Andrea Gatti, Full Professor at the University of Bologna from 2023. Areas of research: modern and early twentieth-century European aesthetics, especially British, the aesthetic theories of the Frankfurt School and the philosophy of the image.
Prior academic qualifications
2018-2023
Associate Professor at the Dept. of Humanities, University of Ferrara.
2010-2018
Research Fellow (Permanent Position) at the Dept. of Humanities of the University of Ferrara.
Higher Education
2005
M.A. Faculté des Lettres of the Université de Fribourg (CH).
1990
PhD. University of Bologna
Fellowships and scholarships
2008-09
Two-year research grant Faculty of Humanities, University of Ferrara.
2005
Two-year research grant Faculty of Humanities, University of Milan.
2003
Two-year research grant Faculty of Humanities, University of Milan.
2000
One-year research grant Dip.to Philosophical and Historical-Social Sciences, University of Udine.
1999
Fellowship Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei, in association with the British Academy.
Participation in national research groups
2020-
PRIN PNRR 2020. - Member of the research unit of the University of Milan within the Research Program of Relevant National Interest PRIN PNRR 2020: Compassion in action: theories of sympathy and the construction of otherness in the long eighteenth century.
2007-2009
PRIN 2007. - Member of the research unit of the University of Ferrara in the Research Program of Relevant National Interest PRIN 2007: David Hume. Text, context and interpretation.
2005-2007
PRIN 2005. - Member of the research unit of the University of Ferrara under the Research Program of Relevant National Interest PRIN 2005: British Philosophical Culture in the Late Seventeenth and Early Nineteenth Centuries.
2002-2004
PRIN 2002. - Member of the research unit of the University of Ferrara within the Research Program of Relevant National Interest PRIN 2002: The Philosophical Culture of the British Eighteenth Century.
Scientific memberships and partnerships
2024-
President of the Italian Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies
2020-
Member and scientific consultant of the NEVART research project “Neuroaesthetics of the vision of art”.
2009-
Member of the Società Italiana di Studi sul Secolo XVIII Italian Society of Studies on the 18th Century. Member of the Scientific Committee (from 2012-), Vice President and member of the Executive Committee (from 2016 to 2021).
2002-
Member of the Italian Society of Aesthetics. Member of the Board of Directors (2012-), Vice President (from 2018 to 2020) and Treasurer (from 2021-).
Management and participation in editorial committees of scientific journals
2023-
Deputy director (Deputy Editor) of the scientific journal "Studi di estetica" (Classe A Anvur).
2018-
Co-director and founder of the International Lexicon of Aesthetics.
2017-
Member of the Advisory Board (“Philosophy” section) of the publishing house Cambridge Scholars Publishing.
2016-2022
Director of the scientific magazine “I castelli di Yale online. Annali di filosofia” (formerly Deputy Director and Journal Manager from 2014 to 2016).
2015-
Co-director and founder of the magazine “Diciottesimo Secolo” (Classe A Anvur).
Journal Manager of the magazine "Studi di estetica" (Classe A Anvur).
2015-
Co-founder of the “L.I.E. Laboratorio interateneo di estetica”, as part of the Inter-University Master's Degree (Ferrara, Modena-Reggio Emilia, Parma).
2014-2016
Deputy director and Journal Manager of the scientific magazine “I castelli di Yale online. Annali di filosofia".
Achievement of national prizes and recognitions
2017
Funding of Basic Research Activities (FFABR) Anvur.
Main participations as a speaker at national and international scientific conferences (by invitation)
2024
Modena, University of Modena, Conference “Oltre la soglia. Prospettive filosofiche sul sublime e sul suo ruolo nell’educazione” (Istruzione e diletto. Estetiche e pratiche del sublime in età moderna).
Bari, University of Bari, Annual Conference of the Italian Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies “Stranieri nel Settecento. Immagini, relazioni, conflitti” (L’esotico sublime. Metafisica ed estetica della foreignness).
Oxford, Maison Française d’Oxford e All Souls College, bilateral Anglo-Italian conference «The Travelling Self», organized by Italian Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies and the British Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies (Travelogues and Fictional Self).
Frascati, Villa Falconieri, Participation as Session Director at the XXXIII National Conference of Doctorates in Philosophy for the section ‘Image and Landscape in Modern and Contemporary Aesthetics’.
2023
Roma, Università “La Sapienza” e Università “Tor Vergata”, World Conference of the International Society for Eighteenth Century Studies (The Rhetoric of Enlightenment and the Ancients: A Matter of Style).
(Online), Italian-Polish Seminar organized by the Società Italiana di Studi sul Secolo XVIII (The Italian Reception of Wladislaw Tatarkiewicz's Aesthetics).
2022
Trento, Università degli Studi, “Il concetto di ‘convenientia’. Tra Medioevo ed età moderna" (Finalità e bellezza. L’idea di convenientia nell’estetica del Settecento).
Milano, Università degli Studi, “Bernard Mandeville: vizi privati, pubblici benefici. Un dibattito settecentesco” (Logica e retorica in Mandeville. Le Osservazioni sulla Favola delle api di Francis Hutcheson).
2021
Trento, Università degli Studi, Logica e retorica in Mandeville. Le Osservazioni sulla Favola delle api di Francis Hutcheson, “Estetica della Forma” (Philosophy of graphic form).
2019
Modena, Università degli Studi, “Prometeo e dintorni. Filosofia e mito” (Prometeo e la poiesis, ovvero il genio e le sue contraddizioni).
2017
Ferrara, Biblioteca Ariostea, “Animal ridens. Filosofia e scienza del riso” (Egoismi e incongruenze. Teoria e pratica del riso in età moderna).
Ferrara, Università degli Studi, “Prometeo e dintorni. Filosofia e mito” (Prometeo e la poiesis, ovvero il genio e le sue contraddizioni)., “Le arti dell’illusione” (Le illusioni ritrovate. Per un’estetica della percezione artistica).
2016
Greencastle (Indiana, U.S.A.), DePauw University, Lectures on The Aesthetics of the Body, and The Great Beauty and Its Decay. An Aesthetic Survey.
2015
Camerino [mc], Università degli Studi, “Il nostro Novecento. Intellettuali e vita civile” (Bertrand Russell).
2014
Roma, The American Academy University & Koninklijk Nederlands Instituut, “Mandeville in Rome. Mandevillean Readings” (Bernard Mandeville's Aesthetics of Social Life).
2013
Ferrara, Università degli Studi, “Caratteri. Filosofia e arte dell’espressione” (Educazione estetica e carattere morale nel XVIII secolo).
Milan, Università degli Studi, “Estetica, etica e sapere enciclopedico. Attualità di Diderot” (Argomento del disegno e teorie della forma. Diderot e l’estetica dell’empirismo inglese).
Pavia, Università degli Studi, “Denis Diderot a trecento anni dalla nascita” (Il concetto del sensibile in Denis Diderot. Alcune questioni estetiche).
2012
Nürnberg, Friederich-Alexander Universität, “«New Ages, New Opinions». Shaftesbury in his World and Today” (The Aesthetic Mind. Stoic influences on Shaftesbury’s Thought).
2011
Graz, Institut für Geschichte, 13th International Congress for Eighteenth Century Studies (The Advancement of Taste. Future Time in Aesthetics).
York [uk], University of York, “The Marginal and the Mainstream in the Eighteenth Century” (Marginal Aesthetic Theories in Eighteenth-Century England).
2010
Roma, Università “La Sapienza”, International Seminar “Humean Readings 10”, Gruppo di Ricerca Nazionale sull’Illuminismo Britannico (The Humean Heritage in Eigtheenth-Century Aesthetics).
2009
Anacapri, Villa Orlandi, “Britain and Italy in the Long Eighteenth Century. Literary and Art Theories”, British Society for Eighteenth Century Studies and Società Italiana di Studi sul Secolo XVIII (A Dialogue Between the Deaf and the Dumb. Aesthetic Theories in England and Italy during the Eighteenth Century).
Odense, DK, Odense University, “The Body Work”, International research project ACUME2 “Interfacing Science and Humanities” (The Body as an Aesthetic Paradigm. Form, Function, Idea).
Academic and Institutional Committments
2022-2023
Delegate for the University of Ferrara in the Members' Assembly of the AlmaLaurea Consortium for the three-year period 2022-2024.
Member of the CRUI national commission of Orientation Delegates.
Responsible for teaching tutoring activities for the three-year degree course in Philosophy and Contemporary Society (L-5).
2021-2023
University Delegate for activities relating to Incoming and Outcoming Orientation of the University of Ferrara.
2020-2023
Member of the University Tutoring Commission of the University of Ferrara.
2017-2019
Member of the postgraduate training offer evaluation commission for the three-year period 2017-2019 at the University of Ferrara.
2016-2021
Delegate of the Rector for the Reinforcement, Development and Innovation of the University of Ferrara's actions regarding Incoming Orientation.
2016
Manager of the University of Ferrara programme within the "Internazionale" Festival.
2015-2023
Manager of the Academic Traineeship Activities within the Inter-University Master's Degree (Ferrara, Modena-Reggio Emilia, Parma) in Philosophy.
2015-2018
Operational Teacher and member of the Review Group of the Course of Study in Philosophical and Educational Sciences.
2012-2015
Head of International Tutoring for the Department of Humanities of the University of Ferrara.
2011-2023
Member of the Doctoral Research College in Humanities of the University of Ferrara.
2010-2012
Delegate for Orientation and Tutoring of the Department of Humanities of the University of Ferrara
Third Mission Activities and Public Engagement
2023
Bologna, Complesso del Baraccano, Sala Biagi, Presentation of the volume: P. Gozza, Musica e sensibilità. L’estetica musicale nel Settecento.
2022
Parma, Sala conferenze Stadio Tardini, Conference: Forma e azione. Estetica del gesto sportivo.
Ferrara, Teatro Verdi, Chairman: “La Ferrara internazionale di Aby Warburg: il ciclo dei mesi di Palazzo Schifanoia”.
2021
Ferrara, Biblioteca Ariostea, Conference: La Dialettica dell’Illuminismo di Horkheimer e Adorno.
2020
Ferrara, Biblioteca Ariostea, Conference: Disagio e Creatività.
2019
Ferrara, Biblioteca Ariostea, Conference: Il labirinto come metafora.
Parma, Lions Club, Conference: La bellezza diffusa. Forme di estetizzazione della vita contemporanea.
Ferrara, Liceo classico “Ariosto”, Lectures on: Il senso della bellezza: una questione cruciale dell’estetica d’età moderna (NEVART project, “Neuroestetica della visione dell’arte”).
2018
Ferrara, Biblioteca Ariostea, Presentation of the volume: F. Rossi, Il nuovo Caratteri e comunicazione visiva.
Ferrara, IIS “Luigi Einaudi”, Lectures: Come leggere il mondo contemporaneo delle immagini.
Ferrara, Galleria Cloister, Conference: Boldini e la moda, una questione (di) estetica.
2017
Ferrara, IIS “Luigi Einaudi”, Lectures: L’estetica diffusa. Siamo osservatori informati della cultura visiva contemporanea?
Rovigo, Rotary Club, Conference: Il dilemma del critico. Secessioni e altre metafore.
2016
Ferrara, Biblioteca Ariostea, Presentation of the volume: M. Bocchiola, Mai più come ti ho visto. Raccontare il mestiere di traduttore.
2015
Firenze, International Studies Institute, Presentation of the volume: La Masque de l’écriture (Genève, Droz, 2015).
2013
Ferrara, Biblioteca Ariostea, Conference: Finis Terrae: i margini del mondo. L’estetica del paesaggio in Michelangelo Antonioni.
Ferrara, Biblioteca Ariostea, Conference: Prendere posizione: il dovere del genio. Riflessioni su cultura e potere.
2012
Lamezia Terme (CZ), Teatro Politeama, Presentation of the volume: R. Gaetano, La Calabria nel viaggio pittoresco del Saint-Non.
Ferrara, Fondazione Ermitage Italia, Presentation of the volumes: La storia dell’arte (Milano, Bruno Mondadori, 2010).
2011
Soverato (CZ), Liceo scientifico “Guarasci”, Lecture: L’universo elegante. Arte e Scienza.
2010
Ferrara, Ridotto del Teatro Comunale, Presentation of the volume: Il canone infranto. Chardin e l’estetica del Settecento.
