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Born in October 1969, ORIETTA OMBROSI graduated with full honours (summa cum laude) in 1995 from the Department of Philosophy of the University of Bologna with a thesis on Emmanuel Levinas. From 1997 to 2004 she lived in Paris and benefited from several different scholarships. In 2002 she was awarded the "félicitations du jury" and received her Ph.D. in Philosophy at the University of Paris X-Nanterre with the thesis La raison à l'épreuve de la Catastrophe: une Leçon de Ténèbres, with as supervisors Prof. C. Chalier and Prof. M. Abensour. In 2002-2003, she taught Philosophy of Judaism at the Department of Philosophy and the Center for Jewish Studies, University of the Mediterranean (Aix-en-Provence/Marseille) as professor with a temporary appointment (ATER) and, in 2003, she was awarded a prestigious two-year Post-doctorate grant at the Fondation pour la Memiore de la Shoah of Paris. In France, where she continued her activities as researcher, essayist, and translator, she was awarded the "Qualification" as a "Maître de Conférences" (in 2004, 2008 and 2012) and then she obtained, in Italy, the Abilitazione Scientifica Nazionale (in 2014 on Moral-Philosophy) as Associated Professor. From 2005 to 2009 she taught Philosophical Anthropology and Moral Philosophy in the Department of Philosophy at the University of Bologna as Tenure Track, by the “Return of brains” Ministerial Program. She lived in Bologna from 2004 until 2012.

At the Department of Philosophy, Sapienza University of Rome from 2010, she’s currently Associate Professor (from 2019) and teaches Philosophical Anthropology and Contemporary Moral French Philosophy (for Master’s Students). From 2018 she’s in the Phd. Cycle.

In 2019 she has been a Joyce Z. Greenberg Visiting Professor of Jewish Studies at Divinity School, The University of Chicago. In 2023 she obtained the Abilitazione Scientifica Nazionale (on Moral-Philosophy) as Full Professor.

She is a member of the restrain editorial board for journal Filosofia Morale/Moral Philosophy (Mimesis Journal, Milan) and of the scientific committee for journals Illusio (Le bord de l’eau, Caën), Studi Jaspersiani (Orthotes, Salerno), Paradosso (il Poligrafo, Padova), and until 2016 for Bamidbar. Journal for Jewish Thought and Philosophy and Théologiques (University of Montreal).



She is an Agreement Promoter for  Erasmus+ exchanges: with the Department of Philosophy of: Ecole Normale Superièrue (Paris), University of Paris-Nanterre, University of Strasbourg, University of Nantes, University of Caen, University of Bordeaux, University College Dublin (Dublin), and  the Département d’études hébraïques, INALCO, Paris. She also Agreement Promoter for exchanges with Saint Paul University (Ottawa) and with Sun Yan Sen University (Kaohsiung).    

From October 2022 she’s Academic Coordinator for Mobility  and Responsible Academic for Mobility at Department of Philosophy and Faculty of Arts and Humanities (Sapienza).  



As monographs she has published Le Bestiaire philosophique de Jacques Derrida (PUF, Paris 2022), The Twilight of reason. Benjamin, Adorno, Horkheimer and Levinas tested by the Catastrophe, (En. trans. by V. Aris, Academic Studies Press, Boston 2012 – original version Hermann, Paris 2007, Italian version, Giuntina, Florence 2014) and L’umano ritrovato. Saggio su Emmanuel Levinas (Marietti, Milan 2010).  She directed and edited collective volumes and monographic issues including: The nuclear power, a scientific and philosophical issue from 1945 to today (It-En, Mimesis, Jaspersiana, Milan 2020), Derrida-Levinas. An Alliance awaiting the political, (with Raphael Zagury-Orly, En-Fr., Mimesis International, 2018), Ebraismo al “femminile”. Percorsi diversi di intelletuali ebree del Novecento (Giuntina, Firenze 2017), Jewish Women and the Shoah, for Bamidbar. Journal for Jewish Thought and Philosophy (1/2013 Passagen, Wien), Tra Torah e Sophia: orizzonti e frontiere della Filosofia ebraica (Marietti, Milan 2011).