Publications include Literary Imitation in the Italian Renaissance from Dante to Bembo (1995); ‘The rock & the vine: Pier della Vigna, Dante, & the imagery of empire’, in J. Woodhouse (ed.), Dante & Governance (1997); Italo Calvino (1998); (as editor) Britain & Italy from Romanticism to Modernism (2000); ‘Humanist criticism of Latin & vernacular prose’ and ‘Latin & vernacular from Dante to the age of Lorenzo’, in A. Minnis et al. (eds), The Cambridge History of Literary Criticism, II (2005); 'Humanist rewriting & translation: The Latin Griselda from Petrarch to Neri de’ Nerli’, in Hvmanistica, 1 (2006); (as joint editor) Dante in Oxford (2006); (as joint editor) Italy's Three Crowns: Reading Dante, Petrarch, & Boccaccio (2007); ‘Bilinguismo e strategie retoriche nel De pictura dell’Alberti’ & ‘Tradizione letteraria e originalità del pensiero nel De re aedificatoria dell’Alberti’, in A. Calzona et al. (eds), Leon Battista Alberti (2007); ‘Empire, eloquence & military genius: Julius Caesar in Renaissance Italy’, in Miriam Griffin (ed.), A Companion to Julius Caesar (2009); and ‘I Preraffaelliti e la letteratura italiana’, in C. Harrison et al. (eds). I Preraffaeliti. Il sogno del Quattrocento italiano da Beato Angelico a Perugino, da Rossetti a Burne-Jones (2010).

Research interests include renaissance literature, literary theory and humanism, and contemporary Italian fiction.