Lorenzo Bernini is associate professor in Political Philosophy at the University of Verona, Italy. He founded the Research Centre PoliTeSse (Politics and Theories of Sexuality) which he now directs. He is also one of the founders of GIFTS, the network of Gender, Intersex, Feminist, Transfeminist and Sexuality studies. His interests range from classical modern political philosophy and French thought of the twentieth century , to contemporary queer theories, critical race theories, and psychoanalysis. Among his books: Queer Apocalypses: Elements of Antisocial Theory (Palgrave Macmillan, 2017), that was previously published in Italian (Edizioni ETS, 2013) and Spanish (Editorial EGALES, 2015); Queer Theories: An Introduction. From Mario Mieli to the Antisocial Turn (Routledge, 2019), that was previously published in Italian (Mimesis, 2017), Spanish (Editorial EGALES, 2018), and French (Eterotopia France 2024); The Sexual/Political: Freud with Marx, Fanon, Foucault (Routledge 2023), that was previously published in Italian (Edizioni ETS, 2019).