Rebecca Bamford |
Rebecca Bamford is Reader in Philosophy at Queen’s University Belfast. Her current research projects focus on Nietzsche’s aestheticism, Nietzsche and the sciences, and on the philosophy of disability. |
Analisa Capputo |
Sandro Gorgone |
Sandro Gorgone is Associate Professor in Theoretical Philosophy at the Department of Ancient and Modern Civilisations at the University of Messina. He is a scholar of 20th-century German and French philosophy, with a particular focus on the works of Martin Heidegger and Ernst Jünger. His main research areas include temporality, ontology, technology, the crisis of humanism, and the relationship between modernity and secularisation. He has also explored hermeneutics of religious experience and the relationship between theology and philosophy. Another current research line of his pertains to geo-philosophy and the philosophy of landscape, aiming to reintroduce the philosophy of nature and the earth in the context of ecological issues. He has participated in numerous specialised conferences both in Italy and abroad and has authored articles and essays in national and international volumes and journals. His most recent monographs include: Nel deserto dell’umano: Potenza e Machenschaft nel pensiero di Martin Heidegger (Mimesis, 2011) and Strahlungen und Annäherungen: die stereoskopische Phänomenologie Ernst Jüngers (Attempto, 2016). |
Dominic Harkin |
Dominic Harkin is a PhD candidate at Queen’s University, Belfast currently teaching Modernism and Critical Theory. His research is interdisciplinary, attempting to better understand the relationship between Late Victorian/Modernist literature and the Philosophy of Science. In particular, his thesis concerns the effects of the New Empiricism—specifically, the Vienna and Berlin Schools of Logical Positivism—on the works of Irish Modernist, Brian O’Nolan. His research interests include the emergent genres of Detective and Science fiction at the turn of the century, their debt to particular conceptions of scientific thinking, and their (post)modernist transformation/subversions. (domh856@gmail.com). |
Natascia Mattucci |
Aisling Reid |
Aisling Reid is a Research Fellow in the School of Arts, English and Languages at Queen’s University Belfast, where she is part of HEA North-South Research Programme, ‘Ireland’s Border Culture: Literature, Arts, and Policy’, that runs in conjunction with Trinity College Dublin. She collaborates with Valentina Surace (University of Messina) and is co-editor of Just in Time: Theorising the Contemporary (Mimesis, Milan, 2023), as well as Pained Screams from Camps (2 vols, De Gruyters, Berlin, 2024). She has also published an Italian-English translation of Caterina Resta’s Geophilosophy of the Mediterranean (SUNY Press, New York, 2024). |
Caterina Resta |
Caterina Resta is a professor of Theoretical Philosophy at the Department of Ancient and Modern Civilisations at the University of Messina. Her research focuses on contemporary philosophy, both German and French. She has developed research related to nihilism, technology, the status of the human, the philosophy of difference, including gender, and the deconstruction of subjectivity. She has also explored perspectives on the Mediterranean and Europe, globalisation, and the environmental crisis from a geo-philosophical standpoint. She is the author of numerous books, articles, and essays, including: Il luogo e le vie: Geografie del pensiero in Martin Heidegger (Angeli, 1996); (with Luisa Bonesio), Passaggi al bosco: Ernst Jünger nell’era dei Titani (Mimesis, 2000); L’evento dell’altro: Etica e politica in Jacques Derrida (Bollati Boringhieri, 2003); L’Estraneo: Ostilità e ospitalità nel pensiero del Novecento (Il Melangolo, 2008); Stato mondiale o Nomos della terra: Carl Schmitt tra universo e pluriverso (Diabasis, 2009, new edition); Geofilosofia del Mediterraneo (Mesogea, 2012) and Geophilosophy of the Mediterranean, trans. A. Reid and V. Surace, ed. R. Fulco, S. Gorgone, G. Gregorio and V. Surace (Suny Press, 2024). |
Valentina Surace |
Valentina Surace was a research fellow (Theoretical Philosophy) within the framework of the FISR project “The Refunctionalisation of the Contemporary” and holds a PhD in Methodologies of Philosophy (University of Messina). Her research focuses on German and French 20th-century philosophy and contemporary philosophy, particularly: Martin Heidegger’s ontology of life and its Lutheran roots; Jacques Derrida’s deconstruction, in its ethical-political implications; the question of human habitation on Earth from a geo-philosophical perspective; Judith Butler’s social ontology. Her publications include: L’inquietudine dell’esistenza: Le radici luterane dell’ontologia della vita di Martin Heidegger (Mimesis, 2014); Soggetti precari. L’ontologia sociale di Judith Butler (Mimesis, 2023); “Messianismo e politica: Il frammento teologico-politico di Walter Benjamin” and “Messianismi e cosmopolitica: Derrida oltre Kant,” in C. Resta (ed.), Schegge messianiche: Filosofia, Religione, Politica (Mimesis, 2017); V. Surace (ed.), Anacronie. L’inattualità del contemporaneo (Mimesis, 2022); V. Surace and A. Reid (eds.), Just in time / Giusto in tempo. Theorising the Contemporary / Pensare il contemporaneo (Mimesis International, 2023); V. Surace, S. Gorgone and G. |
Craig Wallace |
Craig Wallace is a Lecturer in Film Studies at Queen's University Belfast, where he completed a PhD in the School of Arts, English and Languages in 2018. His research has focused on depictions of landscape, archaeology, and folklore in 1960s and 70s television. Publications include: ‘The “Carefully-Constructed Screen”: Phantasmagorical Strata in the Ghost Stories of M.R. James’ in Excavating Modernity: Physical, Temporal and Psychological Strata in Literature, 1900-1930 (Routledge, 2018); ‘The “old, primeval ‘demon’ of the place opening half an eye”: Penda’s Fen and the legend of the sleeping king’ and ‘To make visible the inner state: Penda’s Fen and the Films of Carl Theodor Dreyer’ in Of Mud and Flame: A Penda’s Fen Sourcebook (Strange Attractor Press, 2019); ‘Now Then: Non-Linear Time in the Novels of Alan Garner’ in Just in Time: Theorizing the Contemporary (Mimesis International, 2023); and ‘Cries and Whispers: Landscape and Sound in The Owl Service and Red Shift’ in Haunted Soundtracks: AV Cultures of Memory, Landscape and Sound (Bloomsbury, 2023). |
Chiara Vita |
Chiara Vita is a PhD student in Humanities at the University of Messina. She graduated from the University of Messina with a thesis entitled Walter Benjamin: Fragment, History, Messianic Politics. She also attended the University of Tübingen. She is the author of the essay Thinking the Extermination Camp from ‘For the Critique of Violence’, published in Pained Screams from Camps. She deals with the philosophy of Walter Benjamin and its actualisation in contemporary philosophical debate. |