CURRICULUM VITAE ANDREA NICOLINI Temporary Professor of Moral Philosophy Post-Doctoral Research Fellow University of Verona Department of Human Sciences andrea.nicolini.uni@gmail.com ACCADEMIC POSITION Temporary Professor of Moral Philosophy SSD: Moral Philosophy (M-FIL/03) Bachelor Degree in Educational Department of Human Sciences University of Verona Post-Doctoral Research Fellow SSD: Moral Philosophy (M-FIL/03) Subject: Theory of Discourse and Practices of Institution Tutor: professor Riccardo Panattoni Department of Human Sciences University of Verona SPECIALISATION AND RESEARCH INTRESTS Ethics and Psychoanalysis 20 th century French Philosophy Philosophy of Cinema Erotism, Love and the Death Drive Nietzsche Foucault Lacan 1
PUBLICATIONS BOOKS [IT] «Riconoscimento di sé e genesi della coscienza», Insedicesimo, Savona 2018. [Self-Recognition and the Genesis of Consciousness] ISBN 978-88-99866-20-4 [IT] Editor of «Lascia ch io pianga. Il masochismo tra cinema, filosofia e psicoanalisi», Orthotes, Napoli 2017. [Lascia Ch Io Pianga. Masochism Between Cinema, Philosophy and Psychoanalysis] ISBN 978-88-9314-130-7 [IT/ENG] Editor (with G. Angonese, F. Dainese, C. Vareschi) of «A corps perdu: Limits, Constructions, Intensity of the Body», Edizioni dell Orso, Alessandria (forthcoming 2018). [ENG] «Masochism between Philosophy and Psychoanalysis», (dissertation), Verona 2017. ISBN 978-88-6925-059-0 ARTICLES (double blind peer review) [ENG] «A thing that thinks» in Agalma, n. 36 (forthcoming). [ENG] «A Wound on Poetry: A Reading of Pasolini s Teorema» in Scienza e Filosofia December 2017. [IT] «Il desiderio dell altro. Note a partire da Kojève» in Filosofia e teologia, April 2014. [The Desire of the Other. Some Notes about Kojève] [IT] «Chirpaz e l ambiguità del Leib» in Tropos, November 2013. [Chirpaz and the Ambiguity of the Leib] BOOK CHAPTERS [IT] «la sfida del corpo. Prospettive di bioetica» in, À Corps Perdu: The Body: Limits, Constructions, Intensity?, Edizioni dell Orso, Alessandria (forthcoming 2018). [The Challenge of the Body. A Bioethics Perspective] [IT] «Nymph()maniac» in Lascia ch io pianga. Il masochismo tra cinema, filosofia e psicoanalisi, Orthotes, Napoli 2017. 2
[IT] «Il tempo immobile della passione: Sacher-Masoch, Deleuze e la ritualità del dolore» in Calendari. L uomo, il tempo le stagioni, Castel Negrino Editore, Milano, 2017. [The Time of Passion: Sacher-Masoch, Deleuze and the Rituality of Pain] [IT] «Diritto e violenza. Alle origini della guerra» in WAR! L esperienza della guerra fra storia, folclore e letteratura, Castel Negrino Editore, Milano, 2016. [Law and Violence. The Origins of War] [IT] «Amore: Risvolti di aprile» in Transfert, amore, trauma, Orthotes, Napoli 2016. [Love: April Consequences] [IT] «Interior intimo meo. La logica del fantasma e la sua relazione con la sessualità» in Fantasie e fantasmi. Le fucine medievali del racconto, Castel Negrino Editore, Milano, 2016. [Interior Intimo Meo. The Logic of Fantasy in relation to Sexuality] [IT] «Il divenire molteplice della differenza» in La questione maschile, Archetipi, transizioni, metamorfosi, Poligrafo, Padova, 2015. [The Becoming-Multiple of Difference] [IT] «Cura dell altro e ritualità sadomasochistica» in La cura come relazione con il mondo. Sapienza delle donne, costruzione o costrizione?, Poligrafo, Padova, 2015. [The Care of the Other and Sadomasochistic Ritual] TRANSLATIONS L. Bersani and U. Dutoit, Merde Alors. Translation: Merde alors, Le 120 giornate di Sodoma (Pier Paolo Pasolini, 1975) in Lascia ch io pianga. Il masochismo tra cinema, filosofia e psicoanalisi, Orthotes, Napoli 2017. [ENG] L. Edelman, White Skin, Dark Meat. Translation: Pelle bianca, carne nera, La scuola dell odio (Hubert Cornfield, 1962) in Lascia ch io pianga. Il masochismo tra cinema, filosofia e psicoanalisi, Orthotes, Napoli 2017. REVIEWS [IT] «Riccardo Panattoni. Il black-out dell immagine» in Agalma, Roma, April 2014 [Riccardo Panattoni. The Black-out of Image] 3
SEMINARS, LECTURES, AND CONFERENCES [IT] «Tra trauma e migrazione. La questione del (co-)abitare a partire da Teorema di Pier Paolo Pasolini» [Between Trauma and Migration. The problem of (co-)habitation starting from Teorema By Pier Paolo Pasolini ] International Conference «Abitare. Terre, identità, relazioni» Università degli Studi di Roma Tor Vergata (Italy), June 13-15 th 2018. (Participation approved). [IT] «Il tocco della bellezza» [The Touch of Beauty] 2018 SIFM (Italian Society of Moral Philosophy) Annual Convention «Etica e bellezza» Roma (Italy), May 25-26 th 2018. (Participation approved). [ENG] «Closer Than You Think: A Philosophical Reflection on Non-traditional Kinship and the Law» Seminar at Academia Belgica «Non-traditional Kinship and the Law: Socio-Legal Perspectives», organized by the University of Antwerp, Sapienza Università di Roma & Academia Belgica, Rome (IT), May 17-18 th 2018. (Participation approved). [IT/FR] «Pasolini e il Teorema del desiderio» [Pasolini and the Theorem of Desire] International conference «Indispensabili e marginali. Les objets dans la littérature italienne contemporaine», Université Côte d Azur, Nice (FR), April 5-7 th 2018. [ENG] «After the Fall: Revolution and Reborn in Pasolini s Cinema» International conference «Sexual Revolutions Sexual Politics», University of Ghent, Belgium, February 22-23 rd 2018. [ENG] «Mishima or the Rules of Desire» 2018 MLA Annual Convention «Rules and Ruling», New York Hilton Midtown, the Sheraton New York Times Square, and the New York Marriott Marquis, New York, (USA), January 4-7 th 2018. [IT] «Mishima e la questione dell automaton» [Mishima and the Problem of Automaton] Seminar at the University of Verona, Verona (Italy), December 20 th 2017. [ENG] «The Duty to Die: Mishima and the Destructiveness of Human Existence» International Conference «Existence as Fieldwork» University of Palermo (Italy), December 6-7 th 2017. [IT] «Sulla soglia del corpo» [On the Edge of the Body] International Conference «À Corps Perdu: The Body: Limits, Constructions, Intensity» Verona (Italy), September 20-23 st 2017. 4
[ENG] «Between Pleasure and Desire: Foucault and the Question of Masochism» 2017 MLA Annual Convention «Theory and the Question of the Drive», Pennsylvania Convention Center and Philadelphia Marriott Downtown, Philadelphia, (USA), January 5-8 th 2017. [IT] «Il tempo del ricordo. Amore e perdita in T.S. Eliot, Roland Barthes e Sophie Calle» [Time of Remembrance. Love and Loss in the work of T. S. Eliot, Roland Barthes, and Sophie Calle] International Conference «Calendari. L uomo, il tempo le stagioni» Rocca Grimalda (Italy), September 23-25 st 2016. [ENG] «Becoming Innocent: The Death Drive between Sex and Philosophy» Deleuze International Conference «Virtuality, Becoming, and Life», Roma Tre University, Roma, (Italy), July 11-13 th 2016. [ENG] «Foucault and the Impossibility of Educating the Drives» Seminar at the University of Verona, Verona (Italy), June 27 th 2016. [ENG] «Suspicious Pleasures: A Critique of Foucault s Escape from Desire» International Conference of The College of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences «Panopticon: Surveillance, Suspicion, Fear», Lincoln University, Pennsylvania, PA (USA), April 2 nd 2016. [ENG] «Philosophy, Psychoanalysis and the Challenge of Masochism» International Conference of the American Comparative Literature Association (ACLA) «Lacan and Philosophy», Harvard University, Cambridge, MA (USA), March 17-20 th 2016. [ENG] «Where Do the Drives Lead: Durkheim, Lacan, Pasolini» Sixth Annual Women's Center Symposium on Gender and Culture «Belonging», Tufts University, Medford, Somerville, MA (USA), December 11 th 2015. [IT/ENG] Presentation and discussion of the book Porn After Porn: Contemporary Alternative Pornographies (Mapping Pornographies: Histories, Geographies, Cultures) ed. E. Biasin, G. Maina, F. Zecca, Mimesis, Milano 2014 at Sicilia Queer Festival - International LGBT & New Visions Filmfestival, Palermo (Italy) June 5-11 th 2015. [ENG] «The Real Feeling of Pain, A perspective on Violence, Pornography and Consent» International Conference PCACA Popular Culture Association American Culture Association «Eros, Pornography & Popular Culture» New Orleans, LA (USA), April 1-4 th 2015. [IT/ENG/FR] Chairman (March 25 th 2015) at the International Conference «La questione maschile. Archetipi, transizioni, metamorfosi» [Manhood. Archetypes, Transitions, Metamorphosis] Università degli Studi di Padova, Padova (Italy), March 23-26 th 2015. 5
[ENG] «The Unbearable Origin of Human Sexuality: A Philosophical Analysis of Pasolini s Teorema» Midwest Interdisciplinary Graduate Conference (MIGC) «Unbearable», University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, WI (USA), February 20-21 st 2015. [ENG] «Terrible Pleasure. Philosophical Perspectives on Sadomasochism» Seminar at NTU - Nottingham Trent University, Nottingham (UK), December 1 st 2014. [IT] «Interior intimo meo. La logica del fantasma e la sua relazione con la sessualità» [Interior intimo meo. The Logic of Fantasy in relation to Sexuality] International Conference «Fantasie e fantasmi. Le fucine medievali del racconto» Rocca Grimalda (Italy), September 20-21 st 2014. [IT] «Pasolini allo specchio. Introduzione a Salò o le 120 giornate di Sodoma» [Pasolini in the Mirror. An Introduction to Salò or the 120 Days of Sodom] Cineforum «Pier Paolo Pasolini» Verona (Italy), June 17 th 2014. [IT] «Cura dell altro e ritualità sadomasochistica» [Care of Other and Sadomasochistic Ritual] International Conference «La cura come relazione con il mondo. Sapienza delle donne, costruzione o costrizione?» Università degli Studi di Padova, Padova (Italy), May 28-30 th 2014. TEACHING EXPERIENCES Moral Philosophy Title: Love 2 nd semester 2018/2019 36 hours, (6 CFU) teaching course assigned. Moral Philosophy Title: The Concept of Moral Education in Plato, Foucault, and Lacan. 2 nd semester 2017/2018 36 hours, (6 CFU). Ethics and Psychoanalysis laboratory. Title: Foucault, Deleuze&Guattari, and the Drives. 2 nd semester 2016/2017 36 hours, (6 CFU). Ethics and Psychoanalysis laboratory. Title: Deleuze, Bataille, and the Problem of Difference. 2 nd semester 2015/2016 36 hours, (6 CFU). Ethics and Psychoanalysis laboratory. Title: Freud, Lacan and the Unconscious. 2 nd semester 2014/2015 36 hours, (6 CFU). 6
Teaching Assistant in under-graduate course in Moral Philosophy. 2 nd semester 2014/2015 40 hours, (12 CFU). BACHELOR THESYS UNDER MY SUPERVISION Francesca Tavella, Riflessioni etiche sulla disabilità a partire da Il normale e il patologico di Georges Canguilhem (Discussed the 26 th of March 2018). [Ethical Reflections on Disability starting from Georges Canguilhem s The Normal and the Pathological] ORGANISATION OF INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCES AND SEMINARS International Conference organizer: «Digital Philology», University of Verona (International Conference approved by the Department of Cultures and Civilizations of the University of Verona, 15 th /16 th June 2018). International Conference organizer: «À corps perdu. The Body: Limits, Constructions, Intensity», University of Verona (International Conference approved by the Council of Humanities of the University of Verona, 20 th /22 nd September 2017). Conference organizer: L. Edelman, The theft of Jouissance. Philosophy, Psychoanalysis and the Limits of Education, University of Verona (Conference approved by the Council of Humanities of the University of Verona, 27 th June 2016). Series of lectures organizer: «Pier Paolo Pasolini and Cinema», Verona 2014. (8 th April Accattone; 22 nd April Il Vangelo secondo Matteo; 6 th May Comizi d amore; 20 th May Teorema; 3 rd June Medea; 17 th June Salò o le 120 giornate di Sodoma) UNIVERSITY SERVICE AT UNIVERSITY OF VERONA 2014 2016 Representative of the Human Sciences Graduate Students. 2014 2016 Member of the Council of Humanities at the University of Verona. 7
MEMBERSHIP SIFM (Società Italiana di Filosofia Morale) TIRESIA (Philosophy and Psychoanalysis Research Center). ACLA (American Comparative Literature Association). MLA (Modern Language Association). PCACA (Popular Culture Association & America Culture Association) Deleuze Studies Journal EDUCATION June the 14 th, 2017 Ph.D. June the 14 th, 2017 Ph.D. Dissertation: Masochism Between Philosophy and Psychoanalysis. Advisors: - Riccardo Panattoni, professor of Moral Philosophy (Università di Verona) - Lee Edelman, Fletcher Professor of Theory and English Literature (Tufts University). Doctor Europaeus in Philosophy International referee readers: - François Noudelmann, professor of Philosophy, Université de Paris VIII Vincennes Saint Denis (France) - Enda McCaffrey, professor of Philosophy and French Literature, NTU Nottingham Trent University (UK) - Joseph Litvak, professor of English Literature, Tufts University (USA). January 2014 June 2017 PhD program in Human Sciences Philosophy. Università degli Studi di Verona. 8
September 2015 April 2016 September 2014 December 2014 October 2010 April 2013 November 2012 April 2013 July 2012 August 2012 May 2012 June 2012 November 2011 April 2012 November 2011 May 2012 September 2011 November 2011 October 2009 July 2010 Visiting Scholar at Tufts University, Department of English, Boston. Advisor: Lee Edelman, Fletcher Professor of English Literature. Visiting Scholar at NTU (Nottingham Trent University), Department of French. Advisor: Professor Jean Pierre Boulé. Master Degree in Moral Philosophy graduated with honors (110/110 cum laude). Università degli Studi di Milano. Master in Civic Education, James Madison Program, Asti, Italy. (in collaboration with Princeton University). Simulation of the European Parliament as delegate for Human Rights at SPECQUE (Simulation du Parlement Européen Canada Québec - Europe) Montreal, Canada. (The simulation was carried out in French). Summer School European Culture and Politics School at the European Parliament, Brussels. Advisor: Professor Gianni Vattimo. Training course on International Politics at the Italian Diplomatic Academy (Milan), followed by two weeks in New York City attending a simulation of the United Nation General Assembly as a delegate for the Human Rights. (The simulation was carried out in English). Training course on Constitutional Culture at Università degli Studi di Milano. Advanced Course in English at CCE Cairns College of English, Cairns, Australia. Master in Political Philosophy and Ethics at Sorbonne University, Paris (Erasmus Program). 2007 2008 Participation in a course for volunteer(s) organized by Paolo Pini Association. I am now certified to work with children affected by autism. 9
October 2006 July 2009 Bachelor Degree in General Philosophy graduated with honors (110/110 cum laude) Università degli Studi di Milano. GRANTS, FELLOWSHIPS AND AWARDS 2018 Excellence without founding for the project Blue Whale - Marie Skłodowska Curie fellow grant. 2017 Travel Grant for the MLA (Modern Language association) Convention in Philadelphia. 2016 Cooperint Travel Grant to serve as visiting scholar at Tufts University, Boston. 2015 Cooperint Travel Grant to serve as visiting scholar at Tufts University, Boston. 2015 Three months scholarship as teaching assistant of Moral Philosophy at the University of Verona. 2014 Three years fellowship for PhD Program in Human Sciences at the University of Verona. 2012 Ethica Grant to participate to the Master in Civic Education, James Madison Program, in collaboration with Princeton University. 2010 Awarded Grant for the Erasmus program at Sorbonne University, Paris. 2009 Awarded Grant for the highest grade in 3 th year undergraduate philosophy exams at the University of Milano. 2008 Awarded Grant for the highest grade in 2 nd year undergraduate philosophy exams at the University of Milano. 10
MODERN SPOKEN LANGUAGES Italian English French German native language fluent fluent entry level LETTER OF REFERENCE LEE EDELMAN MARIA CRISTINA BARTOLOMEI ENDA MCCAFFREY RICCARDO PANATTONI ROSAMARIA SALVATORE Fletcher Professor of Theory and English Literature Tufts University (USA). Professor of Moral Philosophy and Philosophy of Religion University of Milan (Italy). Professor of Philosophy and French Literature NTU Notthingam Trent University (UK). Professor of Moral Philosophy and Ethics and Psychoanalysis University of Verona (Italy). Professor of Film History and Criticism and Cinema and Psychoanalysis University of Padua (Italy). GIANNI VATTIMO Emeritus Professor of Theoretical Philosophy University of Turin (Italy). 11