After several decades of research, teaching, and publishing in the fields of political theory and language instruction

(see Daniela Gobetti’s page at Amazon.com) I have devoted myself to photography and poetry (in Italian and in English).

I love philosophy, languages and images: for me, conceptual, verbal and visual images belong in the same universe

as I attempt to bring them in close conversation.

I hold a Laurea in Filosofia Politica from the University of Turin, the city where I was born in 1952. I moved to New York

in 1979, where I did a Ph.D. in Political Science at Columbia University. I taught Political Theory and managed a Center

for European Studies at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. I also became a translator and writer of books for learners of Italian. I moved

to Milan in late 2021, and back to Turin in January 2024. I divide my time between Turin and Gressoney St. Jean, in the Aosta Valley, among

my beloved mountains.

My photographic work has been awarded prizes in international competitions and has been shown in solo and group shows in Italy, the

United States, Switzerland and France, as you can see on the Awards page. Click here to see my CV.

I began writing poetry in 2011. In 2025, after years of collaboration and friendship, I joined forces with Carol Morris, a highly accomplished

poet and visual artist, to self-publish a book, Two poets. When I lived in Milan I discovered - a marvelous stroke of luck! - a group of women poets

who founded an association, Apriti Cielo! thirteen years ago. They generously welcomed me with open arms. Our core activity takes place in

La stanza della poesia. We read the work of other poets to find inspiration for our own work, which is then published once a year as our

Quaderni. More recently we also edited a collected volume entitled, È meglio pace - Lemmi in tempo di guerra, Edizioni paginauno, 2025.