Anna Boncompagni is currently Associate Professor at the University of California, Irvine, and Adjunct Visiting Professor at the University of Bologna (Winter 2025).
Formazione
PhD in Philosophy and Theory of Humanities, University of Roma Tre, 2014
MA in Theoretical Philosophy (with honors), University of Florence, 2010
BA and MA in Communication Studies (with honors), University of Siena, 1998
Carriera accademica
Adjunct visiting professor, University of Bologna (2025-)
Associate professor, University of California, Irvine (2023-)
Assistant professor, University of California, Irvine (2019-2023)
Chancellor’s ADVANCE postdoctoral fellow, University of California, Irvine (2018-2019)
Attività didattica
University of Bologna: Philosophy of language
University of California, Irvine:
Introduction to Philosophy (General Education)
History of Contemporary Philosophy (Lower Division)
Social Epistemology (Upper Division)
Feminist Epistemology (Upper Division)
History of Contemporary Philosophy (Grad seminar)
Epistemology (Grad seminar)
Selected publications
Books
Wittgenstein on Forms of Life. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2022
Wittgenstein and Pragmatism. On Certainty in the Light of Peirce and James. London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2016
Wittgenstein. Lo sguardo e il limite. Milan: Mimesis, 2012
Recent articles and book chapters (from 2021)
“Hermeneutical Injustice and Bisexuality; Towards New Conceptual Tools”, Hypatia, 2014, First View, pp. 1-19, DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/hyp.2024.28
“Forms of Life and Linguistic Change. The Case of Trans Communities”, Philosophies, 2023, 8 (3): 50. https://doi.org/10.3390/philosophies8030050
“Between Captivity and Liberation: The Role of Pictures in Wittgenstein”, in Wittgensteinian Exercises. Aesthetic and Ethical Transformations, ed. L. Guidi, Paderborn: Fink/Brill, 2023
“Wrong Hinges”, in Perspectives on Moral Certainty, eds. C. Eriksen, J. Hermann, N. O’Hara and N. Pleasants, London: Routledge, 2023
“Religious Hinges: Some Historical Precursors”, Topoi, 41 (5): 955–965, 2022
“Prejudice in Testimonial Justification: A Hinge Account”, Episteme, 1–18, 2021, doi: https://doi.org/10.1017/epi.2021.40
“LGBTQ Identities and Hermeneutical Injustice at the Border”, Humana.Mente – Journal of Philosophical Studies, 14 (39): 151-174, 2021
“Sense and Common Sense in William James”, in The Jamesian Mind, ed. S. Marchetti, London and New York: Routledge, 2021
Attività istituzionali e incarichi accademici
Placement Director, University of California, Irvine (2024-)
Colloquium Coordinator, University of California, Irvine (2021-2024)
Appartenenza a comitati scientifici e editoriali
Philosophica, book series published by Edizioni Ca’ Foscari (University of Venice, Italy), Advisory Board member (2023-present)
European Journal of Pragmatism and American Philosophy (ISSN 2036-4091), Managing Editor (2019-2013)
Cognitio – Revista de Filosofia, São Paulo, Brazil (ISSN: 2316-5278), Editorial Board member (2016-present)
University of Iowa Tractatus Map Project (http://tractatus.lib.uiowa.edu/ ), Advisory Board member (2016-present)
