STEFANIA TARANTINO | Curriculum
STEFANIA TARANTINO Curriculum
Current Position:
2021 Research Fellow – History of Philosophy – Department of Cultural Heritage Studies
(Dispac) - University of Salerno, Italy.
Education:
2008/2011 PhD in Modern and Contemporary Philosophy (cum laude), Istituto Italiano di Scienze Umane (SUM) Napoli/Firenze. Supervisor: prof. Enrica Lisciani Petrini. Title: “Vivir desviviendose” (To live renouncing one’s own life). Personal and impersonal in Simone Weil’s and María Zambrano’s thought.
2003/2007 PhD in Philosophy, University of Geneva, Switzerland. Supervisor: prof. Roberta De Monticelli. Title: “La libertà in formazione. La comunicazione filosofica in Jeanne Hersch e in María Zambrano” (Freedom in progress. Philosophical communication in Jeanne Hersch’s and María Zambrano’s thought.
2001/2002 Master degree in philosophy (DEA – pre-doctoral studies): “La phénoménologie et les approches cognitives de l’Homme” (The Phenomenology and Human Cognitive approaches), University of Geneva, Switzerland. Supervisor: prof. Roberta De Monticelli.
1999/2000 Research scholarship at the Istituto Italiano per gli studi filosofici of Naples for a specialization course in History of Philosophy.
1998 University degree (BA, MA) in Philosophy, University of Naples “Federico II”. (110/110 cum laude).
2001/2004 Assistent teacher in History of modern and contemporary Philosophy at the University of Geneva (Switzerland);
2002/2004 Project of research financed by the Swiss national science foundation (SNSF) entitled "Jeanne Hersch: a woman philosopher of her time. A journey through Ethics, Aesthetics and Pedagogy;
2003 Master degree in Philosophy (DEA) entitled "The Phenomenology and Human Cognitive approaches" at the University of Geneva;
2007 Post-graduation degree in Philosophy at the University of Geneva; 2007 Scholarship for the post-graduation course (CRIE) - Political knowledge - at the University of Naples "Suor Orsola Benincasa", unattended because winner of a different competition;
2007/2010 Second PhD with merit in Philosophy at the “Istituto Italiano di scienze umane of Naples/Florence;
2010/2011 Research scholarship at the Istituto Italiano per gli studi filosofici of Naples entitled "20th century women philosophers and the idea of Europe"; 2011 Assistent teacher in History of European philosophies at the University of Naples "Federico II";
2012 Research grant at the University of Salerno with a project of national interest (PRIN) entitled "Women, democracy and political crisis".
University level Certificate of Ability to teach Philosophy (Abilitazione Nazionale (Miur)
National ability as an associate professsor in the following disciplines: M-Fil 06 (History of
Philosophy) from 29/03/2017 to 29/03/2026; SPS 01 (Political Philosophy) from 06/07/2017 to
06/07/2026; M-Fil 01 (Theoretical Philosophy) from 22/04/2021 to 22/04/2030.
Previous positions:
2016 /2018 Research Fellow – History of Philosophy – Department of Social and Human Science University L’Orientale, Naples, Italy. (M-Fil 06 History of Philosophy).
2015/2016 Research Fellow in History of Philosophy – Department of Literary, Linguistics and Comparative Studies - University L’Orientale, Naples, Italy. (M-Fil 06 History of Philosophy).
2014 /2015 Research Fellow in History of Philosophy – Department of Literary, Linguistics and Comparative Studies - University L’Orientale, Naples, Italy.
2014 Associate Research Director (DEA) – Fondation Maison des Sciences de l’Homme (FMSH) of Paris, France.
2012 /2013 Research Fellow – Department of Political, Communication and Social Sciences – University of Salerno, Italy. Research grant with a project of national interest (PRIN) entitled: Donne, democrazia e crisi della politica. Supervisor: prof. Eugenia Parise.
2010/2011 Research Fellow at the Istituto Italiano per gli studi filosofici of Naples with a scholarship entitled “20th century women philosophers and the idea of Europe”.
Coordination and direction of national and international research activities:
2014 Directeur d’études associé (DEA) – Fondation Maison des Sciences de l’Homme (FMSH) in Paris, France. This is the oldest program of international mobility of FMSH at which foreign researchers from every continent are invited to develop their research in France during a period from one month to seven weeks, through historiographic surveys on the spot, and working in libraries and in Archives. The program is exclusively reserved to foreign professors or study
directors, PhDs (or equivalent), operating in higher education or research institutes. Title of my own research: Thinking about gender in France and the question of female philosophers’ freedom in the XXth Century.
Other fellowships:
2013 Occasional collaboration contract for critical research and bibliography on: “Interculturalità e differenza di genere” (PRIN, 2009) for a research entitled: “Umanesimo, religione e democrazia nel terzo millennio” – Department of Humanities – University of Naples “Federico II”.
2012 Occasional collaboration contract for critical research and bibliography on: “The critical analysis of the various philosophical and historical dimensions of interculturalism” (FARO, 2011) Department of Humanities – University of Naples “Federico II”.
2007 Scholarship for the post-graduation course (CRIE) – Political knowledge – University of Naples “Suor Orsola Benincasa”. Unattended because winner of a different competition.
2002/2005 Project of research at the University of Geneva financed by the Swiss national science foundation (SNSF) entitled: Jeanne Hersch: a woman philosopher of her time.
A journey through Ethics, Aesthetics and Pedagogy.
Teaching activities:
2013/2017 Courses at the “Istituto Italiano per gli studi filosofici” in Naples (IISF): Filosofe per
la pace (20-24 March 2017); Genere, sesso, sessualità. Sviluppi attuali del femminismo contemporaneo (11-15 April 2016); Con Kant oltre Kant. La questione della libertà nella filosofia del XX secolo (13-15 April 2015); Due pensatrici europee: María Zambrano e Simone Weil (14-16 October 2013).
2015 Summer school of higher education (IISF) (September)
2009/2015 Teaching at the “Summer school of difference” – University of Lecce, Italy.
2008/2016 Assistant teacher in History of European philosophies – University of Naples “Federico II”.
2002/2004 Assistant teacher in History of modern and contemporary Philosophy – University of Geneva, Switzerland.
Peer Reviewer for the following scientific journals: “Rocinante”, Rivista di filosofia iberica e
iberoamericana, ISPF-CNR; “Estetica”, “Studi e ricerche”, il Mulino.
Evaluator. I was asked to evaluate papers anonymously for a University of the European Union.
Principal organizations of scientific meetings:
2017 Seminar: “Il potenziale creativo del simbolico nella mistica contemporanea tra sacro e profano”, Dipartimento di Studi Letterari, Linguistici e Comparati - Università di Napoli L’Orientale. (28 aprile).
2016 Meeting: “Alla ricerca della felicità: prospettive ermeneutiche e antropologiche”. Department of Literary, Linguistics and Comparative Studies – University L’Orientale, Naples, Italy (1-2 December).
2013 Meeting: “Femminismo e neoliberismo. Il dominio dell’incertezza. Dal futuro al presente”. Department of Political, Communication and Social Sciences – University of Salerno, Italy (12 June).
2013 Meeting: “Dimensioni filosofiche e storiche dell’interculturalità” – Accademia Pontaniana of Naples (19-20 November).
2009 Meeting: “Pensiero e giustizia in Simone Weil” - Istituto Italiano per gli studi Filosofici of Naples (7-8 May).
Memberships of scientific societies/Commissions of trust:
2015 –2021 Member of The Italian Karl Jaspers Society.
2016 International Scientific Board – Journal of The Italian Karl Jaspers Society.
2013-2015 International Scientific Board of “Festival delle idee politiche” of Pozzuoli (Naples).
2012 –2015 Member of the Society of Political Studies – Naples.
2014-2016 Editorial Board – Journal “Rocinante. Rivista di filosofia iberica, iberoamericana e
interculturale”.
2014-2017 Editorial Board – RTH “Research Trends in Humanities”, Institute for the History of Philosophical Thought and Modern Science (ISPF) of Naples.
2013 Scientific evaluator for PhD – University of Valencia, Spain.
Languages:
Italian (Mother Tongue); French (Excellent Spoken and Written); English (Good reading knowledge); Spanish (Good reading knowledge).
