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Ilaria Santoemma

Adjunct professor

Department of Modern Languages, Literatures, and Cultures

Research

Keywords: feminist theory; ecofeminism; posthumanities; politics of technologies; radical epistemologies; political ecology

I am working at the intersection of feminist studies, political epistemology and theory, and the politics of technology. My areas of specialization include Contemporary Political Philosophy, Posthuman Studies, Feminist Theory, and Gender and Women’s Studies. My research bridges political philosophy with feminist epistemology, with an in-depth analysis of posthumanities, critical philosophy of technology and SRT, to develop conceptual tools for understanding ecological and socio-technical transformations, multispecies entanglements, and gendered dynamics of care, labour, and reproduction.

I have published on topic such as contemporary political subjectivity, Cyborg Theory, new forms of bio-labor and accumulation, and relationship between new technologies and design from a critical posthumanist perspective, New Materialism, and Social Reproduction Theory. My Ph.D. thesis entitled A Cartography of the Posthumanities. From Epistemologies to Political Philosophy, won the Paola Bora Prize for the PhD thesis in Gender and Feminist Studies in the 2023 edition.


Currently working on a monograph at the crossroads of new materialism, posthuamanities and SRT through the lens of critical political ecology.