Associate Professor of General Sociology at the Faculty of Education. She graduated from the Faculty of Sociology at Sapienza University of Rome, where she also obtained her PhD in Theory and Social Research. Since 2018, she has been president of RC37, the Sociology of the Arts section of the International Sociological Association (ISA), and has been a member of the Teatro Stabile di Bolzano's Board of Directors since 2013. Her research interests include sociological theory, critical sociology and the relationship between theory and social research (mainly qualitative, but not exclusively), as well as cultural sociology and avant-garde art as social criticism and an indicator of change. She is also interested in the interconnections between territorial reality and the dynamics of global change. Qualitative research and sociological theory.

She explores radical social phenomena such as art and marginality, avant-garde art, borders, multiculturalism and coexistence through critical social theory and qualitative research. Among her monographs are: Theatre and Society: The Case of the Stabile di Bolzano (Carocci), Futurism, Anticipating Postmodernism, and Essay on the Avant-garde and Society (Mimesis); Elites and Political Participation; Essay on Vilfredo Pareto (Carocci); and Towards a Sociology of Borders (Carocci).

President of the Research Committee in Sociology of the Arts of the ISA, International Sociological Association (since 2018)