Valerie O Giovanini
Lecturer

Brief Biography

Valerie Oved Giovanini, Ph.D., is author of the book 'Persecution and Morality: Intersections and Tensions between Freud and Levinas.' She has published on aesthetic perception in Edmund Husserl for the American Society for Aesthetics (2015), on creative ontologies in poetic language (2016), and the use of media to represent feminist resistance in The Handmaid’s Tale (2019) for a collection on Aesthetic Subjectivity in Free Associations: Psychoanalysis and Culture, Media, Groups, Politics (2019). Giovanini recently contributed to and co-edited a special edition of Artizein: Arts and Teaching Journal on pedagogical practices, invitations, and collaborations (2023).

Her most recent article "A Matrixial Museum: Education In Almost Impossible Spaces" (2024) is published in Artizein: Arts and Teaching Journal. For the year of 2025-2026, she is a Professional Fellow at NewGround: A Muslim-Jewish Partnership for Change. Giovanini’s work explores the relation between creative imagination, subjectivity, and their ethical implications for political life.

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