Lecturer II of Italian
About
Specialized in philosophy, I study and publish on contemporary Italian Thought, while paying particular attention to themes such as biopolitics, cosmopolitanism, posthumanism, and identity. Part of my theoretical efforts appears in Exclusion as a Blessing: The Italian Retrieval of Cynicism (Journal of Italian Philosophy, Spring 2023), in Franciscan Cynicism: Bare Life as a Transformative Cosmopolitics (Journal of Italian Philosophy, Spring 2019) and also in Closing the Space between History and Knowledge: on Agamben’s Apophatic Pragmatism (Italica, Fall 2017), which draws attention on the theological origin that distorted conceptions of knowledge presuppose.
Courses taught:
- Italian 422/Politics and Literature: At the Borders of the Human: The Question of the Animal as a Path to Self-Discovery (taught in English)
- Italian 374/Topics in Italian Literature: Literature, Art, Self-Liberation
- Italian 340/Contemporary Italian Culture: Rock ‘n Revolution
- Italian 275/Multimedia Language and Culture/Facing the New World Order: Snapshots of Contemporary Italy
- Italian 275/Italian Multimedia Language and Culture: Imagination, Invention, Fantasy
- Italian 232 topic/The Individual and Their own destiny in Italian Philosophy.
- Italian 232 topic: The Cheeky Manual for Street Survival
- Italian 231
- Italian 230
- Italian 102
- Italian 101
- Italian 100
