Associate Professor of Musicology at the University of Catania. Her research focuses on music from a socio-historical perspective, historical soundscape studies, and the works of Vincenzo Bellini. Her publications on Bellini include the edited volume Vincenzo Bellini et la France. Histoire, création et réception de l’oeuvre (LIM, 2007), articles in academic journals, and a book on Bellini’s youth (Gli spazi del talento. Primizie musicali del giovane Bellini, Olschki, 2020). She is director of the Bellini Foundation and co-director of the «Bollettino di studi belliniani». She was scientific coordinator of the BellinInRete project and is currently a member of the IMS Directorium (International Musicological Society).