Caterina Diotto is an academic researcher in Philosophy. Her work lies at the intersection of Aesthetics, Ecology, and Political Philosophy.
She has been Lecturer of Aesthetics at the DIA – Department of Engineering and Architecture, Università degli Studi di Trieste.
Caterina has been a Junior Fellow under the DFG (Deutsch Forschungsgemeinschaft) maxi-project “Jewish Scepticism”, Maimonides Centre for Advanced Studies, PI: Professor Giuseppe Veltri (Universität Hamburg) – DFG-FOR 2311.
She has been invited as seminar leader at the RETE per la Filosofia e gli Studi Umanistici and Società Italiana di Filosofia FVG’s Winter School, for the academic years 2021-2022; 2022-2023.
Caterina earned her PhD in Philosophy in December 2021 at Università degli Studi di Verona, Italy.
During her PhD, she has been hired for three years as Teaching Assistant for Aesthetics at Università degli Studi di Verona, Department of Human Sciences. Academic years 2018-2019; 2019-2020; 2020-2021.
Publications and reaserch outcomes
In 2024, her first monography, Mythos, or the Relationship between Novel and Truth. For a Feminist Theory of the Novel in Dialogue with Lukács and Benjamin, was published. The study proposes a feminist rethinking of the characteristics of the Novel through a critical engagement with Benjamin and Lukács.
She has published several scientific articles and presented her research in many conferences, both in Italy and abroad.
She has co-edited three collective volumes: Under almost Infinte Forms. Narratives between Literature, Philosophy, Theater and Cinema (Mimesis, Milan 2021); Forming to Transform. For a Pedagogy of Imagination (Mimesis, Milan 2022); The Feminist Revolution. Theoretical perspectives and political practices (Mimesis, Milan 2024).
She has been co-organizer of the International Walter Benjamin Workshop 2022 – GEMEINSCHAFT/Community in Walter Benjamin’s Philosophy with the Department of Human Sciences (Università degli Studi di Verona), the Walter Benjamin Archiv (Akademie der Künste, Berlin) and the Frankfurt Benjamin Lectures.
Caterina has been co-organizer of the International Walter Benjamin Workshop 2020‘s Re-reading Walter Benjamin’s Critique of Violence. A prelude to POLITICS/Politik in Walter Benjamin’s Philosophy with the Department of Human Sciences (Università degli Studi di Verona), the Walter Benjamin Archiv (Akademie der Künste, Berlin) and the Frankfurt Benjamin Lectures.
Since 2017, she has been a member of Diotima’s Community, an historical hub of Feminist italian Philosophy working in Verona since 1983 on the Theory of the Sexual Difference.
Caterina Diotto serves on the scientific committees of the journals Filosofia.0 and Per Amore del Mondo. She has been external referee for the journals Il pensiero, Filosofia Morale/Moral Philosophy, Odradek. Studies in Philosophy of Literature, Aesthetics, and Theory of Cognition, and Philosophy Kitchen.
She is a member of Società Italiana di Estetica, Società Filosofica Italiana – sezione Friuli Venezia Giulia, Associazione italiana Walter Benjamin and the International Walter Benjamin Society.
I condemn the genocide that the State of Israel is currently perpetrating against Gaza and the Palestinian people. I call for an immediate ceasefire, the return of occupied territories, the international recognition of the State of Palestine and the criminal prosecution of those who have led and carried out these crimes against humanity, in accordance with international law and the official demands of the International Court of Justice and the United Nations Commission.
Nobody is free until Palestine is free.
Caterina Diotto 