Federica Gregoratto is Visiting Associate Professor of Philosophy with a focus on Practical Philosophy at the University of Lucerne since September 2024. From April 2023 to August 2024, she was guest professor of Social Philosophy and Anthropology at the Free University of Berlin. She studied philosophy at the Universities of Venice and Frankfurt am Main (M.A. 2008, Dr. phil. 2012).

From 2012 to 2013, she was a postdoctoral fellow at Ca’ Foscari University of Venice, and from 2013 to 2015, she was a postdoctoral fellow at the Excellence Cluster "The Formation of Normative Orders" at Goethe University Frankfurt. From 2015 to 2022, she was a research associate in the Department of Philosophy at the University of St. Gallen, where she completed her habilitation. From 2022 to 2023, she was a guest professor at the University of Konstanz, and in 2019, she was a visiting scholar at the New School for Social Research in New York.

Her research interests lie in the areas of Social Philosophy, Feminist Philosophy, Critical Theory, Philosophy of Love and Emotions, Pragmatism, and Psychoanalysis. She has published articles in English, Italian, and German, some of which have been translated into French, Spanish, and Portuguese. She has written a book on Jürgen Habermas, edited a critical edition of a book by John Dewey, and co-edited collections of essays. Her latest book is titled Love Troubles: A Philosophy of Eros (New York, Columbia University Press, 2024).

Currently, she is working on two projects: the first is dedicated to a social-critical philosophy of psychic suffering, aiming in particular to understand depression as a form of "affective injustice"; the second examines potential German and English (early) Romantic contributions to contemporary debates on recognition theory.

She writes a column for the Italian online magazine Le Parole e Le Cose (“L’amore ai tempi del nineralismo”), where she discusses love relationships, sexuality, fiction, films, and politics. In general, she likes to contribute to "public philosophy", when possible.

Publications and Public Philosophy PD Dr. Federica Gregoratto