Academic qualifications:
2023 – Abilitazione scientifica nazionale, professore di prima fascia, 14/A1, Filosofia politica
2020 – Qualification au corps des Professeurs des Universités, section 17, philosophie, équivalence de l’Habilitation à diriger des recherches (HDR).
Positions Held:
2021- Professore associato di Filosofia politica, Università di Bologna (Italy).
2015-2021 Senior Lecturer, Brunel University – London (UK).
2010-2015 Lecturer, Brunel University – London (UK).
2010 Assistant Professor, American University of Beirut (Lebanon).
2008-2009 Visiting professor and Marie Curie fellow, Université de Picardie – Jules Verne, Amiens (France).
2007-2008 Visiting professor and Marie Curie fellow, Occidental College, Los Angeles (U.S.A).
2005-2006 Visiting professor, Università della Calabria (Italy).
2004-2005 Visiting professor, Università ‘Mediterranea’ di Reggio Calabria (Italy).
1999-2005 Instructor, Università di Pisa (Italy).
2002-2006 Post-doc, Università di Pisa (Italy).
Education:
Ph.D. (2002) History of political thought, Università di Pisa (Italy).
D.E.A./M.Phil (2000) History of philosophy, Université Paris IV – Sorbonne (France).
«Certificate of philosophy» (2000), Ecole Normale Superieure Lettres et Sciences Humaines Fontenay/Saint-Cloud (France).
M.A. (1998) Philosophy (with honors), Università di Pisa (Italy).
M.A. (1995) History of Ideas, University of Sussex (UK).
Professional membership:
2013 Fellow of the Higher Education Academy (UK)
Grants and Fellowships (as PI or Co-PI, Selected):
2023-24: Alma Mater Studiorum – Università di Bologna, Global South. PI. Project Title: Representing Absence: Creative and Pedagogic Practices for the Construction of a Transitional Justice and a Shared Memory in post-conflictual environments (Italy and Lebanon). Value: € 32.700.
2023-24: Alma Mater Studiorum – Università di Bologna, Blended Intensive Programme. Coordinator. Project Title: Hortus Spinozanum: Philosophy in a Time of Crisis. Value: € 6.000.
2023-24: Alma Mater Studiorum – Università di Bologna, Innovative Teaching Initiative. PI. Project Title: The History of Philosophy as Political Philosophy: International Cooperation for an Innovative Teaching. Value: € 19.520.
2023: Projet Blanc, Labex COMOD, Université de Lyon. PI. Project Title: Suárez et Spinoza : ontologie, politique, et droit entre immanence et transcendance. Value: € 1.200.
2022: Institute of Communities and Society, Brunel University London, Interdisciplinary Fund. Co-PI with dr. Daniele Rugo. Project Title: Landscapes of Violence and Memory. Value: approximately £ 6,000.
2020-21: Collegium de Lyon – Institute for advanced studies. PI. Project Title: Monstrosity and Philosophy: the 17th century. Value: approximately € 50.000.
2015: Brunel University London, Research Development Fund. PI. Project Title: Spinoza’s Ethica: A Multimedia Project. Value: £ 7,975.
2014: Brunel University London, BRIEF award. PI. Project Title: The Fifth Centenary of Machiavelli’s The Prince: A Celebration at Brunel University. Value: £ 14,950.
2012-2013: Higher Education Academy, Individual Grant Scheme, Flexible Learning Thematic Area. PI. Project Title: Developing multimedia resources: a flexible learning approach to the history of political thought. Value: £ 5,750.
2007-2009: European Commission, Marie Curie Outgoing Fellowship, Call identifier. PI. Value: € 286.000.
Grants and Fellowships (as Supervisor):
2022-2023: Alma Mater Studiorum – Università di Bologna, ALMArie CURIE grant. Value: € 10.000.
2022-2023: Alma Mater Studiorum – Università di Bologna, Assegno di Ricerca (BIR). Value: € 24.000.
Editorial responsibilities:
· Co-editor of the series Thinking in Extremes, published by Brill Academic Publisher, Boston-Leiden (Netherlands-USA).
· Editor of the series Spinoza Studies, published by Edinburgh University Press, Edinburgh (UK).
· Editor of the series Materialismi, published by DeriveApprodi, Bologna (Italy).
Scientific Board Memberships:
Journals:
Anacronismo e Irrupción: Revista de Teoría y Filosofía Clásica y Moderna [ISSN: 2250-4982] (Argentina).
Astérion: Philosophie, histoire des idées, pensée politique (Reading Committee) [ISSN: 1762-6110] (France).
Consecutio Rerum: Rivista Critica della postmodernità [ISSN: 2531-8934] (Italy).
Décalages: an Althusser Studies Journal [ISSN: 1948-5840] (USA).
Journal of Spinoza Studies [ISSN: 2773-0107] (Netherlands).
Multitudes [ISSN: 0292-0107] (France).
Quaderni Materialisti [ISSN: 1972-3792] (Italy).
Cadernos Espinosanos [ISSN: 1413-6651] (Brasil).
Book Series:
Incitements, published by Edinburgh University Press, Edinburgh (UK).
Philosophie politique: généalogies et actualité, published by Éditions de l’Université Libre de Bruxelles, Bruxelles (Belgium).
Rifrazioni: Studi Critici di Storia della Filosofia del Diritto, published by ETS, Pisa (Italy).
Spinoziana, published by Mimesis, Milano (Italy).
Research centres and research projects:
· Centro Latinoamericano de Estudios Spinozistas (Argentina).
· Gabriel Naudé’s Oeuvres Complètes (France).
· Societas Spinozana (Italy).
· British Society for the History of Philosophy (UK).
· COST Action CA20105 “Slow Memory”, Working Group 4: “Transformations of Conflict”.
· Centro Studi “Marx e i Marxismi”, (Dipartimento di Scienze Politiche, Giuridiche e Studi Internazionali, Università di Padova).
· Centro Internazionale di Studi Spinoziani “Sive Natura”, (Dipartimento di Filosofia e Comunicazione, Alma mater, Università di Bologna).
