Cinzia teaches courses in Italian language, literature, and culture. Her research interests include futurism, modernism, and contemporary Italian women writers. Her work as a translator includes Contemporary Italian Women Poets: A Bilingual Anthology (with L. Trubowitz), Carlo Michelstaedter's Persuasion and Rhetoric (with R. Valentino and D. Depew), and Susanna Tamaro's novel Anima Mundi. She is the author of Rewriting the Journey in Italian Literature: Figures of Subjectivity in Progress and The Other Modernism: F. T. Marinetti’s Futurist Fiction of Power, and she edited Futurism and the Avant-Garde (spec. issue of South Central Review).