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Valentina MoroAssistant Professor Ph.D. University of Padua, 2018 Harriman Hall 235 Tel: 631-632-7570 |
Areas of Specialization: Feminist philosophy, social and political philosophy, and classical antiquity (esp. Ancient Greek Tragedy)
Valentina Moro (she/her) obtained her PhD in Philosophy at the University of Padua (Italy) in 2018 and has then worked as a postdoctoral researcher at the Istituto italiano per gli studi filosofici (Naples, Italy), the Center for Advanced Studies for South-East Europe (Rijeka, Croatia), the University of Verona (Italy), and DePaul University (Chicago). Her research intersects feminist philosophy, political theory, and classical antiquity (with a particular interest in ancient Greek tragedy). Among her recent publications: V. Moro, Il teatro della polis. Filosofia dell’agonismo tragico (ETS, 2023) and E. C. Mason, V. Moro (eds.), Judith Butler and Marxism: The Radical Feminism of Performativity, Vulnerability, and Care (Rowman&Littlefield, 2025). She is a member of several philosophical societies, including the Society for Women in Philosophy.
Current research interests: politics of care, the concept of vulnerability in feminist theories, the politics of the commons, social movements, black and decolonial feminist readings of communality, gender and feminist studies on classical antiquity, Sophocles, tragic agonism, the sophists, the tragic chorus, Foucault's notions of power, discourse and truth-telling, the theatricality of politics.
Additional information may be found on her official website.