Orietta Ombrosi graduated from the Philosophy Department of Bologna University in 1995 with Prof. E. Melandri. From 1997 to 2005 she lived and studied in Paris, receiving various Italian and French grants to pursue a Doctorat de Recherche (PhD) in Philosophy, which she obtained in 2002 from the University of Paris X Nanterre, with a thesis supervised by Prof. C. Chalier and M. Abensour. She continued her research with a two-year Post-doc fellowship (2003-2005) from the Parisian Fondation pour la Mémoire de la Shoah.
In Paris, between 1997 and 2005, she attended the courses held by leading figures in contemporary French thought, and she held annual seminars and gave lectures at the Centre Pompidou and Sorbonne, at the ENS, and at the Mémorial de la Shoah, where she presented her first book Le crépuscule de la raison. W. Benjamin, T. W. Adorno, M. Horkheimer et E. Levinas à l’épreuve de la Catastrophe (Hermann, Paris, 2007; Engl. version in 2012, Academic Studies Press, Boston; Italian version in 2014, Giuntina, Florence). In France, she also taught and worked as ATER at the Département de Philosophie , at the Université de la Mediterranée (Aix-en Provence and Marseille) during the academic year 2002-2003. In 2004, she obtained the Qualification of Maître de Conférences en Philosophie, renewed in 2008.
In 2005 she was awarded a position in Italy as part of the Rientro dei cervelli (“Brain Gain”) ministerial programme, and settled in Bologna. As temporary lecturer/researcher, she worked at the Department of Philosophy at the University of Bologna for four academic years, from 2005 to 2009. Since December 2010 she has been a tenured researcher (Ricercatrice Confermata) at the Department of Philosophy at the Sapienza University of Rome; in 2014 (2012 round) she obtained the national university teaching qualification (Abilitazione Scientifica Nazionale) for academic discipline 11C/3 (Moral Philosophy). She has been a member of the Doctoral Board since 2018 and Associate Professor of Moral Philosophy since 2019. In the autumn semester of 2019 she was Joyce Z. Greenberg Visiting Professor in Jewish Studies at the Divinity School of the University of Chicago as (https://ccjs-uchicago-edu.ezproxy.uindy.edu/orietta-ombrosi).
She is Agreement Promoter for the Erasmus+ programme in relation to the following universities: University College Dublin, École Normale Superièure - Paris, Université Paris Ouest-Nanterre, INALCO - Paris, and Université de Strasbourg, de Caen et de Nantes. She is also in charge of bilateral agreements with the National Sun Yan Sen University, Kaohsiung,Taiwan.
As far as publications are concerned, in addition the aforementioned monograph, she has published L’umano ritrovato. Saggio su Emmanuel Levinas, (Marietti, Milan 2010) and she has edited the following volumes: Nucler power. A scientific and philosophical issue from 1945 to today (It.-Engl., Mimesis, Milan 2020); Derrida-Levinas. An Alliance Awaiting the Political, with R. Zagury-Orly, (Fr.-Engl., Mimesis International, 2018); Ebraismo “al femminile”. Percorsi diversi di intellettuali ebree del Novecento (Giuntina, Florence 2017); Tra Torah e Sophia. Orizzonti e frontiere della Filosofia ebraica (Marietti, Milan 2011). She has also translated and edited, Simone Weil, La colonizzazione e il destino dell’Europa (Marietti, Milan, 2009).