2005 to present Professor of French Literature, Università degli Studi Suor Orsola Benincasa, Naples.
2001 - 2005 Full Professor in French Language and Literature, Facoltà di Lingue e Letterature Moderne dell’Università della Tuscia, Viterbo.
1988 - 2001 Associate Professor in French Language and Literature, Facoltà di Lingue e Letterature Moderne dell’Università della Tuscia, Viterbo.
2006 - 2007: professeur invité à Paris IV/ Sorbonne.
2008 al 2014 member of the Compared Literature Doctoral Commission, Università La Sapienza di Roma.
Fields of Scholarship
Cultural French history in the age of Enlightenment
Gender history in the age of Enlightenment
Honours and Awards
1987 Awarded the "Prix du meilleur livre étranger" in the essay category for "Madame du Deffand et son monde" (Seuil)
2003 Awarded the "Prix Saint-Simon" for l'Âge de la conversation"(Gammimard).
2006 Awarded the “Prix du rayonnement de la langue et de la littérature françaises”, by the Académie Française.
2016 Member of the Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei (2016)
2017 Cino del Duca World Prize, awarded for the entire body of her work. Awarded each year since 1975, the World Cino Del Duca is awarded to a French-speaking author whose work constitutes, in a scientific or literary expression, a message of modern humanism. It is the second highest endowed world prize in the humanities and social sciences after the Nobel Prize for literature.