We’re delighted to welcome Dr Rossella De Bernardi to the Department of Philosophy as a Postdoctoral Research Fellow, funded by Research Ireland.
Rossella’s fellowship project, Emotions and Injustice: An Egalitarian Theory of Affective Rights and Wrongs (2025–2027), explores the relationship between social processes and individual emotional life, with a focus on egalitarian theories of social justice and Public Reason Liberalism.
Before joining Trinity, Rossella held research positions at the University of Genoa and the University of Warwick, and taught at King’s College London and the University of Leeds. Her work has appeared in leading journals including the Journal of Social Philosophy and the Journal of Ethics and Social Philosophy.
She holds a PhD (Political Philosophy) from the University of York, an MA (Philosophy) from the University of Pavia, and a BA (Philosophy) from the University of Genoa.
Recent publications include:
- “Public Reason and Food Policy,” Critical Review of International Social and Political Philosophy (2025)
- “From Climate Change to Sweatshop Labor: Do ‘Structural’ Injustices Exist, After All?,” Philosophy and Public Issues (2024)
- “Dilemmas of Dating: the Case of Aprioristic Sexual Lookism,” Journal of Social Philosophy (2024)