Fostering innovative and open methods and tools in the classroom and beyond.
Expanding the scope and impact of traditional and digital humanities for the contemporary world.
Thinking critically about the role and design of technology, data and the social sciences in our lives and learning.
Promoting openness, access, and diversity in technology, and education in service of an equitable society.
Promoting change in schools, museums, libraries, and other organizations.
Advocating for new forms of scholarly communications, including blogging, multimedia, open publishing, and academic journals and presses.
Michael is a researcher and teacher working at the intersection of literature and philosophy and with interests in theater, performance studies, and cinema studies.
Michael researches and teaches modern Italian literature and culture in a comparative context (with interest in German, French, and British literature and thought). He also produces and directs Italian theatre at Oxford, where he coordinates the Early Career Researchers Writing Workshop and is a member of the Oxford Early Career Academic Outreach Network. Previously he has taught literature and philosophy at Bilkent University (Ankara, Turkey) and at the University of Chicago, where he also developed a widening access summer course with an intensive focus on written and verbal argumentation and rhetoric. He received his PhD with Honors from the University of Chicago from the Committee on Social Thought and the Department of Romance Languages and Literatures.
