I currently work as an Assistant Professor in Gender and Postcolonial Studies at the Department of Media and Culture Studies (MCW), Utrecht University. In 2022, I obtained my doctoral degree in Political Philosophy and Gender Studies at the University of Verona and Utrecht University. My research, which I conducted between 2018 and 2022, focuses on queer critique and the discontents with it, navigating the work of such authors as Michel Foucault, Judith Butler, Eve K. Sedgwick, Rita Felski, Robyn Wiegman, and José E. Muñoz. Next to the the field of queer theory, my research and teaching interests include 'anti-gender' movements, critique and postcritique, postcolonial studies, feminist theories, and sexual and LGBTIQ+ politics.

Previously, I studied Philosophy at the University of Turin and Philosophical Anthropology at Radboud University in Nijmegen. I worked as a research assistant on a project on postcolonial intellectuals based at Utrecht University (2015-2017) and as a professional for both ATGENDER - the European Association of Gender Research, Education, and Documentation (2015-2018) and IALHI - the International Association of Labour History Institutions (2016-2018). I joined Utrecht University as a lecturer in January 2022.

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In 2024, the essay I wrote with Gianmaria Colpani, “Critique without Guarantees: Thinking with Stuart Hall in Times of Crises”, appeared in the open-access book Postcolonial Theory and Crises. At a moment in history traversed by multiple crises, this essay addresses the crisis of critique itself. It does so, firstly, by diving into the debate around postcritique; secondly, by turning to Stuart Halls's critical practice; and thirdly, by reading a number of readings of the Coronavirus crisis.

In 2023, the book Blurring Boundaries -'Anti-Gender' Ideology Meets Feminist and LGBTIQ+ Discourses was published, which I co-edited with Dorothee Beck and Annette Henninnger. This book the explore the uncanny convergences (or, indeed, “blurring boundaries”) between so-called “anti-gender” political claims and (some) feminist and queer discourses. Here you can read an interview with us about the book; on the LSE Review of Books platform and on the journals Gender – Zeitschrift für Geschlecht, Kultur und Gesellschaft and Social Semiotics you can read a few reviews of the book; and in GoogleBooks you find the full introduction as well as the ToC.

On this same subject, check also the piece “Gender in Trouble, Gender in Transformation” I wrote together with Susanne Täuber, Willemijn Krebbekx, and Sarah Bracke for the Tijdschrift voor Genderstudies (2025).