Torre Guinigi, Lucca, October 2023
photo credit to Marco Signori

Hello!

I am a Ph.D candidate in Philosophy at the New School for Social Research. I specialize in modern and contemporary European philosophy (especially Hegel), social and political philosophy, and environmental thought. 

My Ph.D dissertation explores the relationship between social imaginaries and social transformation in the context of the ecological crisis. I examine questions such as: What kinds of imaginaries can reorient our social structures? How can alternative visions of society drive political change? And how will these new imaginaries reshape our relationship with nature? Engaging with the works of Hegel and Castoriadis, I argue that the ecological crisis calls for a novel understanding of imaginaries as social ontologies rooted in institutions, material practices, and our natural environment.

As a recipient of a five-year undergraduate scholarship at the Scuola Normale Superiore, I had the chance to study the classics of modern and contemporary European philosophy in depth. I have published articles and book chapters on Hegel, the Frankfurt School of Critical Theory, and topics in aesthetics.  My dissertation on Hegel’s theory of cognition in his Science of Logic and Encyclopaedia was published as a book in 2018. 

At the New School, I am the Managing Editor of the Graduate Faculty Philosophy Journal and the online journal Political Concepts. When I am not editing or wrestling with philosophical writing, you can find me cooking for friends, taking photographs, or—until my leg protest—playing soccer.

For more details on my publications and upcoming projects, please visit my research page!