MA and BA in Linguistics and Cultural Mediation at the Università degli Studi di Milano (specializing in Anglo and Hispanic American Cultures, as well as Mexican Studies), 2nd level postgraduate MA in Public History at the Università di Modena e Reggio Emilia. Her FPI project and dissertation work (realized in collaboration with the CISAN–UNAM) explores the film representation of reciprocate Otherness bridging the US–Mexico boundary. Her main research interests are: discursive and cultural representation of the US borderlands and Mexican American communities; CDA related to direct/structural/cultural violence; re/construction and narration of otherness through cinema and comics in the horror, gothic, and (weird) western genres.