Prof. Dr. Serenella Iovino

A philosopher by training, Serenella Iovino is Professor of Comparative Literature at the University of Turin. Past president and co-founder of the European Association for the Study of Literature, Culture, and Environment (www.easlce.eu), she is currently a research fellow of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation. In addition to authoring diverse books, essays, and edited projects, Iovino is the creative writing and art section editor of the journal Ecozon@. She also serves on the editorial boards of several international journals and publication series on environmental topics, including ISLE, Green Letters, Ecozon@, and PAN: Philosophy Activism Nature. In 2013, she founded the Turin International Environmental Humanities Research Group. Iovino has been a guest lecturer in all major European countries, and many neighboring ones as well. In 2014 , she held the J. K. Binder Lectureship for Literature at the University of California, San Diego. In Italy, Serenella recently succeeded in an unusual experiment: she discussed ecocriticism on TV on Saturday night on the environmental program “Scala Mercalli,” broadcast by the national TV channel RAI 3.

Her research interests include: environmental humanities; ecocriticism; landscape and place (as related to issues of ethics, culture, ecology, bioregionalism); ethics and justice (as related to issues of global environment, society, gender, interspecies relationships); feminist ethics and feminist ecocriticism; the posthuman and material Turn; Italo Calvino and contemporary Italian literature; and literature, ethics, and Naturphilosophie in Germany during the Age of Goethe.

For more information, please visit: http://unito.academia.edu/serenellaiovino

Selected Publications

• Ecocriticism and Italy: Ecology, Resistance and Liberation. London: Bloomsbury Academics, forthcoming 2016.
• Material Ecocriticism. Edited by Serenella Iovino and Serpil Oppermann. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2014.
• “Ecocriticism, oder, Wenn die Literatur vom Anderen spricht.” In Theorien der Literaturen, edited by Hubert Zapf, 205–16. Basel: A. Francke Verlag, 2014.
• Ecologia letteraria: Una strategia di sopravvivenza. Milan: Edizioni Ambiente, 2006 . Second Edition, 2015.
• “Restoring the Imagination of Place: Narrative Reinhabitation and the Po Valley.” In The Bioregional Imagination: Literature, Ecology, and Place, edited by T. Lynch, C. Glotfelty, and K. Armbruster, 100–17. Athens, GA: University of Georgia Press, 2012.