Clio Nicastro is a researcher in philosophy, cultural studies, and film studies. She teaches at Bard College Berlin, where she has been affiliated since 2020 and currently serves as both a faculty member and the coordinator of the Internship Program. She studied philosophy at the University of Palermo, where she received her PhD in Aesthetics and Theory of Art. From 2016 to 2018, she was a postdoctoral fellow at the ICI Berlin, where she co-founded the lecture and screening series In Front of the Factory with Saima Akhtar and Rosa Barotsi. She returned to ICI Berlin for an additional one-year research fellowship (2021–2022), supported by a VolkswagenStiftung grant for her project on eating disorders in film. She is the author of La Dialettica del Denkraum in Aby Warburg (Palermo University Press, 2022), and the co-editor of Over and Over and Over Again: Reenactment Strategies in Contemporary Arts and Theory (ICI Berlin Press, 2022) and Violence, Care, Cure: Self/Perceptions within the Medical Encounter (Routledge, forthcoming 2025). She is part of the board of directors of the Harun Farocki Institut.