I joined the Life Worth Living project as a post-doc in 2024, working with Dr. Casey Strine and Dr. Joshua Forstenzer. My research lies in 20th century European thought (especially Italian literature and culture), Holocaust studies, and the relationship between moral philosophy and literature.

My PhD thesis examines two ethical concepts which arose as responses to the Holocaust and have since made their way into our shared moral vocabulary: Arendt's 'banality of evil', inspired by her portrait of Adolf Eichmann (Eichmann in Jerusalem, 1963), and Levi's 'grey zone' (The Drowned and the Saved, 1986), the term he uses to describe the insufficiency of traditional categories of good and evil in the Nazi concentration camps. It connects, for the first time, these two texts to a series of other foundational writings of the twentieth century, articulating the ethical vision they form together.

My work also conceptualises a style of writing I call 'bifocal': a hybrid, non-fiction genre that combines techniques of literature, philosophy, journalism and testimony, integrating personal experience with general reflection.