I am Lecturer in Medical Education and Philosophy at Norwich Medical School, where I co-lead the Medical Humanities component within the Graduate Entry Medicine (GEM) programme. My teaching explores philosophical and societal aspects of medicine and medical practice (including history and philosophy of medicine, medical power and institutions, notions of health and illness, critical approaches to care, norms and normality, social exclusion, among others). I have also led a core module in the MA in Medical and Health Humanities, with a strong focus on philosophy and society.

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 at PUC-Rio (Brazil), and a Postgraduate Fellow at the European University Institute (EUI, Italy). In the last thirteen years, I have taught philosophy, social and political theory at different universities in Australia, Brazil, and the UK.

I hold a PhD in Philosophy from the University of Warwick and Monash University (Australia). I specialise in Post-Kantian European philosophy, particularly social and political philosophy and theory (especially twentieth century French philosophy, with a strong focus on Michel Foucault and Georges Canguilhem. My work also explores the works of nineteenth century figures such as Friedrich Nietzsche and Jean-Marie Guyau). The creation and critique of modes of living is one of the focal points of my research. Centering on the issue of normativity, I seek to provide an account of account of agency based on a critical philosophy of life and norms. I am particularly concerned with issues related to critique in different domains of experience, from politics to health, passing through artistic creation and technology. One of the guiding threads of my work is the philosophical examination of medicine and its historical and social aspects. I am currently thinking about relations between listening and critique, taking Foucault's work as a starting point, as well as exploring intersections of medicine, politics, and the "human sciences" in Georges Canguilhem. I have also been developing work on Canguilhem's views on life, technique and technology. 

My recent monograph On the Politics of the Living discusses the works of Foucault and Canguilhem, reopening the problem of life and the normative grounds of social criticism in order to reflect on biopolitical resistance.

I am also interested in ancient philosophy and medicine, and the reception of the Hellenistic tradition within modern and contemporary philosophy. 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).

Supervision interests: Medical and Health Humanities (especially philosophical approaches to medicine, health and disease); Social and Political Theory (biopolitics; critical theory; history of social and political thought); Post-Kantian European Philosophy (philosophies of life and vitalism; structuralism and post-structuralism; historical epistemology); Philosophy as a Way of Life (Pierre Hadot, Epicureanism, modern and contemporary receptions of ancient philosophy); Philosophy and Epistemology of the Human Sciences; Philosophy of Technology.