I research and study the intersections of performance studies, biopolitics, anthropocene studies and psychoanalytic theory. My essays on digital cultures, critical theory, film, theatre, contemporary art, activism and politics have been published in peer-reviewed journals such as Theatre Research International, Performance Research, Performance Paradigm, About Performance, and Cinema: Journal of Philosophy & the Moving Image; and in many edited collections.

I regularly lecture at international symposia, conferences and institutions. I earned my PhD from Trinity College Dublin in 2012, and I was awarded the International Diploma in Jungian Psychoanalysis for Adults, Adolescents, and Children by the C.G. Jung Institut, Zürich. I am a member of The Anthropocene Atlas of Geneva (TAAG) Advisory Research Group and a member of the organising and scientific committee of the international and interdisciplinary academic and artistic network '(t)ERROR on Tour'.

Upcoming events and lectures: During the Winter Semester 2024-2025 I will be teaching at CG Jung Institute. To attend my lectures and seminars, please register at the following link: : https://junginstitut.ch/en/Events/Public-events

'Staging the Wreck of the Unbelievable. Performing Ideology: Imaginary Surplus, Alienation and Anxiety' in Performance Research, Vol. 24, No. 5, 2019, pp. 21-26  - available at https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/13528165.2019.1671709

'Necropolitics of Inclusion. Performance in Times of Migratory Crisis' in Comunicazioni Sociali - 1. Playing Inclusion (2019) pp. 52-62 - available at http://digital.casalini.it/10.26350/001200_000043

'Paradigms of Participation Wim Delvoye and Wafaa Bilal's Tattooing Performances' in Performance Research, Vol. 1 6, No.  4 , pp . 34-45 - available at https://doi.org/10.1080/13528165.2011.606048

'Documentary in the Age of Digital Biopolitics: Catfish & the "Aesthetics of Amphibology"' in CINEMASCOPE-Independent Film Journal , Issue 17 - Documentary in the Age of Digital Biopolitics, January-June 2012 - available at academia.edu.

'"Biopolitics on Screen": Aernout Mik’s Moving-Image Installations' in Cinema: Journal of Philosophy and the Moving Image (2011) No. 2 , pp. 116-140.
'"Gestures of Happiness" in Sophie Calle's Trilogy of Desire' in Performance Paradigm (2011) , No. 7, pp. 1-27 - available at academia.edu.

'Spectator On-Duty: Teatro del Lemming’s "Audiencing Trouble"' in About Performance (2010), No. 10, pp. 153-161 - available at informit.com.

'Language under Attack: The Iconoclastic Theatre of Societas Raffaello Sanzio' in Theatre Research International, Vol. 34, No. 1 (2009) pp. 50–65 - available at https://doi.org/10.1017/S0307883308004239.

'Performances of Exposure: Santiago Sierra's Ethical Interruptions' in The Routledge Companion to Theatre and Politics, edited by Peter Eckersall & Helena Grehan, 2019.

''The Biopolitics of ISIS' Iconoclastic Propaganda'' in War and Theatrical Innovation, edited by  Victor Emeljanow, Palgrave, 2017, pp 101-118.

'"Where all the Lines of the Map Converge": Werner Herzog’s Ekstatic Imagination and Performative Thresholds' in Travel and Imagination, edited by Garth Lean & Russell Staiff, Routledge, 2016, pp. 139-148.

'ID:entity: The Subject's Own Taking Place' in Performance, Identity, and the Neo-Political Subject, edited by Fintan Walsh & Matthew Causey, co-authored with Matthew Causey, Routledge, 2013, pp. 33-49.

'"Irish Biopolitics and National (Un)Consciousness: Gerard Mannix Flynn’s 'Public Performance of Inclusion"' in Embodied Consciousness: Performance Technologies, edited by Jade Rosina McCutcheon & Barbara Sellers-Young, Palgrave, 2013, pp. 129-144.

'Challenging Patriarchal Imagery: Amanda Coogan’s Performance Art' in Crossroads: Performance Studies and Irish Culture, edited by Sara Brady & Fintan Walsh, Palgrave, 2009, pp. 129-144.

'Echoists of the 'Anthrobscene' - We Better Look Up!', II International Conference Philosophy and Film, Skopje, Northern Macedonia (25-26 May 2023)

'Rafael Lozano-Hemmer's Bio Installations, Technology, Art and the Posthuman: The End or a New Beginning for Humanism?, John Cabot University, Rome, Italy (13-14 May 2023)

'How the Unconscious Performs Grief and Loss in Times of Pandemic Catastrophes', Performing Pandemic Grief: the Arts of Losing, Birkbeck Center for Contemporary, London, UK (17 November 2022)

'Towards an Aural Cosmology of the Anthropocene: Ways of Listening to and Learning from "Nonlife"', with Robert A Saunders, Anthropology and Geography: Dialogues Past, Present and Future at British Museum/ SOAS University of London/Royal Geographical Society, London, UK (September 18, 2020)

'About the Potentiality of Anthropocenic Ruination', Dimensions of Political Ecology Conference (DOPE 2020), University of Kentucky, USA (27-29 February 2020 )

'Sounding the Anthropo(s)cene: The Passion of the Geos in Contemporary Planetary Politics', with Robert A. Saunders, Touching Sound: Passion and Global Politics, Aga Khan University, London, UK (11 October 2019)

'"Eco-iconoclasm": The Trouble with Art in the Anthropocene', The Trouble with Art: Philistinism, Iconoclasm, and Scepticism of Art in Anthropology, Berlin, Germany (21 September 2019)

'Children of Men: Anthropocene’s "Père-version"; Patriarchy's Demise' at the 9th Philosophical Film Festival (PFF) in Skopje, Macedonia (15 May 2019)

'"A Silence that Matters": Art's Transformative Potentiality in the Age of Ecocide', Sustainable Geography – Geographies of Sustainability, 8th Nordic Geographers Meeting, Trondheim, Norway (17 June 2019)

'"Anthropocenic Subjugated Knowledge(s)': A Plea to Perform Politically, and Ethically Otherwise', Trinity College Dublin, Ireland (25 March 2019)

'Reflections on Interspecies Diplomacies: What the More-Than-Human Can Teach Us' invited speaker at Mali Weil's exhibition The Mountain of Advanced Dreams, Schloss Thun, Switzerland, 28 Septemper 2023
https://www.artchateau.org/2023-schloss-thun
Flyer of the exhibition

'Psicologia del lock down: la ricerca del tempo (e dello spazio) perduto', interview on "Panorama", 30 December 2020
https://www.academia.edu/44807690/Alla_ricerca_del_tempo_e_dello_spazio_perduto

'Lockdown e dintorni, brevi note su una biopolitica dei consumi', article on "Mark-Up", 16 November 2020
https://www.mark-up.it/lockdown-e-dintorni-brevi-note-su-una-biopolitica-dei-consumi/

'Fase 3: la ripartenza del Real Estate. Cosa ci attende?', invited speaker at the Webinar organised by Engel & Völkers Commercial Milano and Rödl & Partner, 2 July 2020
Article: https://www.mark-up.it/il-real-estate-riparte-cercando-nuovi-equilibri-quali-scenari-per-la-fase-3/
Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RM5wNpw3lDE

'La Sandplay therapy", invited speaker at Adoption Air: la voce dell'adozione, 21 May 2020
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aNwmVnmP30I

"DiSTILLed LIFE with(in) the Anthropocene," Contemporary Debates on the Ecological Crisis, Migros Museum, Zürich, Switzerland (18 January 2021)

Link: https://vimeo.com/527698122

"Towards an Aural Cosmology of the Anthropocene: Ways of Listening to and Learning from 'Nonlife'" (with Robert A Saunders), Anthropology and Geography: Dialogues Past, Present and Future at British Museum/ SOAS University of London/Royal Geographical Society, London, UK (18 September 2020)

'Children of Men: Anthropocene’s "Père-version"; Patriarchy's Demise' at the 9th Philosophical Film Festival (PFF) in Skopje, Northern Macedonia (15 May 2019)