I came to Penn in 2022 from the University of Warwick, where I was an Associate Professor of Philosophy and the co-director of the Center for Research in Post-Kantian European Philosophy. Previously, I held postdoctoral and visiting positions at Columbia University, Sorbonne University, and Saint-Louis University in Brussels. In 2023-2024, I was a Humboldt Research Fellow at Freie Universität Berlin; I will be there again in Spring 2026.

I specialize in post-Kantian European philosophy (especially Foucault, Fanon, Nietzsche) and social & political philosophy. I also possess areas of scholarly and teaching expertise in aesthetics, early analytic philosophy & the philosophy of language (especially Wittgenstein and Austin), applied ethics, philosophy & literature/film, as well as the history & philosophy of human rights.

My book, The Force of Truth: Critique, Genealogy, and Truth-Telling in Michel Foucault, on Foucault’s history of truth and what I call possibilizing genealogy, was published by the University of Chicago Press in September 2023. I am an editor-in-chief of Foucault Studies, an area editor for Ergo, and the co-editor of two book series, Philosophie du présent (Vrin) and The Chicago Foucault Project (University of Chicago Press). I am currently at work on a forthcoming monograph on Frantz Fanon's social philosophy and his account of oppression (under contract with Oxford University Press).

At Penn, I am a member of the Department of Francophone, Italian, and Germanic Studies (FIGS) Graduate Group, and a member of the team of SAS professors who have been designing a new first-year curriculum for students in the College. In 2024, I received a Paideia grant for a course on "Oppression" that I designed and taught with Sukaina Hirji. I am also the proud recipient of the 2024 Charles Ludwig Distinguished Teaching Award.

 

Selected Publications

Books

Frantz Fanon’s Social Philosophy (Oxford: Oxford University Press, under contract)

Foucault (New York: Routledge, “Routledge Philosophers” series, under contract)

The Force of Truth: Critique, Genealogy, and Truth-Telling in Michel Foucault (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2023)

La force du vrai: De Foucault à Austin (Lormont: Le Bord de l’Eau, 2017)

Éthique et politique de soi: Foucault, Hadot, Cavell et les techniques de l’ordinaire (Paris: Vrin, 2015)

Jacques Maritain e i diritti umani: Fra totalitarismo, antisemitismo e democrazia (Brescia: Morcelliana, 2012); English translation: Jacques Maritain and Human Rights (South Bend: St. Augustine’s Press, in press)

  

Edited Books

Genealogy: A Genealogy (with Verena Erlenbusch-Anderson, New York: Columbia University Press, under contract)

Michel Foucault, La place de l’homme dans la pensée occidentale moderne: Cours de Tunis, 1966-1967 (with Orazio Irrera, Paris: EHESS/Gallimard/Seuil, under contract)

The Foucauldian Mind (New York: Routledge, in press) 

Michel Foucault, Généalogies de la sexualité (with Henri-Paul Fruchaud, Paris: Vrin, 2024); English translation: Genealogies of Sexuality (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, in prep.)

Michel Foucault, Le discours philosophique (with Orazio Irrera, Paris: EHESS/Gallimard/Seuil, 2023); English translation: Philosophical Discourse (New York: Columbia University Press, in prep.)

Michel Foucault, Folie, langage, littérature (with Henri-Paul Fruchaud & Judith Revel, Paris: Vrin, 2019); English translation: Madness, Language, Literature (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2023)

Michel Foucault, Dire vrai sur soi-même: Conférences prononcées à l’Université Victoria de Toronto, 1982 (with Henri-Paul Fruchaud, Paris: Vrin, 2017); English edition: Speaking the Truth about Oneself: Lectures at Victoria University, Toronto, 1982 (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2021)

Foucault and the Making of Subjects (with Laura Cremonesi, Orazio Irrera & Martina Tazzioli, London: Rowman & Littlefield, 2016)

Foucault, la sexualité, l’Antiquité (with Sandra Boehringer, Paris: Kimé, 2016); English translation: Foucault, Sexuality, Antiquity (New York: Routledge, 2022)

Foucault/Wittgenstein: Subjectivité, politique, éthique (with Pascale Gillot, Paris: CNRS, 2016)

Michel Foucault, Discours et vérité (with Henri-Paul Fruchaud, Paris: Vrin, 2016); English edition: Discourse & Truth (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2019)

Jacques Maritain, Contro l’antisemitismo: Dignità della persona, mistero di Israele, sionismo (Brescia: Morcelliana, 2016)

Michel Foucault, Qu’est-ce que la critique? suivi de La culture de soi (with Henri-Paul Fruchaud, Paris: Vrin, 2015); English translation: What Is Critique? & The Culture of the Self (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2024)

Michel Foucault: Éthique et vérité, 1980-1984 (with Ariane Revel & Arianna Sforzini, Paris: Vrin, 2013)

Michel Foucault, L’origine de l’herméneutique de soi: Conférences prononcées à Dartmouth College, 1980 (with Henri-Paul Fruchaud, Paris: Vrin, 2013); English edition: About the Beginning of the Hermeneutics of the Self: Lectures at Dartmouth College, 1980 (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2015)

Le travail de la littérature: Usages du littéraire en philosophie (with Ariane Revel, Rennes: Presses Universitaires de Rennes, 2012)

 

Journal Articles 

“Revolution as a Permanent Virtuality: Foucault on Kant, Moral Progress, and Freedom,” Archivio di Filosofia (forth.)

“From Recognition to Acknowledgment: Rethinking the Perlocutionary,” Inquiry 68:6 (2025), pp. 1460-1479

“What Does It Mean to Diagnose the Present? Archaeology and Genealogy in Michel Foucault,” Graduate Faculty Philosophy Journal 46:1 (2025), pp. 125-148

“Truth, Asceticism, and Becoming: Foucault With and Against Nietzsche,” Foucault Studies 38 (2025), pp. 88-100

“The Architectonic of Foucault's Critique” (with Tuomo Tiisala), European Journal of Philosophy 32:1 (2024), pp. 114-129

“Nietzsche's Genealogical Perfectionism,” The Monist 107:4 (2024), pp. 339-351

“On Possibilising Genealogy,” Inquiry 67:7 (2024), pp. 2175-2196

“La philologie comme exercice de l'objectivité chez Pierre Hadot,” Raison publique (2024)

“Rethinking Biopolitics: COVID-19, Differential Vulnerabilities, and Biopolitical Rights,” Journal of European Studies 54:1 (2024), pp. 27-41

“Philosophical Discourse and Ascetic Practice: On Foucault’s Readings of Descartes’ Meditations,” Theory, Culture & Society 40:1-2 (2023), pp. 139-159

“Reason versus Power: Genealogy, Critique, and Epistemic Injustice,” The Monist 105:4 (2022), pp. 541-557

“La fragilité de l'intellect: Martha Nussbaum, Aristote et la vie bonne,” Revue philosophique 147 (2022), pp. 165-175

“Biopolitics in the Time of Coronavirus,” Critical Inquiry 47:S2 (2021), pp. 40-45

“Critique without Ontology: Genealogy, Collective Subjects, and the Deadlocks of Evidence” (with Martina Tazzioli), Radical Philosophy 207 (2020), pp. 27-39

“Anarcheology and the Emergence of the Alethurgic Subject in Foucault’s On the Government of the Living,” Foucault Studies S3:1 (2020), pp. 53-70

“The Definition of Nonhuman Animal Euthanasia,” Animal Studies 9:2 (2020), pp. 1-20

“Alèthurgie oculaire et littérature de témoignage: De Sophocle à Soljenitsyne,” Revue Internationale de Philosophie 292 (2020), pp. 17-28

“The Emergence of Desire: Notes Toward a Political History of the Will,” Critical Inquiry 45:2 (2019), pp. 448-470

“Stanley Cavell, 1926-2018,” Radical Philosophy 203 (2018), pp. 122-126

“Governmentality, Subjectivity, and the Neoliberal Form of Life,” Journal for Cultural Research 22:2 (2018), pp. 154-166

“Confessional Subjects and Conducts of Non-Truth: Foucault, Fanon, and the Making of the Subject” (with Martina Tazzioli), Theory, Culture & Society 35:1 (2018), pp. 71-90

“Benjamin/Foucault: Histoire, discontinuité, événement,” Phantasia 7 (2018)

“Is Iris Murdoch a Perfectionist Philosopher?,” Iride: Philosophy and Public Discussion 81 (2017), pp. 373-384

“Briser le silence: La prise de parole entre infrapolitique et parrêsia” (with Orazio Irrera), Raisons politiques 68 (2017), pp. 65-82

“From Counter-Conduct to Critical Attitude: Michel Foucault and the Art of Not Being Governed Quite So Much,” Foucault Studies 21 (2016), pp. 7-21

“Performative, Passionate, and Parrhesiastic Utterance: On Cavell, Foucault, and Truth as an Ethical Force,” Critical Inquiry 41:2 (2015), pp. 254-268

“What Is a Regime of Truth?,” Le Foucaldien 1:1 (2015)

  

Book Chapters

“Foucault’s Genealogy of Sexuality: From São Paulo to Confessions of the Flesh,” in Niki K. Clements & Daniel L. Wyche (eds.), Foucault’s Confessions (New York: Columbia University Press, in press)

“Living Philosophically: Stanley Cavell, Moral Perfectionism, and Spiritual Exercises,” in David LaRocca & Paola Marrati (eds.), Stanley Cavell and Value Theory: Aesthetics, Moral Perfectionism, and the Human Condition (New York: Bloomsbury, in press)

“Foucault’s Genealogy of Scientia Sexualis” (with Arnold I. Davidson), in Daniele Lorenzini (ed.), The Foucauldian Mind (New York: Routledge, in press)

“Acknowledgment Is Not Recognition: On the Perlocutionary Dimension of Our Normative Practices,” in Matthew Congdon & Thomas Khurana (eds.), Recognition: Historical and Philosophical Perspectives (New York: Routledge), pp. 144-158

“Fanon, Epistemic Injustice, and the Colonial Medical Encounter,” in Marta-Laura Cenedese & Clio Nicastro (eds.), Violence, Care, Cure: Self-Perceptions within the Medical Encounter (New York: Routledge, 2025), pp. 144-147

“Foucault on Parrhesia and Rhetoric: A Reassessment,” in Marta Faustino & Hélder Telo (eds.), Hadot and Foucault on Ancient Philosophy: Critical Assessments (Leiden: Brill, 2024), pp. 230-240

“Genealogy as a Practice of Truth: Nietzsche, Foucault, Fanon,” in Pietro Gori & Lorenzo Serini (eds.), Practices of Truth in Philosophy: Historical and Comparative Perspectives (New York: Routledge, 2023), pp. 235-253

“Foucault, Governmentality, and the Techniques of the Self,” in Martina Tazzioli & William Walters (eds.), Handbook of Governmentality (Cheltenham: Edward Elgar, 2023), pp. 22-37

“La philosophie comme maladie du langage: Pierre Hadot lecteur de Wittgenstein,” in Pascale Gillot & Élise Marrou (eds.), Wittgenstein en France (Paris: Kimé, 2022), pp. 19-40

“Pour ou contre l’identité? Assujettissement, subjectivation, autonomie,” in Philippe Sabot (ed.), Discours et politiques de l'identité (Villeneuve d’Ascq: Presses Universitaires du Septentrion, 2022), pp. 21-30

“L’ordinaire à l’épreuve du perlocutoire,” in Pierre Fasula & Sandra Laugier (eds.), Les concepts de l'ordinaire (Paris: Éditions de la Sorbonne, 2021), pp. 149-162

“La parrêsia: une improvisation éthique,” in Jean-Marc Narbonne, Hand-Jurgen Lüsebrink & Heinrich Schlange-Schöningen (eds.), Foucault: Repenser les rapports entre les Grecs et les Modernes (Paris: Vrin/Québec: Presses de l’Université Laval, 2020), pp. 147-170

“La politique du paradis: Foucault, Les Aveux de la chair et la généalogie du néolibéralisme,” in Sandra Boehringer & Laurie Laufer (eds.), Après “Les Aveux de la chair”: Généalogie du sujet chez Michel Foucault (Paris: Epel, 2020), pp. 229-241

“Cogito et discours philosophique: Foucault lecteur de Descartes,” in Kim Sang Ong-Van-Cung (ed.), Les formes historiques du cogito: XVIIe-XXe siècles (Paris: Classiques Garnier, 2019), pp. 259-273

“Peut-on dire vrai en démocratie? Michel Foucault et la parrêsia comme forme de vie,” in Estelle Ferrarese & Sandra Laugier (eds.), Formes de vie (Paris: CNRS Éditions, 2018), pp. 171-187  

“Foucault, Regimes of Truth, and the Making of the Subject,” in Laura Cremonesi et al. (eds.), Foucault and the Making of Subjects (London: Rowman & Littlefield, 2016), pp. 63-75

“Ethics as Politics: Foucault, Hadot, Cavell, and the Critique of Our Present,” in Martina Tazzioli, Sophie Fuggle & Yari Lanci (eds.), Foucault and the History of Our Present (Basingstoke: Palsgrave Macmillan, 2015), pp. 223-235

“Subjetividad, poder y reconciliación” (with Domingo Fernández Agis), in David Pérez Chico & Alicia García Ruíz (eds.), Perfeccionismo: Entre la ética política y la autonomía personal (Zaragoza: Prensas universitarias de Zaragoza, 2014), pp. 95-115

“Éthique et politique de nous-mêmes: À partir de Michel Foucault et Stanley Cavell,” in Daniele Lorenzini, Ariane Revel & Arianna Sforzini (eds.), Michel Foucault: Éthique et vérité, 1980-1984 (Paris: Vrin, 2013), pp. 239-254

“‘That government is best which governs not at all’: Thoreau et les enjeux éthico-politiques de la désobéissance civile,” in Adrien Louis & Ariane Revel (eds.), L’art de gouverner: Questions éthiques et politiques (Bern et al.: Peter Lang, 2013), pp. 25-38

“Foucault, il cinismo e la ‘vera vita,’” in Lorenzo Bernini (ed.), Michel Foucault, gli antichi e i moderni: Parrhesia, Aufklärung, ontologia dell’attualità (Pisa: ETS, 2011), pp. 75-99

“La vie comme ‘réel’ de la philosophie: Cavell, Foucault, Hadot et les techniques de l’ordinaire,” in Sandra Laugier (ed.), La voix et la vertu: Variétés du perfectionnisme moral (Paris: P.U.F., 2010), pp. 469-487

  

Interviews & Public Engagement

“Frantz Fanon and the Politics of Truth,” Blog of the American Philosophical Association, March 14, 2023

“Histoire de la sexualité de Michel Foucault: Pourquoi voulons-nous tout connaître du sexe?,” Les chemins de la philosophie, France Culture, June 20, 2022 

“Techniques of Self-Transformation: Iris Murdoch and Moral Perfectionism,” ABC Religion & Ethics, October 5, 2021

“Che cos’è il perfezionismo morale?,” Philosophie.ch, September 15, 2020

“Jacques Maritain on Anti-Semitism and Human Rights: A Conversation with Daniele Lorenzini” (with Brian Phillips), Journal of Human Rights Practice, 10:3 (2018), pp. 536-545

“Qu’est-ce que le perfectionnisme moral?,” Les chemins de la philosophie, France Culture, September 5, 2018 

“Éthique et politique de soi,” Les nouveaux chemins de la connaissance, France Culture, January 8, 2016   

  

More on my Academia page and Google Scholar page.