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Department of Philosophy

Agnese Di Riccio - Curriculum Vitae

Faculty Profile

Department of Philosophy  

Stony Brook University  

Stony Brook, NY 11794 

(631) 632-7570 

Email: agnese.diriccio@stonybrook.edu

 

Appointments

2026 Assistant Professor, Department of Philosophy, Stony Brook University

 

Education

  • 2026 PhD in Philosophy, The New School for Social Research (New York, USA)
    Dissertation Title: Social Imaginaries at the End: Radical Imagination, Nature, and Practices of Commoning under the Environmental Crisis
    Chairs: Jay Bernstein, Dmitri Nikulin | Committee: Alyssa Battistoni, Alfredo Ferrarin, Simona Forti
  • 2018 Visiting Researcher, Centre for Classical German Philosophy/Hegel-Archiv, Ruhr-Universität Bochum, Germany; Supervisor: Birgit Sandkaulen (April-June 2018)
  • 2018 Visiting Researcher, Warwick University, UK; Supervisor: Stephen Houlgate (January–March 2018)
  • 2017 M.A. in Philosophy (joint degree), University of Pisa (Italy) & Scuola Normale Superiore (School of Excellence, Italy)

  • 2016 Visiting Student, Philosophy Department, Tubingen Universität, Germany (January–August 2016)

  • 2015 B.A. in Philosophy (joint degree), University of Pisa (Italy) & Scuola Normale Superiore (School of Excellence, Italy) 


Areas of Specialization

  • Environmental Philosophy
  • Social and Political Philosophy (esp. [Post-]Marxism, Contemporary Critical Theory, Political Ecology)
  • 19th- and 20th-Century Continental (esp. German Idealism, 20th-Century French Philosophy, and Frankfurt School Critical Theory)

 

Areas of Competence

  • Ethics
  • Aesthetics
  • Modern Philosophy

 

Publications

Books

  • 2019 I modi del conoscere: Intelletto, metodo e rappresentazione in Hegel (Pisa: ETS 2019) [English title: The Modalities of Cognition: Understanding, Method and Representation in Hegel] 

Runner up for the HegelPd-Prize 2019 

Reviewed in: «Bulletin de littérature hégélienne» XXIX (2019), pp. 59–64

 

Edited Volumes

  • 2027 (exp.) (with Luigi Filieri) Symbolic Realities and Social Imaginaries, special issue of Rivista di Estetica 2027/2 (top tier Italian journal)
  • 2025 (with J.M. Bernstein) Social Imaginaries, Nature, and Social Change: A Critical Theory for the Present, special issue of Graduate Faculty Philosophy Journal 46:2. Includes contributions from: Ariel Salleh, Lois McNay, Saulius Geniusas, Biran Burkhart, Moira Gatens, Heikki Ikäheimo
  • 2023 (with Alfredo Ferrarin, Guido Frilli, Danilo Manca) La Psicologia di Hegel: Un commentario (Napoli: Istituto Italiano per gli Studi Filosofici, 2023) [English title: Hegel’s Psychology: A Commentary]
  • 2017 Storicità della ragione (Pisa: ETS) [English title: The Historicity of Reason]

 

Peer-Reviewed Journal Articles

 

  • 2026 (with Karen Koch) “Hegel’s Theory of Cognition: Reconsidering the (Non)Conceptualism Debate through the Philosophy of Subjective Spirit,” International Journal of Philosophical Studies, accepted for publication
  • 2026 “What Nature for What Ecopolitics? Rethinking Social-Ecological Relations with and beyond Castoriadis,” Contemporary Political Theory, accepted for publication
  • 2024 “The Space of Thought: Representation and Experience in Hegel,” Archivio di Filosofia 92:1 (2024), pp. 157–72
  • 2022 “La natura come vincolo: Physis e immaginario in Castoriadis,” in Ethics & Politics/Etica & Politica 24:3 (2022), pp. 157–78 [English title: “Nature as External Constraint: Physis and Imaginary in Castoriadis”]
  • 2022 “Rampant Kantianism? John McDowell and the Problem of Intentionality,” in La metafisica di Pittsburgh e l’eredità kantiana, special issue of Giornale di Metafisica 1 (2022), pp. 74–93
  • 2021 “Matter(s) of Love: Natural Reciprocity between Hegel and Lanthimos,” in Odradek. Studies in Philosophy of Literature, Aesthetics, and New Media Theories (2021)

 

Editor-Reviewed Journal Articles

 

  • 2025 (with J.M. Bernstein) “Ecological Imaginaries: A Conversation with Ariel Salleh,” Special Issue of Graduate Faculty Philosophy Journal 46:2 
  • 2019 “The Productivity of Abstraction. Cognition and Particular Sciences between the 1817 and the 1830 Encyclopedia,” Hegel-Jahrbuch 2019:1, pp. 44–51
  • 2019 “Sempre troppo tardi? Alienazione estetica e democrazia,” commentary to Jay M. Bernstein, “Late Style, First Art: The Fates and Politics of Modernism,” MLN 133:3 (2018), in Odradek: Studies in Philosophy of Literature, Aesthetics and New Media Theories 5:2 (2019)

 

Book Chapters

 

  • 2023 “La Psicologia negli studi Hegeliani: Nota bibliografica”, in La Psicologia di Hegel (La Scuola di Pitagora, Napoli, 2023) [English title: “The Role of the Psychology in Hegel Studies: A Bibliography”]
  • 2023 “L’intelligenza ‘si fa cosa’: immaginazione e fantasia in Hegel”, in La Psicologia di Hegel (La Scuola di Pitagora, Napoli, 2023) [English title: “Intelligence turned into “Thing”: Imagination and Phantasy in Hegel”]
  • 2017 “Adorno e l’idea di una ‘storia naturale’. Anacronie della ragione,” in Agnese Di Riccio (ed.), Storicità della ragione, Pisa: ETS, 2017, 89–103 [English title: “Adorno and the Idea of ‘Natural History’: Anachronies of Reason”]
  • 2016 “Dall’impulso della ragione alla produzione di segni. Sul ruolo dell’immaginazione nella Psicologia hegeliana,” in L. Filieri (ed.), Linguaggi dell’immaginazione, Pisa: ETS, 2016, 25–38 [English title: “From the Impulse of Reason to the Production of Signs: On the Role of the Imagination in Hegel’s Psychology”]

 

Manuscripts in Submission

  • 2025 “Commoning as Radical Social-Ecological Imaginary” (submitted to Philosophy and Social Criticism)

Manuscripts in Preparation 

  • An article on the role of radical social imaginaries in Cornelius Castoriadis and Sylvia Wynter (in progress)
  • An article on the relationship between social imaginary, ideology critique, and “forms of life” in contemporary critical theory (in progress)
  • [invited] An article on Hegel’s notion of action and its implication for understanding “blocks of praxis” under the environmental crisis (in progress; invited to special issue of Open Philosophy, Hegel’s Philosophy of Action, ed. Bojana Jovićević and Gregor Schäfer [De Gruyter])

 

Translations

  • 2023 (w/F. Palazzi and G. Vicinanza) Chiara Bottici, Imaginal Politics: Images beyond Imagination and the Imaginary (Columbia University Press, 2014); trans. Politica immaginale: Immagini al di là dell’immaginazione e dell’immaginario (Castelvecchi, 2023)
  • 2023 Paul Kottman, Love as Human Freedom (Stanford University Press, 2017); trans. L’amore come libertà umana (Quodlibet, 2023)
  • 2022 Chiara Bottici, Anarchafeminist Manifesto, trans. Manifesto anarca-femminista (Laterza, 2022)
  • 2019 Jay M. Bernstein, “Late Style, First Art: The Fates and Politics of Modernism,” MLN 133:3 (2018), pp. 604–636; in Odradek. Studies in Philosophy of Literature, Aesthetics and New Media Theories 5:2 (2019)

 

Book Reviews

  • 2021 D. Manca, Esperienza della ragione: Hegel e Husserl in dialogo (Pisa: ETS, 2016), in The New Yearbook for Phenomenology and Phenomenological Philosophy (2021)
  • 2019 A. Manchisi, L’idea del bene in Hegel: una teoria della normatività pratica (Padova: Verifiche, 2019), in Hegel-Studien 53/54 (2018–9)
  • 2017 D. Manca, E. Magrì, A. Ferrarin, Hegel e la fenomenologia trascendentale (Pisa: ETS, 2015), in Bollettino della Società Filosofica Italiana (SFI), n. 219, 2017.

Fellowships and Awards

  • 2026 Hans Jonas Memorial Award in Philosophy, Ph.D. Dissertation Award, New School for Social Research, May 2026 
  • 2025 One-month Research Fellowship at the University of Pisa; Research Project: “La costruzione di un immaginario sociale di tipo ecologico” (“The construction of a social-ecological imaginary”)
  • 2025–2026     Distinguished Doctoral Award (The New School)
  • 2023–2024Dissertation Fellowship (The New School)
  • 2023 Dean’s Conference Fund Recipient for Textures of Change: Social Imaginaries, Narratives, and the Possibility of Politics (The New School)
  • 2022     Outstanding Graduate Student Teaching Award (The New School)
  • 2018–2022     Richard J. Bernstein Prize Fellowship (The New School)
  • 2018 (Declined:) Andrews Fellowship (Purdue University); CADRE Scholarship (Warwick University); 5-Year Fellowship (Penn State University); 5-Year Fellowship (Stony Brook)
  • 2018 Erasmus+ EU Research Traineeship Grant, Ruhr-Universität Bochum and Forschungszentrum für Klassische Deutsche Philosophie/Hegel-Archiv, Germany (April–June 2018)
  • 2018 Erasmus+ EU Research Traineeship Grant, The University of Warwick, UK (Jan–March 2018)
  • 2012–2017 Scuola Normale Superiore Fellowship––five-years fellowship, comprehensive of tuitions, board, and lodging

 

Conference Activity

Peer Reviewed

 

  • 2026 “The Politicization of Nature: Ecofeminist Imaginaries against (Bio-)Capitalism”; APA Central Division, Poster Session, Chicago (February 18–21, 2026)
  • 2025 “Teleology and Life in the Anthropocene: Reassessing Hegel’s Nature,” in “Hegel: Natureza e Cultura na Era do Antropoceno/ Hegel, Nature, and Culture in the Anthropocene Age”; Hegel, Nature, and Culture in the Anthropocene Age, XIII Congresso Internacional da Sociedade Hegel Brasileira (December 1–5, 2025) 
  • 2025 “Commoning as Radical Social-Ecological Imaginary for Critical Theory”; Crisis! Life in the 21st Century, South African Society for Critical Theory, Nelson Mandela University, Port Elizabeth, South Africa (November 20–2, 2025)
  • 2025 “The Politicization of Nature: Ecofeminist Imaginaries against (Bio-)Capitalism”; Confronting (Bio)Capitalism: Critique, Feminism, and Ecology, International Workshop, Lisbon ( May 13, 2025)
  • 2025 “Re-defining Political Imagination under the Environmental Crisis: From Visual Agency to Material Imaginary”; APA Eastern Division, Poster Session, New York (January 8–11, 2025)
  • 2024 “With and Without Castoriadis: Rethinking the Imaginary under the Environmental Crisis”; Ethics and Politics of Imagination: International Double Workshop (2nd meeting), University of Vienna, Vienna (April 11–12, 2024)
  • 2024 “The Possibilities of Political Imagination: From Visual to Material Agency”; The Imagination: Powers and Possibilities, Boston College, Boston (March 22–23, 2024)
  • 2023 “With and Without Castoriadis: Rethinking the Imaginary under the Environmental Crisis”; Ethics and Politics of Imagination: International Double Workshop (1st meeting), University of Innsbruck, Innsbruck (October 13–14, 2023)
  • 2022 “Imaginary”; Political Concepts: A Critical Lexicon, The New School for Social Research, New York (March 25–27, 2022)
  • 2021 “Hegel’s Theory of Cognition: The Idea of the True between Realism and Constructivism?”; Examining the End of Hegel’s Logic: Objectivity, Idea and Nature, Warwick (September 9–11, 2021)
  • 2018 “The Productivity of Abstraction. Cognition, and the Particular Sciences between the 1817 and the 1830 Encyclopedia”; 32nd International Hegel-Congress, Tampere, Finland (June 5–8, 2018)
  • 2017 “Die Realisierung des Begriffs. Teleology as Concept’s Causality”; Causality in Hegel/Kausalität bei Hegel, LMU Munich, Germany (May 20–21, 2017)

Invited Talks

  • 2026 “Percorsi dell’immaginazione: Immagini, immaginario e prassi sociale,” Scuola Normale Superiore, Pisa (June 3–4, 2026)
  • 2026 “Practices of Commoning: Reimagining Social and Ecological Life in the Anthropocene,” Stony Brook University (February 12, 2026)
  • 2025 “Lo spazio del pensiero: rappresentazione ed esperienza in Hegel,” as part of the Presentation of Logica del sensibile e funzioni dell’intuitivo nella filosofia moderna: antecedenti e prospettive, Archivio di Filosofia XCII, 1, 2024 (June 27, 2026)
  • 2023 “Immaginario e crisi ecologica: l’attualità di Castoriadis”; Rileggere Cornelius Castoriadis tra democrazia ed ecologia, University of Milan, Milan (October 5–6, 2023)
  • 2022 “La natura come vincolo: physis e immaginario in Castoriadis”; Il pensiero di Castoriadis nel centenario dalla nascita, University of Pisa, Pisa (October 28, 2022)
  • 2022 (w/Karen Koch) “Intuition and Concepts in Hegel’s Psychology,” Our Animal Capacities, Freie Universität and Humboldt Universität Berlin (March 28, 2022)
  • 2022 “L’intelligenza si fa cosa: immaginazione e fantasia in Hegel”; La Psicologia di Hegel, Università di Pisa, Pisa (January 20, 2022)
  • 2019 “La teoria hegeliana del conoscere,” roundtable on I modi del conoscere: Intelletto, metodo e rappresentazione in Hegel (Pisa: ETS); Jan 14, 2019; discussants: Luca Corti, Arianna Longo, and Armando Manchisi
  • 2018 “Illusioni prospettiche. Sul concetto di esperienza in Hegel e McDowell”; Sellars e la filosofia post-kantiana, Università di Pisa, Pisa (December 20–21, 2018)
  • 2016 “Die reine Luste (50e5–55c3) in Platos Philebos” [in German]; 13th Meeting of the Association Logos Tübingen-Messina, Poreč, Croatia (August 23–30, 2016)

Discussant

  • 2024 Rahel Jaeggi, “Economy as Social Practice,” at Social Critique and Economics: International Critical Theory Summer School, Humboldt University, Berlin (July 2, 2024)
  • 2024 (by invitation) Stéphane Symons, “Unwordliness,” Thursday Night Philosophy Series, The New School for Social Research, New York (April 4, 2024)
  • 2024 (by invitation) Alfredo Ferrarin, Un mondo non di questo mondo: la realtà delle immagini e dell’immaginazione, University of Padua, Padua (March 21, 2024)  
  • 2019 (by invitation) Paul Kottman, Love as Human Freedom, University of Pisa, Pisa (June 27, 2019)

 

Conferences and Panels Organized

 

  • 2025 (with Giulia Battistoni) Hegel in the Anthropocene: Toward a Critical Ecological Thought (Discussants: Stefania Achella and Karen Koch), Society for Phenomenology and Existential Philosophy (SPEP 63), October 17–18 and 24–25, 2025
  • 2025 (with Giuliano Infantino & Samuel Lee) German Idealism and Beyond (February 21, 2025; The New School)
  • 2023 (with Miranda Young) Textures of Change: Social Imaginaries, Narratives, and the Possibility of Politics (April 13–15, 2023; The New School)
  • 2020–2023 German Idealism Workshop; The New School 

 

Organizer for (sample panels)

  • 2023 Speaker: James Kreines (McKenna College)
  • 2022 Speaker: Allegra De Laurentiis (Stony Brook); Respondent: Thomas Meyer (Humboldt) 
  • 2022 Speaker: Elisa Magrì (Boston College); Respondent: Guido Frilli
  • 2022 Speaker: Klaus Vieweg (Fredrich-Schiller Universität Jena); Respondent: Giulia Battistoni (University of Verona)
  • 2020 Speaker: Luca Corti (University of Padua); Respondent: Richard J. Bernstein (NSSR)
  • 2018 (with Danilo Manca) Sellars e la filosofia post-kantiana [English title: Sellars and Post-Kantian Philosophy], University of Pisa, Pisa (December 20–21, 2018)

 

Teaching Experience

Instructor of Record at Fordham University

Philosophical Ethics Spring 2025, Fall 2024, Fall 2023, Spring 2026

 

Instructor of Record at Eugene Lang Liberal Arts College, The New School

Modern Philosophy (including history of political thought)         Spring 2023, Spring 2022

Text Tutorial on Adorno & Horkheimer, Dialectic of Enlightenment     Spring 2020

 

Teaching Assistant at The New School for Social Research (Graduate Level)

Hegel’s Phenomenology of Spirit I Fall 2021, Fall 2023, Fall 2025

Instructor: Jay M. Bernstein

 

Hegel’s Phenomenology of Spirit II         Spring 2022, Spring 2026

Instructor: Jay M. Bernstein

 

Introductory Proseminar         Fall 2021

Instructor: Zed Adams

 

Teaching Assistant at The New School (Undergraduate Level)

 

Eugene Lang Liberal Arts College, The New School

 

Plato and his Modern Readers         Fall 2024

Instructor: Dmitri Nikulin

Core Curriculum, The New School

 

Death of Nature: Critical Environmental Thought         Fall 2023

Instructor: Alice Crary

 

Gaming the System: The Political Potential of Play         Fall 2022

Instructor: Coleen Macklin

 

Book to Film         Spring 2020, Spring 2021 (online)

Instructor: Paul Kottman

 

Aesthetics     Fall 2019, Fall 2020 (online)

Instructor: Paul Kottman


Teaching Assistant at Montclair University (Undergraduate Level)

Introduction to Philosophy Fall 2021, Spring 2022

Instructor: Meghan Robinson

 

Service to Profession

Chair of APA Eastern Colloquium Panel on “Marx” (January 7–10, 2026, Baltimore)

Managing Editor of Political Concepts: A Lexicon (2023–present) – peer-review online journal

Managing Editor of Graduate Faculty Philosophy Journal (2024–present) – peer-review journal

Senior Editor of Graduate Faculty Philosophy Journal (2021–2024)

Organizer (in collaboration w/Columbia University) of New York German Idealism Workshop (2019–2023)

Reviewer for Topoi, Philosophical Inquiries, and Verifiche: Rivista di Scienze Umane

Editor and Member of the Editorial Board of Women in Philosophy Journal (Journal of People in Support of Women in Philosophy) (2019–2020)

Member of the Editorial Board of Odradek; Studies in Philosophy of Literature, Aesthetics, and New Media Theories (2018–present)

Board Member of Zetesis, University of Pisa (https://zetesisproject.com/)—philosophical association that coordinates the activities of five research groups, organizes meetings, conferences, symposia, and promotes publications of established scholars and graduate students.

 

Service to Institution

The New School for Social Research

Project assistant for Lang and Beyond: Career Pathways Project—grant writing and research for integrating elements of career preparation into The New School liberal arts curriculum

Faculty Liaison (Philosophy Department)—Facilitated communication, addressed student inquiries and concerns, ensuring smooth flow of information between students and faculty 2022–2023

Member of the Town Hall organizing committee (2018, 2022)

Member of the University Student Senate (The New School)–Finance Committee

Co–facilitator of People in Support of Women in Philosophy (PSWIP)—group dedicated to the advancement of women and marginalized identities within philosophy

Scuola Normale Superiore

Student Representative in the University Academic Senate, 2016–2017

 

Additional Training

Topics in Pedagogy, The New School, 2019

Research Assistant, Chiara Bottici, 2021–2022

Research Assistant, Dmitri Nikulin, June–August 2021

Critical Theory Summer School, Berlin, July 2024

 

Languages

  • Italian Native Speaker
  • English Reading and Writing Proficiency
  • German Reading and Writing Proficiency
  • Spanish Reading Proficiency
  • French Reading Proficiency

 

Professional Memberships

  • American Philosophical Association, Eastern Division (2023–)

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    Society for Phenomenology & Existential Philosophy (SPEP) (2025–)

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    The Association for Political Theory (2024–)

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    North American Society for Social Philosophy (2024–)

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    Society for German Idealism & Romanticism (2024–)