Matilde GHELARDINI

Matilde Ghelardini (Florence, 31 March 1999) completed her academic education at the University of Florence, where she obtained her Bachelor’s degree in Philosophy in 2020, graduating with highest honours (110/110 cum laude), with a thesis entitled "Una fondazione filosofica dell’individuo come persona: l’eredità dell’esistenzialismo di Gabriel Marcel" (A Philosophical Foundation of the Individual as Person: The Legacy of Gabriel Marcel’s Existentialism). In 2022, she obtained her Master’s degree in Philosophical Sciences from the same university, again graduating with highest honours (110/110 cum laude), with a thesis entitled "Sulle tracce dell’esistenzialismo. Per un’ermeneutica di esistenza e verità in Gabriel Marcel e Jean-Paul Sartre" (In the Footsteps of Existentialism: Towards a Hermeneutics of Existence and Truth in Gabriel Marcel and Jean-Paul Sartre).

Also in 2022, she began her PhD in Philosophy at Vita-Salute San Raffaele University in Milan, carried out under an international cotutelle agreement with the Institut Catholique de Toulouse. She was awarded her PhD with honours on 9 March 2026, defending a dissertation entitled "La scena dell’esistenza. Gabriel Marcel e l’intreccio tra teatro e filosofia nell’esistenzialismo francese" (The Stage of Existence: Gabriel Marcel and the Interweaving of Theatre and Philosophy in French Existentialism), supervised by Andrea Tagliapietra, Andrea Bellantone, and Caterina Piccione.

Her research focuses primarily on contemporary French philosophy and, in particular, on French existentialism, with specific attention to the works of Gabriel Marcel, Jean-Paul Sartre, and Albert Camus.

Alongside her research, she has gained university teaching experience in Italy and abroad. She has taught Modern and Contemporary Philosophy at the Higher Institute of Religious Sciences of Tuscany and has given lectures and seminars at several academic institutions.

She regularly participates in national and international conferences on contemporary philosophy, existentialism, and the relationship between philosophy and theatre, presenting the results of her research in Italy and abroad. Her scholarly activity also includes articles, reviews, and contributions to edited volumes published in Italy and internationally, focusing primarily on twentieth-century French philosophy and the intersections between philosophical thought and theatre.

She is a member of the editorial board of the "Giornale Critico di Storia delle Idee" and of several national and international scholarly societies and research groups. Since 2023, she has also served as Deputy Secretary of the "Association Présence de Gabriel Marcel" in Paris.