About
Andréa is a final-year PhD candidate at the European Institute.
Andréa works at the intersection of phenomenology, political ontology, and aesthetics with ‘Europe’ as a philosophical object. Her thesis, entitled “Assuming the Universal: Eurocentrism and the Aesthetic Logic” explores the ontology of Eurocentrism in its interrelations with universality and universalism. She formulates an ontology of Eurocentrism from phenomenological and aesthetic discourses on Europe and argues that this ontology is underpinned by a “logic of inclusion”, which operates an ordering of bodies (animalised, racialised, and gendered bodies in particular) according to the exemplarity of Europe. She then attempts to retrieve another logic that would reassert the radical equality of all sensible bodies, which she constructs by re-working Merleau-Ponty’s and Rancière’s aesthetic politico-ontologies.
Andréa holds a bachelor’s degree from Sciences Po Paris and a dual master’s degree between Sciences Po Paris and the LSE in European studies. She received the prizes for Best Dissertation and Best Overall Performance in her programme. Before joining the European Institute, she worked as a teaching and research assistant at the College of Europe (Bruges), in the Politics Department and the General Studies programme, and as a research officer at the Fondation abbé Pierre, an organization fighting against social exclusion and poverty in France and Europe.
Andréa’s research is funded by an ESRC scholarship.
Academic supervisors: Professor Simon Glendinning and Professor Jonathan White
Key Expertise:
- Philosophy of Europe
- Democratic aesthetics
- Phenomenology
- Feminist and de-/postcolonial philosophy