Federico Luisetti
Crolla Amato Prize 2019 | Cultural Studies
Panel Judge
Federico Luisetti is Associate Professor of Italian Culture and Society at the University of St. Gallen.
From 2005 to 2017, Federico taught Italian Studies at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, where he was the Chair of the Department of Romance Studies from 2014 to 2017.
Federico is the author of books and essays on philosophy, critical theory, literature, visual studies, the Avant-gardes, and political thought. He has published book chapters and articles in several journals, including Diacritics, Paragraph, Rethinking Marxism and the Revista de Estudios Sociales. Among his books, he is the editor with John Pickles and Wilson Kaiser of the volume The Anomie of the Earth: Philosophy, Politics, and Autonomy in Europe and the Americas (Duke University Press, 2015).
His current research focuses on the state of nature paradigm and the genealogy and implications of environmental narratives, from climate change to the Anthropocene. He is a founding member of the Italian Thought Network, and the coordinator of the research group on the Politics of Nature at the University of St. Gallen.
