Academic CV

Academic positions

• Kobe Institute for Atmospheric Studies (KOIAS), Kobe University, Japan · October 2024 — September 2026Specially Appointed Assistant Professor (特命助教), Comparative Literature and Philosophy
• Institute for Philosophical and Religious Studies, ZRS Koper, Slovenia · September 2023 — presentAssistant with PhD, Modern Languages and PhilosophyResearch in the programs Liminal Spaces: Areas of Cultural and Societal Cohabitation in the Age of Risk and Vulnerability and Philosophy, Poetry and the Arts, directed by Lenart Škof.
• Università degli Studi di Firenze · November 2025 — presentAffiliated Scholar (Cultore della Materia) in Japanese StudiesFORLILPSI, with Diego Cucinelli.

Education

• Harvard University · 2017 — 2023PhD, Comparative LiteratureDissertation: The Intention of the Spirit: Air, Breath, and Voice in European Poetry and Philosophy. Committee: John T. Hamilton, Jeffrey Schnapp, and Panagiotis Roilos.
• École des hautes études en sciences sociales (EHESS), Paris · 2021 — 2022Recherches doctorales libresDoctoral research with Emanuele Coccia, supported by a Krupp Foundation Dissertation Research Fellowship from Harvard’s Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies.
• Harvard University · May 2019MA, Comparative Literature
• University of Warwick · July 2017BA, First Class Honours, Philosophy and Literature

Research and teaching interests

European and Japanese philosophy and literature · poetry and poetics · breath and atmosphere · environmental humanities and ecocriticism · voice and language · ancient and late-antique philosophy · digital media and AI.

Monograph

• Routledge Critical Perspectives on Breath and Breathing · Routledge · under contractThe Intention of the Breath: From Breath to Spirit, from Intention to AtmosphereSeries editors Lenart Škof and Magdalena Górska. HB 9781041028949 · EB 9781003626930 · PB 9781041041245.

Peer-reviewed articles

• Khôra: Genealogies, special issue of Angelaki: Journal of the Theoretical Humanities · accepted, subject to peer review“Voice as Khôra: Agamben, Nishitani, and the Taking-Place of Things.”Planned for issue 33.5 (2028), edited by Nicholas Birns and Marina Christodoulou, with book republication planned for 2029.Open  →
• Sophia 65.2 (2026), 293–312 · open access · DOI 10.1007/s11841-025-01095-5“Seneca’s Natural Questions, Book II: The Oldest Extant Account of the Stoic Conception of the Intention of the Air.”Open  →
• Finzioni 4.8 (2024), 123–139 · open access · DOI 10.6092/issn.2785-2288/21408 · online 28 February 2025 · IT“Il vento, la voce, il nichilismo: Giorgio Caproni e il dibattito filosofico italo-francese sulla voce.”Open  →
• Monitor ISH: Journal for the Humanities and Social Sciences XXVI (2024), 48–62“Negating Platonism: Reversing Platonism in Patočka and Deleuze.”
• Poligrafi 28.111/112 (2023), 73–120 · open access · DOI 10.35469/poligrafi.2023.398“Intentio Spiritus: The Materialist, Pneumatological Origins of Intention in Augustine.”Open  →
• The Journal of Italian Philosophy 5 (2022), 1–24“From Voice to Pneuma and Back: Italian Pneumatologies Against Derrida’s Grammatology.”Open  →

Invited article

• Contemporary and Applied Philosophy (CAP) 17 · 2026“Kireji, Caesura, Atmosphere: A Preliminary Cross-Cultural and Philosophical Comparison.”Developed from the invited lecture at the Society for Applied and Contemporary Philosophy’s 2025 Annual Symposium.

Book chapters

• Somaesthetics of Atmosphere · Studies in Somaesthetics 11 · Brill · 2027 · chapter 7, from p. 141 · open access“Stimmung, Nerves, and Atmosphere: Towards a Somaesthetic Understanding of Poetry.”Open  →
• Handbook of Critical Respiratory Studies: Breath and Air in Humanities and Social Sciences · Springer · online first 25 June 2026 · DOI 10.1007/978-3-031-75780-8_60-1Alberto Parisi and Kalpana Subramanian, “Introduction: Respiratory Thought and Practice in Literature and the Arts.”Open  →
• Handbook of Critical Respiratory Studies · Springer · online first 5 March 2026 · DOI 10.1007/978-3-031-75780-8_32-1“Poetry and Breath: The Role of Air in Modern European Poetry.”Open  →
• Philosophy of Breath: A Critical Anthology · Bloomsbury Academic · 2027“Res Intensa: Augustine, Descartes, and the Inclusive Exclusion of Breath.”

Scholarly translations

• PMLA 137.3 (2022), 489–496 · Criticism in Translation · IT → ENIntroduction and translation of Giorgio Agamben, “The ‘Dark Night’ of Juan de la Cruz”Open  →
• Philosophy of Breath: A Critical Anthology · Bloomsbury Academic · 2027 · FR → ENEmanuele Coccia, “Cosmology of Breath”

Reviews

• MLN 133.5 (2018), 1439–1442 · Comparative Literature issue · DOI 10.1353/mln.2018.0094Review-essay of Giorgio Agamben, What Is Philosophy?Open  →
• Eirene. Studia Graeca et Latina 61 · 2025 · 286–287Review of Burkhard Fehr and Panagiotis Roilos, eds., Mythogenesis, Interdiscursivity, Ritual: Studies Presented to Demetrios YatromanolakisThe reviewed volume is Brill’s Studies in Intellectual History 354, Leiden: Brill, 2024, pp. xv + 484.
• Sofia Philosophical Review XVII.2 · 2024Review of Alessandra Aloisi, The Power of Distraction: Diversion and Reverie from Montaigne to ProustOpen  →
• Annali d’Italianistica 38 · 2020Review of Paolo Desogus, Laboratorio Pasolini: Teoria del segno e del cinemaOpen  →
• Interdisciplinary Literary Studies 20.4 (2018), 549–551 · DOI 10.5325/intelitestud.20.4.0549Review of Colby Dickinson, Words Fail: Theology, Poetry, and the Challenge of RepresentationOpen  →

Editorial roles

• Karl Alber · 2027 —Managing Editor, Atmosphaerica, the Yearbook of the Society for Atmospheric Studies
• Bloomsbury Academic · forthcomingCo-Editor, Philosophy of Breath: A Critical Anthology, with Lenart Škof
• Springer Handbook of Critical Respiratory Studies · 2026Section Co-Editor, “Literature and Contemporary Art”, with Kalpana Subramanian
• Religions (MDPI) · submissions closed 15 July 2025Guest Co-Editor, special issue “Between Philosophy and Theology: Liminal and Contested Issues”, with Lenart Škof
• Castelvecchi · Storie della filosofia · 2025 · ISBN 9791256144983 · translation by Pier Francesco Corvino · ITIntroduction to Lenart Škof, Filosofia del respiro

Peer review

• Sophia · AI & Society · The Polish Journal of Aesthetics · Classical Philology

Academic service

• European Cultural Centre of Delphi and Science and Research Centre Koper · 2026Member, selection commission, Kapodistrias Residential Fellowship
• Kobe Institute for Atmospheric Studies, Kobe University · funded through the JSPS Core-to-Core Program · 2025 — presentCoordinator, the KOIAS Fellowship
• McGill UniversityExternal examiner, doctoral candidate

Research programs and networks

• Institute for Philosophical and Religious Studies, ZRS Koper · directed by Lenart Škof · 2026 — 2032Philosophy, Poetry and the Arts — ARIS research programme P6-0279Researcher on the program.
• Grant JPJSCCA20250001 · awarded to Yuho Hisayama and the Kobe Institute for Atmospheric Studies, Kobe University · 2025 — 2030JSPS Core-to-Core Program for Atmospheric StudiesParticipating in an eleven-center network led by KOIAS, with partners including ZRS Koper, the Society for New Phenomenology at the University of Rostock, and the Centre for Sensory Studies at Concordia University.

Fellowships and funding

• Grant 25K22981 · Principal Investigator · ¥1,300,000 (¥1,000,000 direct) · FY2025 — FY2026JSPS KAKENHI, Research Activity Start-up (研究活動スタート支援) — “The Re-Materialization of the Spirit: An Atmospheric Ecocritical History of Modern European Poetry”Open  →
• Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies, Harvard University · $30,000 · 2021 — 2022Krupp Foundation Dissertation Research Fellowship
• Weatherhead Center for International Affairs, Harvard University · $4,000 · 2018Summer Language Study Grant

Prizes and awards

• Proposal 101272100 “KI-reji” · Excellence 4.70 · Impact 4.80 · Implementation 4.80Seal of Excellence, MSCA Global Postdoctoral Fellowship 2025 — 95%, not funded
• 2018 (PHIL 129, Kant’s Critique of Pure Reason) · 2020 (GENED 1020, Security) · 2021 (GENED 1001, Stories from the End of the World)Harvard University Certificates of Distinction in Teaching
• University of Warwick · 2017 · £300Philosophy Examiners Prize

Presentations and invited talks

• Society for Atmospheric Studies Inaugural Conference, Kobe · 24 – 26 September 2026Respiratory Poetics: Breath, Atmosphere, and Poetic Form between Europe and Japan
• KOBE Academic Talk Program, University City Kobe Industry–Government–Academia Platform · 10 September 2026 · public talkAtmospheres of Breath: Rethinking Spirit, Self, and Air across Cultures
• Japanese Philosophy Network Session 18, University of Tokyo Center for Philosophy and East Asian Academy for New Liberal Arts · Tokyo · 21 July 2026 · invited lecturePhilosophy of the Poetic 切れ字 (kireji): From Emptiness and kire-tsuzuki to Atmosphere
• Elemental Pathways through Nature: Beyond Anthropocentrism and Ecocentrism, ZRS Koper · 16 June 2026 · abstract published in the symposium volume, ANNALES ZRS Koper, ISBN 978-961-7276-26-8, CC BY 4.0Cultivating Beauty: Sakura and the Metamorphosis of CultureOpen  →
• Diffused workshop with Mariaenrica Giannuzzi · TEA Symposium, Kobe University · April 2026Breath of the Wild: Experiencing Atmospheres in Virtual Landscapes
• Ciclo di Conferenze di Letteratura Giapponese, AllJapan, University of Florence · Florence · 20 February 2026 · invited lectureL’haiku e i suoi paradossi
• Atmospheres of the Spiritual, Center for Body, Mind, and Culture, Florida Atlantic University · Boca Raton · 4–5 December 2025Poetry, Breath, and Atmosphere: The Case of Paul Verlaine
• Talking Sense Lecture Series, Center for Sensory Studies, Concordia University · Montreal · 27 November 2025 · invited lectureThe Breath of Poetry: From Europe to Japan
• Society for Applied and Contemporary Philosophy 2025 Annual Symposium, Kobe University · 13 October 2025 · invited talkCaesura and Kireji: The Place of Atmospheres
• Aesthetics of qi/ki and Atmosphere. Steps towards East Asian Possibilities, Kobe University · 27–28 September 2025Haiku and Kireji: There Where Atmospheres Appear
• KOIAS–Shimadzu Lecture, Shimadzu Corporation Headquarters · Kyoto · 10 September 2025From Harvard to Kobe University: The Value of Atmospheric Studies and the Humanities in the Contemporary World
• Philosophy, Poetics, and Arts of Liminality, Science and Research Center Koper · 17–19 June 2025The Outside: The Liminality of the Subject from Bataille and Foucault to Nancy and Agamben
• I Colóquio de Estudos Atmosféricos · Niterói, Brazil · 24–25 March 2025Leo Spitzer Today: Towards a New Archaeology of Atmosphere (Stimmung and Ambiance)
• Etica della letteratura, NAF, Dipartimento di Lettere e Filosofia, Università di Firenze · 17 December 2024 · invited talkRimaterializzare la Stimmung: Nervi e atmosfera in Hugo von Hofmannsthal e Hermann Bahr
• KOIAS Talk, Kobe University · 4 December 2024 · invited talkFrom Intention to Atmosphere: The Forgotten Respiratory and Atmospheric Roots of European Culture
• Aesthetics of Atmosphere, Force, Breath. Transdisciplinary Explorations, Academia Sinica · Taipei · 30 September – 1 October 2024Voice as Atmosphere: The Pneumatological Place of Things in Contemporary Italian and Japanese Philosophy
• XXV World Congress of Philosophy · Rome · 1–8 August 2024Negative Platonism: Reversing Platonism in Patočka and Deleuze
• Poesiæuropa 2024 · Isola Polvese · 3–8 June 2024Poetry and AI: LLMs as (Surrealist) Poetic Machines
• 3rd International Environmental Humanities Conference, University of Cappadocia · Mustafapaşa · 20–22 May 2024The Value of Atmospheric and Respiratory Studies for Today’s Ecocriticism: Verlaine’s “Ariettes oubliées”
• Slogare la voce. Riflessioni sulle vocalità del testo, University of Bologna · 10 May 2024Giorgio Caproni e il dibattito filosofico italo-francese sulla voce
• Roundtable with John T. Hamilton, Cornelia Zumbusch, Emily Jones and Davide Giuriato, Hamburg Institute for Advanced Studies · 8 February 2024Nicht Geist, sondern Atem: The Re-Materialization of the Spirit by Modern European Poetry
• German Literature in Koper, Center for the Humanities, ZRS Koper · 16 January 2024 · invited festive lecture“Ein Hauch um nichts”: Breath and Wind in Modern German Poetry
• Firenze RiVista 2023 · Florence · 22 – 24 September 2023 · invited speakerCreare pecore elettriche: Il ruolo dell’intelligenza artificiale verso un nuovo approccio alla creatività
• Respiratory Philosophy: A Paradigm Shift · Portorož · 18–21 June 2023Intentio Spiritus: the Pneumatological Origins of Intention in Augustine and the Stoics
• VOICES. An Interdisciplinary Conference, Graduate Italian Studies Society, Rutgers University · 22–23 November 2019“When Thinking Was Done with the Lungs”: Agamben, Cavarero, Coccia, and the Voice of One More Italian Difference
• Poggioli Faculty/Student Colloquium, Department of Comparative Literature, Harvard University · 12 November 2019 · response by Ernest Julius MitchellVoice, Air, and Plants: The Italian Critique of Derrida
• Fragments of Culture between Diaspora, Language and Semiotics, in honour of Paul A. Colilli, University of Toronto · 3–4 October 2019The Wind That Poetry Is: Caproni’s Pneumatology and Agamben’s Philosophy
• Poggioli Faculty/Student Colloquium, Harvard University · 26 February 2019Response to John T. Hamilton, “On Complacency: Communication and Critique in a Flat World”

Organization of international conferences

• One-day symposium · Gonzaga University in Florence · 24 November 2026Organizer, Breath, Wind, SpiritSeven speakers, with the keynote by Alessandro Nova.
• ANA Crowne Plaza Hotel Kobe and Kobe University · 24–26 September 2026Co-organizer, Society for Atmospheric Studies Inaugural Conference: Kobe 2026
• International symposium · Centre for Humanities, ZRS Koper · 15 – 16 June 2026Co-organizer, Elemental Pathways through Nature: Beyond Anthropocentrism and EcocentrismKeynote by David Abram; plenary by Serenella Iovino.
• Kobe University · 18–19 April 2026Co-organizer, Technological and Ecological Atmospheres: Symposium
• ZRS Koper · 17–19 June 2025Co-organizer, Philosophy, Poetics, and Arts of Liminality: Interdisciplinary Perspectives
• Kobe Institute for Atmospheric Studies, Kobe University · 28 January 2025Convener, workshop “Vibe and Atmosphere on Social Media (SNS)”
• Kobe University · 2024 — 2025Co-organizer, KOIAS Talks series
• Weatherhead Center for International Affairs, Harvard University · August 2022 — May 2023Graduate Coordinator, Cultural Politics SeminarCoordinating the seminar chaired by Panagiotis Roilos and Dimitrios Yatromanolakis.

Teaching

• FORLILPSI, Università degli Studi di Firenze · since 2026Co-supervisor — undergraduate thesis
• Graduate School of Humanities, Kobe University · Fall 2025 (October 2025 – February 2026) · designed and taughtLecturer — Breath, Spirit, and Atmospheres: An Introduction to Respiratory and Atmospheric StudiesDesigned and taught a graduate course on breath, spirit, and atmosphere across European and East Asian philosophy and literature.
• Kobe University · December 2024 — January 2025Invited lectures — Comparative Literature (Prof. Hisayama)Two lectures: “Wind, Atmosphere, Stimmung — Hugo von Hofmannsthal”, 13 December 2024; “Wind, Spirit, Atmosphere — Percy B. Shelley and Paul Verlaine”, January 2025.
• Wadham College, Oxford · Fall 2023Seminar Tutor — Paul Verlaine, Romances sans paroles
• Harvard Summer School · Milan and Siena · Summer 2022Teaching Assistant — ITAL S-190, Beauty, Innovation, and Sustainability (Prof. Francesco Erspamer)Course evaluation 5.00
• Harvard University · Spring 2021Teaching Fellow — COMPLIT 193, What’s Love Got to Do with It? (Prof. Luis Girón Negrón)
• Harvard University · Fall 2020 · Certificate of Distinction in Teaching, 2021Teaching Fellow — GENED 1001, Stories from the End of the World (Prof. Giovanni Bazzana)Course evaluation 4.83 and 4.63
• Harvard University · Fall 2019 · Certificate of Distinction in Teaching, 2020Teaching Fellow — GENED 1020, Security (Prof. John T. Hamilton)Course evaluation 4.79
• Harvard University · Fall 2018 · Certificate of Distinction in Teaching, 2018Teaching Fellow — PHIL 129, Kant’s Critique of Pure Reason (Prof. Samantha Matherne)Course evaluation 4.89
• Harvard College · Fall 2019Personal Tutor and Advisor, Comparative LiteratureIndividual tutoring with a syllabus tailored to the student.

Additional publications

• Venti Journal 3.2, “Cross-Cultural Atmospheres”, with KOIAS · 2026 · in Italian, English and JapaneseInterview with Emanuele Coccia on Atmosphere
• Delo · 2025 · written in English, published in Slovene translation“Cross-Cultural Breathing: A Slovene–Japanese Dialogue on Atmosphere and Breath.”
• lay0ut magazine · 6 May 2023 · FR → ITEmanuele Coccia, “Il demone dei videogiochi”Open  →
• lay0ut magazine · 9 November 2022 · IT“Serie TV e Poesia, Enjambement e Cliffhanger: Sull’impossibilità di finire.”Open  →
• lay0ut magazine · 11 July 2022 · critical introduction · IT“L’intensità come paradigma della modernità — Un estratto da La vita intensa di Tristan Garcia.”Open  →
• lay0ut magazine · 26 April 2022 · IT“Editoriale #6 — Che la poesia è dappertutto.”
• lay0ut magazine · 30 March 2022 · EN → IT · the opening of McCarthy’s 2018 Harvard Magazine profile of Fred Moten, collected in Who Will Pay Reparations on My Soul?Jesse McCarthy, “Low End Theory” — an extractOpen  →
• lay0ut magazine vol. 0 · 2022 · IT“TikTok: Dall’immagine alla voce — Per una poetica dei social media.”
• lay0ut magazine · 25 January 2022 · DE → IT, with a text by Sebastian BrassMarcel Beyer, three poems — “Poetica dell’orecchio”Open  →
• lay0ut magazine · 1 October 2021 · FR → ITEmanuele Coccia, “Con i piedi per il cielo”Open  →
• Exhibition text · Guardaroba, Foyer, Schiavo Zoppelli Gallery, Milan · 2021 · IT“Il guardaroba alchemico di Federico Cantale”
• Flash Art International · 19 July 2021“Video as Public Space #4: TikTok, from the Image to the Voice.”Open  →
• lay0ut magazine · 29 March 2021 · DE → ITChristian Lehnert, three poems, with an introduction — “La poesia di Christian Lehnert: il respiro che sorge”Open  →
• Exhibition text · Rimpiattino, the former Galleria Margini, Massa · October 2020 · IT“L’oggetto”
• La Balena Bianca · 24 February 2020 · IT“Volare. Non capire Pop-x per capire tutto il resto.”Open  →
• La voce di New York · 2019 · video interview“The World After Plants According to Emanuele Coccia.”Open  →

Professional experience

• Milan and London, remote · September 2023 — presentWriting Coach and Admissions Consultant, Omni AdmissionsCoaching applicants through the development and revision of university and graduate-school applications.
• Vicenza · 2025Translator and Proofreader, Conservatorio “Arrigo Pedrollo”English translation and proofreading for Stefano Grondona’s Vicenza e la chitarra di liuteria, edited by Dimitri Milleri: seven interviews with luthiers and one testimony.
• Milan · March 2022 — May 2024Managing Editor, lay0ut magazineEuropean Translations and Digital Culture sections.
• Cambridge, MA · February — May 2018Rare Books End-Processing Assistant, Houghton Library
• L’Eco di Milano e Provincia · Milan · 2016Editorial Intern, R. F. Editore
• New York, remote · May — September 2015Editorial Intern, DailyCloutWriting opinion pieces on U.S. labor issues under Naomi Wolf’s supervision and managing social media channels.
• Province of Siena · November 2011 — November 2013 (Secretary, November 2010 — November 2011)President, Consulta Provinciale degli Studenti di Siena

Professional development

• DeepLearning.AI / AWS, on Coursera · May 2026Generative AI with Large Language Models
• remote · 6–10 June 2022Teaching Black Italy
• Milan · 29 June – 2 July 2020Ica Milano Summer School, classroom #7A week with Emanuele Coccia and Luca Trevisani on the theme of metamorphoses.
• Grado · 21–26 August 2017Summer School of OntologyIncluding seminars by Giorgio Agamben on the concept of the Voice.

Languages

Bilingual in Italian and English · proficient in German and French · intermediate Japanese · advanced reading knowledge of Latin and Spanish · basic Ancient Greek.

Alberto Parisi