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Who I am

I started studying philosophy because I liked it; I continued to do it because I needed to. I think few things are as difficult as changing a “way of thinking.” Hegel said that it is much easier to build from scratch than to rebuild on something that you had to deconstruct first. Philosophy is important for this very reason: it helps to create new thinking and deconstruct thoughts that no longer work in society, in relations between people, and in the management of power.

Feminist philosophies have an effective way of expressing this activity: critique and imagination. Critique and imagination are the tools that enable us to act in the world, to transform ourselves as people and communities who are no longer oppressive. Philosophy’s role in this journey is to support change with well-trained thinking, that is capable of asking questions and collectively working out answers.

This is my perspective. Now a few words about the path that led me to OUT of the ROOM. I am a MSCA Post-doctoral Fellow at the University of Padua and the Pontifical Catholic University of Argentina in Buenos Aires. 

I’m a member of the International Research Group on Classical German Philosophy HegelPd at the University of Padua and of the Sociedad Iberoamericana de Estudios Hegelianos (SEH) based in Chile. Moreover, I am part of the interdisciplinary Next Generation CEC group of the Elena Cornaro Centre at the University of Padua.

I have studied and carried out research projects at the University of Padua, Humboldt University Berlin, the University of Sydney and the University of Münster.

My main research areas are the following:

  • Classical German philosophy (especially Hegel). Why? Because classical German philosophy also deals with what the task of philosophy is, how it relates to other areas of knowledge, and how (or even if) it can be taught.
  • Contemporary metaphilosophy.What is it?  It is philosophy’s (critical) self-reflection.
  • Feminist philosophies. What does this mean? The world of feminist theories cannot be reduced to a single definition. However, their contribution has been a revolution in philosophy, in the way of conceiving, criticizing, practicing, and reinventing it.
  • Philosophy of education – or better – philosophy as education for thinking. What is it for? We often tend to devalue this area as a second-rate philosophy: “real theory” would lie elsewhere. And yet this field is one of the crucial nodes through which philosophy can produce widespread and lasting change in society.

One last note: since 2018, I have been a Teacher of Philosophy for Children and Educational Project Manager at the Association of Philosophical Studies Verifiche. Since then, together with a team of colleagues, I have designed and implemented philosophy workshops for primary and secondary schools.

Getting out of academia to enter classrooms (and back) has opened new, healthy, windows into the “room” of my research. The work of “translating” specialized philosophical knowledge into educational activities for the community has allowed me to experiment with philosophy and practice education for thinking with hundreds of children and teenagers ready to create and imagine new solutions and new worlds.

Who I am