She is the Chair of the Department of Romance and Latin American Studies, the Director of the Italian Studies Program, and she was recently appointed as the Director of the Vidal Sassoon International Center for the Study of Antisemitism. Her latest books are Resistenza o Shoah, the Memory of the Deportation and Extermination in Italy between 1945-1985 (Magnes University Press 2010) and L’eclisse dell’antifascismo. Resistenza, questione ebraica e cultura politica in Italia 1943-1989 (Laterza Publisher 2015). She has published on Italian Jewish History, Shoah literature and Holocaust studies, on Antisemitism, on memory and national identity buildung in Western Europe, and on gender issues.