned with analyzing the dynamics among Italian intellectuals working between the dominant culture and so-called 'sub-dominant' cultures in the years crucial to the Italian definition of a national identity: that is to say, the Romantic period, the Risorgimento and the second postwar period. I recently became intrigued with notions of 'space' and 'communities' and their relationship to State-formations in a frame of time going beyond the immediate postwar period and covering instead a wider historical and geographical frame. I am also working on two other projects. The first will investigate the problematic concept of "resistance" in literature and society. One starting point for this developing interest is already contained in my article "The Myth of the Resistance or the resistance to the Myth? For a (re)reading of The House on the Hill by Cesare Pavese." The second project is concerned with analyzing and rethinking the political movements and uprisings of the 1970s, a period of Italian history which had a profound resonance and impact not only in Italy but also in Europe, and deeply affected the lives of many people involved in those events as well as the way of thinking and imagining Italian national identity.