Olivia Guaraldo

Olivia Guaraldo is Professor of political philosophy at the University of Verona where she also directs the Hannah Arendt Center for Political Studies. Her field of research comprises modern and contemporary political thought. She has worked extensively on the thought of Hannah Arendt (two monographies in 2001 and 2014, an Italian edition of Arendt’s essay Lying in politics) and contemporary feminist political theory, investigating the theoretical and political relationships between Italian feminist philosophy and Angloamerican gender theory. Guaraldo has also edited and introduced the Italian translations of Judith Butler’s works, Precarious Life (Rome 2004, Milan 2013) and Undoing Gender (Rome 2006, Milan 2014).