Dr. Ros Velasco conducts multidisciplinary research on the evolutionary role of boredom from a philosophical-anthropological point of view to challenge the understanding of boredom as pathological. She examines how boredom became medicalized through nineteenth-century literature and philosophy. Her published works include three edited/authored books: Feminism. Past, Present, and Future Perspectives (2017), Contemporary Approaches in Philosophical and Humanistic Thought (2017), and Hans Blumenberg. Literatura, estetica y nihilismo (2016). Academic papers include works on Blumenberg's philosophical anthropology of boredom, humanizing treatment approaches, and comprehensive boredom studies (2017-2018). She is developing a forthcoming book on boredom's pathologization history and plans future research on boredom in aging populations to improve seniors' quality of life.
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