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Ciro Incoronato

Assistant Professor

Research Interests

  • 20th and 21st century Italian literature and thought
  • Italian Cinema
  • Eco-criticism
  • Continental Philosophy
  • Posthumanism

Education

Ph.D, Romance Studies, Duke University
Ph.D. , Philosophy and Bioethics, University of Naples Federico II

Courses Taught

  • ITAL 156- Exploring Rome: History and Culture of the Eternal City
  • ITAL 250- Minority Identities in Film and Culture: The Italian American and African American Experience
  • ITAL 406- Italian Culture and Globalization
  • ITAL 440- Modern Italian Novel

Additional Campus Affiliations

Assistant Professor, French and Italian

Work in Progress

My research examines how the Camorra criminal organization has created a dystopic totalitarian society, by controlling the economic system and affecting the natural environment in Southern Italy and the Mediterranean. Specifically, through the analysis of literary and philosophical texts, as well as movies and historical works, my work demonstrates how this criminal organization contributes to environmental degradation, racial inequality, and a veritable health emergency. 

Highlighted Publications

Incoronato, C. (2016). Homo artificialis: Dall'umanesimo della purezza ai neoumanesimi dell'ibridazione. (Tasselli; No. 18). Giannini Editore.

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Recent Publications

Incoronato, C. (2024). "A Surprising Comparison": Althusser's Interpretation of Epicurus and Heidegger. Sub-Stance, 53(1), 24-40. https://doi.org/10.1353/SUB.2024.A924140

Incoronato, C. (2023). The Future of Human Nature in a Post-human World: Habermas in Dialogue with Jonas' Philosophical Biology. South Central Review, 40(1), 59-75. https://doi.org/10.1353/SCR.2023.0003

Incoronato, C. (2019). Crisi ecologica e Capitale fossile: abbozzo di una genealogia economica del Global Warming. Scienza e Filosofia, (21), 154-163.

Incoronato, C. (2016). Homo artificialis: Dall'umanesimo della purezza ai neoumanesimi dell'ibridazione. (Tasselli; No. 18). Giannini Editore.

Incoronato, C. (2016). Postumanismo: Ovvero la logica culturale del tardo postmodernismo. In P. Amodio, & G. Giannini (Eds.), Esercizi di antropologia filosofica (pp. 69-86). (Tasselli; No. 19). Giannini Editore.

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