She worked on the theme of bioethics[6] and of the political myth in the thought of Ernst Cassirer and Roland Barthes, on the poetics of Bertolt Brecht and on the themes of recognition and interculturality.
In 2013, she published her first book on Frantz Fanon.
She is currently a postdoctoral research fellow at the Department of Human and Social Sciences at the Università degli Studi di Napoli "L'Orientale" and collaborates with the professorships of Moral Philosophy and Intercultural Ethics.[7]
Politics
Carofalo is an activist of Ex OPG "Je so' pazzo" (Former Asylum "I am crazy"), a social centre located in the building of the former Sant'Eframo judicial psychiatric hospital (Italian: ospedale psichiatrico giudiziario, OPG) in the Materdei rione in Naples.
Carofalo[8] was chosen as national spokesperson on 17 December 2017 and as political leader from 6 January 2018 of Power to the People.[9]