Lorenzo Serini
Profile
I am Director of Student Experience and Progression in the Department of Philosophy at the University of Warwick. I received my PhD in Philosophy from the University of Warwick in April 2021, and before re-joining the Philosophy Department, I worked as a Teaching Fellow at the Institute for Advanced Teaching and Learning (IATL)Link opens in a new window. In between my PhD thesis submission and viva I received an Early Career Teaching Fellowship Award Link opens in a new windowfrom IATL and the Institute for Advanced Studies (IAS)Link opens in a new window at the University of Warwick. Moreover, I have been teaching seminars in the Philosophy Department since 2017/2018.
My current position is a teaching-focussed role, but my teaching is informed by my research, both in philosophy and in pedagogy. My teaching and research areas of specialization include Post-Kantian European Philosophy (especially Nietzsche); the History of Western Philosophy (both ancient and modern, including topics such as scepticism and the emotions); Philosophy of Wellbeing. I also have research and pedagogical expertise in Regulative, Virtue/ Vice Epistemology; Philosophy as a Way of Life; Critical Thinking; Applied Ethics.
My PhD thesis, titled Senses of Scepticism in Nietzsche's Middle Writings: How He Became a Sceptic, was funded by the Centre for Arts Doctoral Research ExcellenceLink opens in a new window and supervised by (now Emeritus) Professor Keith Ansell-Pearson. My PhD viva examiners were Professor Stephen Houlgate (internal) and Robert Pippin (external, University of Chicago). I am now working to turn my PhD thesis into a book.
Teaching
Module Convenor
2023/2024 (Autumn Term) – Reason, Argument and Analysis, Department of Philosophy, University of Warwick
Convenor of Interdisciplinary Modules
2021- (Autumn Term) – Understanding Wellbeing: Theory and Practice, IATL, University of Warwick
2021-2023 (Spring Term) – Thinking Water, IATL, University of Warwick (Postgraduate Module)
2021-2022 (Spring Term) – Genetics: Science and Society, IATL, University of Warwick
Guest Lectures
2023 – 'Working and Living with the History of Philosophy', Race and Philosophy, Department of Philosophy, University of Warwick
2020 – 'Emotions and Wellbeing', Understanding Wellbeing: Theory and Practice, IATL, University of Warwick.
2019 – ‘Stendhal, Nietzsche, and De Beauvoir on Love’, Philosophy of the Emotions, Philosophy Department, University of Warwick
Seminar Teaching
2023 (Spring Term) – Race and Philosophy, Department of Philosophy, University of Warwick
2023 (Spring Term) – Philosophy of Terrorism and Counterterrorism, Department of Philosophy, University of Warwick
2022 (Autumn Term) – Introduction to Philosophy, Department of Philosophy, University of Warwick
2022 (Autumn Term) – Philosophy of Evil, Department of Philosophy, University of Warwick
2021 (Spring Term) – Philosophy of Terrorism and Counterterrorism, Department of Philosophy, University of Warwick
2021 (Autumn Term) – Nietzsche in Context, Department of Philosophy, University of Warwick
2021 (Autumn Term) – Philosophy of Evil, Department of Philosophy, University of Warwick
2020 (Autumn Term) – Philosophy of the Emotions, Department of Philosophy, University of Warwick
2019 (Autumn Term) – Philosophy of the Emotions, Department of Philosophy, University of Warwick
2019 (Spring Term) – Making Decisions, Department of Philosophy, University of Warwick
2018 (Autumn Term) – Feedback Facilitator, Department of Philosophy, University of Warwick
2018 (Spring Term) – Nietzsche in Context, Department of Philosophy, University of Warwick
Other Teaching-Related Roles
2022-2024 – Co-Convenor of the PGA in Interdisciplinary Teaching and LearningLink opens in a new window (Staff-Facing Course)
2020-2022 – Tutor for the EUCILink opens in a new window programme at EUTOPIA European UniversityLink opens in a new window
Teaching Awards, Qualifications, Certificates
2023 – Nominated for the Warwick Awards for Teaching Excellence
2022 – Nominated for the Warwick Awards for Teaching Excellence
2021 – Postgraduate Award in Interdisciplinary Teaching and Learning (30 credits, distinction)
2020 – Postgraduate Award in Teaching and Learning in Higher Education (30 credits, distinction)
2019 – Departmental Teaching Award for Outstanding Contribution to Teaching
2018-present – Associate Fellow of the Higher Education Academy (AFHEA)
Selected Publications
I have a number of publications which are forthcoming, under review, and in preparation.
Forthcoming – 'Nietzsche and Lucretius', Nietzsche's Philosophers Handbook, Berlin & New York: De Gruyter
2023 – Practices of Truth in Philosophy: Historical and Comparative Perspectives Link opens in a new window(edited with Pietro Gori), New York: Routledge.
2023 – 'Skepticism as a Truth-Seeking Practice: The Pyrrhonists, Diderot, and Regulative Epistemology', in Practices of Truth in Philosophy: Historical and Comparative Perspectives, edited by Pietro Gori and Lorenzo Serini, New York: Routledge.
2023 – 'Nietzsche and the Style of Non-Assertion: Skepticism, Fanaticism, and Hypothesis-Making', Nietzsche and/on Style, special issue of Nineteenth-Century Prose.
2023 – 'Stendhal, Nietzsche, and Beauvoir on Romantic Love', Nietzsche on Woman and the Eternal-Feminine. A Critique of Truth and ValuesLink opens in a new window, London: Bloosmbury.
2022 – 'Friedrich Nietzsche: Cheerful Thinker and Writer. A Contribution to the Debate on Nietzsche's CheerfulnessLink opens in a new window', (with Keith Ansell-Pearson), in Nietzsche-Studien, 40(3), pp.115-170.
2019 – Review of Diego E. Machuca and Baron Reed (eds.), Skepticism: from Antiquity to the Present, Bloomsbury, in The Warwick Journal of Philosophy (PLI), 204-2013.
Conference Organisation
2021 – Co-organiser La ragione impura: sulla filosofia di Remo Bodei, Istituto Italiano per gli Studi Filosofici.
2021 – Co-organiser ‘Blood at the Leaves / And Blood at the Roots’: Reconsidering Forms of Enslavement and Subjugation across Disciplines, CRPLA Conference, University of Warwick
2021 – Co-organiser Continental Philosophy and Its Histories, Warwick Continental Philosophy Conference (3rd ed.), University of Warwick
2019 – Co-organiser What is Philosophy: Past, Present, Future, Warwick Continental Philosophy Conference (2rd ed.), University of Warwick
2018 – Co-organiser Nietzsche Psychologist of Décadence, Ca’ Foscari University of Venice, University of Warwick, and Seminario Permanente Nietzscheano.
Research Networks
Co-Director of Seminario Permanente Nietzscheano (SPN)Link opens in a new window, Istituto Italiano di Studi GermaniciLink opens in a new window
Member of the Centre for Research in Post-Kantian European PhilosophyLink opens in a new window, University of Warwick
Affiliated Fellow of the Warwick Centre for Research in Philosophy, Literature, and the Arts (CRPLA)Link opens in a new window
Collaborator of the FCT-funded research project 'Mapping Philosophy as a Way of LifeLink opens in a new window', IFILNOVA, Nova University Lisbon
Editorial Position
2022 - Reviewer at Historical Materialism (Brill)Link opens in a new window
2021 – Reviewer at De GruyterLink opens in a new window
2019-2021 – Assistant Editor at Exchanges: The Interdisciplinary Research JournalLink opens in a new window
Dissemination, Outreach, and Impact
I co-produced Understanding WellbeingLink opens in a new window, an online interdisciplinary module opened to all students at the University of Warwick.
Director of Student Experience and Progression
Assistant Professor of Philosophy
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Email: Lorenzo.Serini@warwick.ac.uk
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Office Hours: Friday, 14:00-15:00 in S2.61Link opens in a new window.
Here is the linkLink opens in a new window to book a 15-minute slot in my advice and feedback hours.
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Essay Writing Support Hours: Tuesday and Thursday, 15:15-16:15 in S2.61Link opens in a new window.
Here is the linkLink opens in a new window to book a 15-minute slot in my essay writing support hour.
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Wild-Card Office Hour: Monday 15:15, in S2.61Link opens in a new window.
Here is the linkLink opens in a new window to book a 15-minute slot in my essay writing support hour.
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The mark of a good teacher: the ability to give a greater sense of possibility to another person.
'Ludendo docere' (Quintilian)