Alessandro Giovannelli
Degrees
- Ph.D., University of Maryland, College Park
- M.A., University of Maryland, College Park
- B.A. and M.A., University of Florence (with residencies at Birkbeck College, University College London, and Middlesex University)
Teaching interests: philosophy of art, especially film, literature, and the visual arts; philosophical psychology; film criticism
Research interests: intersections between art and ethics (especially the relationships between artistic and ethical values); mechanisms of engagement with narrative characters (e.g., empathy, sympathy, and identification); film and philosophy; depiction and portraiture
Honors: Jones Lecture Award for Excellence in Teaching and Scholarship; Lindback Distinguished Teaching Award
Publications: The edited collection, Aesthetics: The Key Thinkers (second edition, 2021); journal articles in The Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism, The British Journal of Aesthetics, Philosophia, Philosophy of Literature, Film and Philosophy, Ethical Perspectives, and The History of Philosophy Quarterly; invited essays and reviews in Mind, The Journal of Value Inquiry, the Wiley-Blackwell Companion to Aesthetics, and The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy; invited essays in Noël Carroll, ed., The Aesthetics, Poetics, and Philosophy of Narrative (2009) and Hans Maes, ed., Portraits and Philosophy (2020)