Elena Laurenzi is professor of History of Political Thought at the University of Salento. She is a member of ADHUC – Research Center for Theory, Gender, Sexuality and the GRC Creació i Pensament de les dones.

Her research focuses on two main areas: one dedicated to feminist theory, with particular attention to the discussion between feminism and multiculturalism, and another one dedicated to woman thinkers of the 20th century.

She has published essays on María Zambrano, Simone Weil, Iris Murdoch and Françoise Collin. She has edited, with À. Lorena Fuster, the monograph of Daimon «Contra la aridez. La propuesta filosófica de Iris Murdoch» (2013), with Marisa Forcina a double monograph of Segni e comprensione: «Reti filosofiche femminili. Ripensare la politica e la tradizione» (núm. 87 i 88, 2015-2016) and with Cristina Sànchez the monograph of Lectora «Europe as conflict» (núm. 24, 2018).

Among her publications are the monographs María Zambrano, Nacer por sí misma. Ensayos sobre Antígona, Eloisa, Diótima (1995), Sotto il segno dell’aurora. Studi su María Zambrano e Friedrich Nietzsche (2012) and Il paradosso della libertà. Una lettura politica di María Zambrano (2017).

She has translated into Italian and edited several works by María Zambrano. Among them: De la aurora, Las palabras del regreso, the critical bilingual edition of the unpublished Dante espejo humanoand the epistolary with Elena Croce A presto, dunque, e a sempre (2015, winner of the award Victoria Aganoor Pompilij).

Recently, she has investigated the transmission of female political thought from the study of two generations of women in La Pulla in the early twentieth century. Along these lines, she has published the monograph Fili della Trasmissione. (Grifo, 2018), the volume A Female Activist Elite in Italy (1890-1920). Its International Network and Legacy (Palgrave MacMillian, 2021), edited with Manuela Mosca, and has made the exhibition Anime del tessile (Biblioteca Bernardini di Lecce, 3 December 2021-3 Juni 2022).