I am Associate Professor of Moral Philosophy at the Department of Philosophy of the University of Bologna, where I teach Moral Philosophy and Philosophy of Emotion.
My areas of specialisation include emotion theory, Aristotelian psychology, ethics and poetics, philosophical psychology, and feminist philosophy.
I have held fellowships from the network of the Institutes of Advanced Studies in Edinburgh, Uppsala, and Paris for my work on emotion and I am the PI of a PRIN (Progetto di Rilevante Interesse Nazionale) research project on ‘Bittersweet, Ancient and Modern: Mixed Affect in Emotional Experience from Plato to Brain Imaging’.
I am the author of Le ragioni dell’ira (Carocci 2013) and of Theories of Emotion: Expressing, Feeling, Acting (Bloomsbury 2023; translated from the Italian Introduzione alla filosofia delle emozioni, Clueb 2021; the Turkish translation is forthcoming with Alfa) and I co-edited the collective volume Mixed Feelings: An Interdisciplinary Phenomenology for De Gruyter (2025) with Douglas Cairns. My most recent articles appeared in such journals as Emotion Review, Theoria, Apeiron, Rivista di Storia della Filosofia, Giornale di Metafisica, and the Oxford Bibliographies in Classics, and I recently edited a special section on the emotion of Being Moved for Emotion Review.
I am a Member of the Editorial Board of the Bloomsbury series on the History of Emotions, of the series Syllabus (Clueb, Bologna), and of the journal Emotion Review.
I have been invited to give papers at a number of conferences and seminars at Universities in Europe, North America, and Asia, including University of Tokyo, University of Notre Dame, Université Paris 1 Panthéon Sorbonne, University of Valencia, University of Crete, Bar Ilan University, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Israel Institute for Advanced Studies, Dartmouth College, Fudan University and New York University-Shanghai, Fondation Hardt pour l’étude de l’antiquité classique, University of Zagreb, University of Stockholm, Université Paris Nanterre, Uppsala University, and Edinburgh University.
