Paolo Stellino is an Appointed Research Fellow at the NOVA Institute of Philosophy (IFILNOVA) and an Invited Professor in the Department of Philosophy at NOVA FCSH, where he teaches the course Philosophy and Cinema (MA in Aesthetics and Artistic Studies). His main areas of interest are the history of philosophy (the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, with particular attention to the philosophy of Friedrich Nietzsche), the philosophy of film, and ethics (in particular, the philosophy of suicide). He is also interested in the relationship between philosophy and literature.
He is the author of Nietzsche and Dostoevsky: On the Verge of Nihilism (Peter Lang, 2015; Greek transl.: Govostis, 2020), Philosophical Perspectives on Suicide: Kant, Schopenhauer, Nietzsche, and Wittgenstein (Palgrave, 2020), and Nietzsche sullo schermo. Saggi di filosofia del cinema (Meltemi, 2025). He is the co-editor of several volumes, including Nietzsche et le relativisme (Ousia, 2019), Violence and Nihilism (de Gruyter, 2022), and The Oxford Handbook of the Philosophy of Suicide (Oxford University Press, 2025). He has published numerous articles in edited volumes and international journals.
His academic affiliations include membership of the Lisbon Nietzsche Group (which he coordinated from 2022 to 2024), the HyperNietzsche Association, based at the École Normale Supérieure de Paris/CNRS, and the Ibero-American Network of Nietzsche Studies, based at the Complutense University of Madrid. He was a visiting researcher at the following universities: Victoria University (Wellington), Ernst-Moritz-Arndt-Universität (Greifswald), McGill College (Montreal), Maison Française d’Oxford (Oxford), and Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin (Berlin).
