Phd in PHILOSOPHY

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STEFANO VELOTTI
Curriculum Vitae

Stefano Velotti
Full Professor of Aesthetics
Department of Philosophy
Sapienza – University of Rome

Orcid code: 0000-0002-9421-0257
E-mail: stefano.velotti@uniroma1.it
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I. Education
1989–1992: PhD in Aesthetics, University of Bologna (inter-university consortium with Sapienza University of Rome and the state universities of Perugia, Turin, and Milan). Supervisor: Prof. E. Garroni; co-supervisor: Prof. F. Calvo. Dissertation title: Sapienti e bestioni. Saggio sull’ignoranza, il sapere e la poesia in Giambattista Vico.
1979–1984: Degree in Philosophy, “La Sapienza” University, Rome. Supervisor: Prof. Emilio Garroni; co-supervisor: Prof. T. De Mauro. Thesis title: Adolf Loos e il problema dell’ornamento. Final grade: 110/110 cum laude, with recommendation for publication.
1979: Classical high-school diploma obtained at the “T. Tasso” Classical Lyceum, Rome.

II. Academic career
2019 (1 March–present): Full Professor of Aesthetics (SSD M-FIL/04).
2013 (5 December): National Scientific Qualification (ASN 2012) for Full Professorship, competition sector 11/C4, SSD M-FIL/04 (Aesthetics).
December 2011 – February 2019: Associate Professor of Aesthetics, Department of Philosophy, Sapienza – University of Rome.
December 1996 – December 2011: Researcher in Aesthetics, Department of Philosophy, Sapienza – University of Rome.
1994–1996: Assistant Professor, Yale University, Dept. of Italian Studies. Confirmed until 2000; resigned in December 1996 to take up a Researcher position at Sapienza – University of Rome, Department of Philosophical and Epistemological Studies.

III. Grants, fellowships and study periods abroad
November 2017: Award of “Basic Research Activities Funding” (FFABR).
1996 (January–December): “Morse Fellowship”, Yale University, New Haven, CT, U.S.A.
1995 (July–August): “Griswold Fellowship”, Yale University, New Haven, CT, U.S.A.
1993 (April–August): Visiting Scholar, Department of Philosophy, Emory University, Atlanta, GA, U.S.A.
1990–1991: Visiting Scholar, Program for Interdisciplinary Studies, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, U.S.A.
1984: Scholarship from the Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs for a three‑month research stay at the Loos Archive, Albertina, Vienna, Austria.

IV. Teaching
2019–present: As Full Professor, teaching Bachelor’s degree courses, Master’s degree courses in English, and doctoral seminars at the Department of Philosophy, Sapienza – University of Rome.
2014: Speroni Chair Visiting Professor, first quarter, University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA).
2013: Speroni Chair Visiting Professor, third quarter, University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA).
2011–2018: As Associate Professor, teaching Bachelor’s and Master’s degree courses and doctoral seminars at the Department of Philosophy, Sapienza – University of Rome.
2005–2011: As Researcher, entrusted with teaching “History of Aesthetics” at the Department of Philosophical and Epistemological Studies, Faculty of Philosophy, Sapienza – University of Rome.
2006–2007: Adjunct Professor, University of Ferrara, Department of Architecture, course in Aesthetics.
1997–2005: As Researcher, seminars and teaching modules in Aesthetics at the Department of Philosophical and Epistemological Studies, Faculty of Philosophy, “La Sapienza” University of Rome.
1999, 3 April–16 June: Associate Visiting Professor, University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB), undergraduate and graduate courses, French and Italian Department.
1994–1996: Winner of the competition for Assistant Professor at Yale University, Department of Italian Studies, teaching undergraduate and graduate courses. Resigned in December 1996 to take up a position at the Department of Philosophical and Epistemological Studies, Sapienza – University of Rome.
1993 (autumn quarter): Visiting Assistant Professor, Stanford University, Department of French and Italian, undergraduate and graduate courses.
1993 (autumn quarter): Visiting Assistant Professor, University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), Department of Italian, undergraduate and graduate courses.

V. Other academic roles
February 2019–present: Member of the Technical-Scientific Council, DigiLab, Sapienza – University of Rome.
2019–2021: Coordinator of the PhD Program in Philosophy, Sapienza – University of Rome.
2016–2022: Senior Fellow, School for Advanced Studies (SSAS), Sapienza – University of Rome.
2014–2022: Member of the Executive Board of the Museum-Laboratory of Contemporary Art (MLAC), Sapienza – University of Rome.
2014–2017: Member of the Teaching Quality Committee (GAQ), Department of Philosophy, Sapienza – University of Rome.
2013–present: Co-editor (with Prof. E. Spinelli) of the Philosophy series of Sapienza Università Editrice (SUE).
2013–present: Academic coordinator of the bilateral agreement within the European LLP-Erasmus Program for the Department of Philosophy/Faculty of Arts and Humanities, Sapienza – University of Rome, with the University of Vienna.
2010–present: Member of the Academic Board of the PhD Program in Philosophy, Department of Philosophy, Sapienza – University of Rome.
2010–present: Coordinator of the Permanent Seminar in Aesthetics for the PhD Program in Philosophy, Department of Philosophy, Sapienza – University of Rome.
2008–2011: Member of the Department Council (Department of Philosophy, Sapienza – University of Rome).
2008–2009: Member of the Academic Board of the PhD Program “Design of Space and Furniture Product”, Faculty of Architecture, Sapienza – University of Rome.

VI. Evaluations, scholarly societies, journal collaborations
2024: ERC Consolidator Grant Panel Member of the ERC Peer Review Panels, SH5.
2023–present: Member of the Scientific Committee of the series “Andersiana”, Mimesis, Milan.
2022: ERC Consolidator Grant Panel Member of the ERC Peer Review Panels, SH5.
2018–present: Member of the Advisory Board of the journal “Postfactum: A Transdisciplinary Journal”.
2018–present: Member of the Scientific Committee of the philosophy series “Esperienze dell’estetico”, Mimesis, Milan.
2018–present: Member of the Scientific Committee of the philosophy series “I libri del laboratorio”, Edizioni Efesto, Rome.
2017–2018: Remote referee for Horizon 2020 projects, ERCEA ADG SH5.
2017–present: Honorary member of the philosophical association “Syzetesis”.
2016: Research quality evaluator (VQR 2011–2014) for competition sector 11/C4.
2015–present: Member of the Scientific Committee of “The Bridge – Book Award” for non-fiction (U.S. Embassy – Casa delle Letterature, Rome).
2013–present: Member of the Scientific Committee of the philosophy series “Forme del possibile”, Mimesis, Milan.
2012–present: Member of the Scientific Committee of the journal “Filosofia.it”.
2011: Research quality evaluator (VQR 2004–2010) for competition sector 11/C4.
2009–present: Referee for the journal “California Italian Studies”.
2008–present: Member of the Scientific Committee and referee of “Rivista di estetica”.
2008–present: President of the scholarly association “Cattedra internazionale Emilio Garroni” (CiEG).
2004–present: Member of the Italian Society for Analytic Philosophy (SIFA).
2001–present: Member of the Italian Society of Aesthetics (SIE).
1995–1999: Fellow of Ezra Stiles College, Yale University.

VII. Scientific responsibility for research projects
2024–2026: Principal Investigator for the University Research Project (“medium projects”), Artistic Practices, Aesthetic Experience, and Common Sense.
2022–2024: Principal Investigator for the University Research Project (“medium projects”), (Fuori)Controllo. Conseguenze involontarie, conseguenze inattese ed effetti secondari desiderabili delle pratiche sociali, estetiche e scientifiche.
2019–2021: Principal Investigator for the University Research Project (“medium projects”), Atlante delle forme di vita urbane (funding awarded: €14,600 + research grant €23,787).
2018–2020: Principal Investigator for the University Research Project (“large projects”), Urban Forms of Life: Affective, Aesthetic, and Moral (funding awarded: €26,000, 20/11/2017).
2015–2018: Scientific coordinator of the “University Research” project Quale cultura per la contemporaneità? Una ricerca estetico-filosofica (funding awarded: €31,450, including a research grant).
2011–2013: Scientific coordinator of the “University Research” project Metarappresentazioni (funding awarded: €2,500).

VIII. Brief description of research activities
In addition to the classical topics of “analytic” and “continental” aesthetics (the status of sensibility, the problem of the meaning of experience, the status of art, the nature of judgment, relations between art, society and politics, and relations between aesthetics and epistemology, etc.), he is interested in the philosophical and socio-political problems connected with contemporary art and culture and with new media.
His scholarly work follows a twofold path: on the one hand, it focuses on the roots of modernity, in particular Vico and Kantian philosophy; on the other, it engages with contemporary debates (especially philosophical research in relation to the arts, new media, literature, etc.).
His interests, centered on aesthetics, intersect ethical, social and political issues, both in the “continental” and in the “analytic” philosophical traditions.
Keywords: aesthetics, control, visual arts, philosophy and literature, aesthetics of new media, philosophy of photography, image, imagination, illusion, aesthetic judgment.