Profile

I am a Teaching Fellow in Sociology, and I received my PhD here at Warwick in 2021, where I studied under the supervision of Gurminder K. Bhambra and Goldie Osuri. Prior to this, I did both my BA and MA in Philosophy at the University of Pisa (Italy).

Research

My research lies at the intersection of the history of concepts, the sociology of knowledge and political and social theory. I am particularly interested in how ideas and practices circulate, and how this circulation has an impact on the real world.

With my PhD, I traced the transnational circulation and re-articulation of 'the subaltern question' from Antonio Gramsci's 1930s Prison Notebooks to contemporary social theory. This path traversed the Italian folklore debates and British 'history from below' of the 1950s-60s, the Subaltern and Postcolonial turn of the 1980s-2000s and recent debates concerning the development of postcolonial, decolonial and global sociologies. Diverse as they are, all these moments grappled with a configuration of problems (not least, the polysemic definition of subaltern groups) that have emerged in relation to social groups whose 'subaltern' position denotes a lack of political-cultural power and oppression in terms of race, class, gender and sexuality. Questions of social and epistemic inequality, along with social and epistemic justice, thus lie at the bottom of my research.

Teaching

My interest in the multiple aspects of social and epistemic inequality has been complemented by my teaching across the Sociology, Global Sustainable Development and Philosophy departments at Warwick. In the last 5 years, I have gained significant experience and I have taught across a variety of modules, particularly those lying at the intersection of social/political theory and social justice.

In 2023/2024 I will be teaching:

Autumn Term

• SO945 Politics and Social Theory (module convenor)
• SO240 Commercial Cultures in Global Capitalism (module convenor)
• SO242 Designing and Conducting Social Research (with Dr. Teodora Todorova)

Spring Term

• SO126 Class and Capitalism in the Neoliberal World (co-convenor with Dr. Teodora Todorova)
• SO120 Researching Society and Culture

Areas of expertise

• Marxism/Gramsci Studies

• Postcolonial/Decolonial Studies

• Sociology of knowledge/Sociology of ideas
• Global sociologies
• Social movements

Publications (in English)

2023 The journey of subalternity in Gayatri Spivak’s work: Its sociological relevance. The Sociological Review, 71(6), 1258-1276. https://doi.org/10.1177/00380261231194495

2021 'The "intense ideological activity" of the 1919-1920 Factory Councils movement in Turin and the occupation of the factories', International Gramsci Journal, 4(3), pp. 40-85. https://ro.uow.edu.au/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1214&context=gramsci

2021 "Subalternity". Available online: https://globalsocialtheory.org/concepts/subalternity