I am Lecturer in Medical Education and Philosophy at Norwich Medical School. I have background training in philosophy, social sciences and visual arts, and hold a PhD in Philosophy from the University of Warwick (UK) and Monash University (Australia).

Before joining UEA, I was based at the University of Bristol, where I held a British Academy Postdoctoral Fellowship (2021-2024). I have also been a Visiting Scholar at NYU (USA), an Early Career Fellow and an Associate Fellow at the Institute of Advanced Study (IAS) of the University of Warwick, a Postdoctoral Research Fellow in Philosophy at PUC-Rio (Brazil), and a Postgraduate Fellow at the European University Institute (EUI, Italy).

I specialise in practical philosophy and post-Kantian European philosophy. My research also explores the history of political and sociological thought, philosophy of medicine, aesthetics and art theory, and ancient philosophy and its receptions. I am particularly interested in theories of power, oppression and resistance, as well as ethical subject-formation and self-cultivation. My work is published in English, French, Portuguese, and Spanish.

My monograph On the Politics of the Living discusses the works of Foucault and Canguilhem, reopening the problem of the normative grounds of social criticism in order to reflect on political resistance. It analyzes notions of health and illness in the history of medicine, their political underpinnings and relevance for social and political theory. I am currently thinking about relations between listening and critique, as well as exploring intersections of medicine, politics, and the human sciences in Canguilhem. 

My research also explores the notion of 'philosophy as a way of life' and the presence of the Hellenistic tradition within modern philosophy and political thought. I have published a critical edition and translation of Jean-Marie Guyau’s The Ethics of Epicurus (co-edited with Keith Ansell-Pearson, Bloomsbury, 2021) and, together with Matthew Sharpe, I have translated and edited Pierre Hadot’s Selected Writings. Philosophy as Practice (Bloomsbury 2020).

I co-lead the Medical Humanities Research Network at Norwich Medical School.

I co-lead the Medical Humanities component in the Graduate Entry Medicine (GEM) programme. My teaching at the Medical School explores philosophical, ethical, political, and societal aspects of medicine, guided by reflective practice and critical thinking. I have previously led a core module of the MA in Medical and Health Humanities.

I also contribute to teaching and supervision at the Philosophy Department and often collaborate with the Interdisciplinary Institute for the Humanities. I have taught social and political philosophy and theory, history of philosophy, as well as ethics and its history, at different universities in Australia, Brazil, and the UK.

Supervision interests: Medical Humanities (philosophical approaches to medicine, health and illness; ethics); Social and Political Theory and Philosophy (biopolitics; critical theory; history of social and political thought); Post-Kantian European Philosophy (Foucault, Canguilhem, Nietzsche, historical epistemology); Philosophy as a Way of Life (Pierre Hadot, Epicureanism, receptions of ancient philosophy). I have supervised students working on issues of philosophy of medicine, social and political philosophy, resistance and artistic creation, and on authors such as Karl Marx, Frantz Fanon, Claude Lévi-Strauss, among others.