20002023

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Personal profile

Biography

Trained in Europe (Bologna and Madrid) and the U.S. (Cornell), Professor Andrea Righi held positions at the University of Puerto Rico, Mayagüez, Colorado College, Miami University, and as a Visiting Scholar at the University of Macerata.

Research interests

Professor Righi is a cultural theorist who works at the intersection of continental theory, modern and contemporary Italian literature, gender studies, digitality, politcal thought, and philosophy from the early modern period.

His scholarship includes but is not limited to authors like Giorgio Agamben, Georges Bataille, Franco "Bifo" Berardi, Romano Bilenchi, Adriana Cavarero, Gilles Deleuze, Jacques Derrida, Ida Dominijanni, Michel Foucault, Rene' Girard, Antonio Gramsci, David Graeber, Luce Irigaray, Furio Jesi, Jacques Lacan, Carlo Levi, Curzio Malaparte, Karl Marx, Luisa Muraro, Toni Negri, P. P. Pasolini, Kim Stanley Robinson, Santa Caterina da Siena, Emanuele Severino, Paolo Virno, Slavoj Žižek.

 

Supervision interests

Professor Righi welcomes doctoral research applications in the following areas:

Continental and Critical Theory, Gender Theory, Italian and European Literature, Visual/Digital Studies, Political Thought, Cultural Anthropology, Theory of money

Expertise related to UN Sustainable Development Goals

In 2015, UN member states agreed to 17 global Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) to end poverty, protect the planet and ensure prosperity for all. This person’s work contributes towards the following SDG(s):

  • SDG 5 - Gender Equality
  • SDG 13 - Climate Action

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