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Profile
| Academic position | Full Professor |
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| Research fields | General and Comparative Literature; Cultural Studies,Romance Literature |
| Keywords | Ethics, Literature, Social literacy, Environment, Ecocriticism |
| Honours and awards | 2024: James Gordon Hanes Distinguished Professorship in Humanities 2023: Premio Nazionale di Divulgazione Scientifica, sez. Humanities 2017: MLA Aldo and Jeanne Scaglione Prize for Italian Studies 2017: Seal of Excellence of the Marie Skłodowska Curie Action (H2020) for “ELICIT-The Environmental Humanities and Italo Calvino: Interpretation, Transdisciplinarity, and Educational Strategies.” 2017: 2016 Book Prize of the American Association for Italian Studies 2014: Holder of the “J. K. Binder” Lectureship in Literature, University of California, San Diego. |
Current contact address
| Country | United States of America |
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| City | Chapel Hill |
| Institution | University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill |
| Institute | Department of Romance Studies |
| Homepage | https://romancestudies.unc.edu |
Host during sponsorship
| Prof. Dr. Hubert Zapf | Lehrstuhl für Amerikanistik, Universität Augsburg, Augsburg |
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| Prof. Dr. Christof Mauch | Rachel Carson Center, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München (LMU), München |
| Start of initial sponsorship | 01/09/2010 |
Programme(s)
| 2010 | Humboldt Research Fellowship Programme for Experienced Researchers |
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Publications (partial selection)
| 2023 | Serenella Iovino: Gli animali di Calvino. Storie dall'Antropocene. Treccani 2023 |
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| 2022 | Serenella Iovino: Paesaggio civile. Storie di ambiente, cultura e resistenza. Il Saggiatore, 2022 |
| 2021 | Serenella Iovino: Italo Calvino's Animals: Anthropocene Stories. Cambridge University Press, 2021 |
| 2018 | Serenella Iovino, Enrico Cesaretti and Elena M. Past, eds. Italy and the Environmental Humanties: Landscapes, Natures, Ecologies. . Charlottesville, 2018 |
| 2016 | Serenella Iovino: Ecocriticism and Italy: Ecology, Resistance and Liberation. . Bloomsbury, 2016 |
| 2016 | Serpil Oppermann and Serenella Iovino, eds. Environmental Humanities: Voices from the Anthropocene. . Rowman and Littlefield International. 2016 |
| 2015 | Serenella Iovino: A Praise of the Impure: Theoretical Outlines of a Mediterranean Ecocriticism. . In: Ed. Dipartimento di Lingue e Letterature Straniere e Culture Moderne dellUniversità degli Studi di Torino. In A Warm Mind-Shake Scritti in onore di Paolo Bertinetti, . Trauben, 2015. 247-256 |
| 2015 | Serenella Iovino, Daniela Fargione (eds.): ContaminAzioni: Cibi, nature, culture. Milan: LED.. LED, 2015 |
| 2015 | Serenella Iovino: Corpi eloquenti. Ecocritica, contaminazioni e storie della materia. . In: D. Fargione e S. Iovino. Milan: LED. ContaminAzioni ecologiche: Cibi, Nature, Culture.. LED, 2015. 103-117 |
| 2015 | Serenella Iovino: Pensare come una montagna. . In: L. Mercalli e L. Giunti. Tav No Tav. Le ragioni di una scelta. . Scienza Express Edizioni., 2015. 155-165 |
| 2015 | Serenella Iovino: The Living Diffractions of Matter and Text: Narrative Agency, Strategic Anthropomorphism, and how Interpretation Works. In: Anglia: Journal of English Philology , 2015, 69-87 |
| 2014 | Serenella Iovino: Bodies of Naples: Matter, Stories, and the Landscapes of Porosity. . In: S. Iovino and S. Oppermann. Material Ecocriticism. . Indiana University Press, 2014. 97-113 |
| 2014 | Serenella Iovino: Death in Venice: Bodies and the Discourse of Pollution from Thomas Mann to Porto Marghera (Booklet). The Eighth J. K. Binder Lectureship in Literature. . Department of Literature: University of California, San Diego, 2014 |
| 2014 | Serenella Iovino: HybridiTales: Posthumanizing Calvino. . In: D. Amberson, E. M. Past. Thinking Italian Animals: Animals and the Posthuman in Italian Literature and Film. . Palgrave MacMillan, 2014. 215-232 |
| 2014 | Serenella Iovino: Introduction: Stories Come to Matter. In: S. Iovino, S. Oppermann, Material Ecocriticism. Indiana University Press. 2014. 1-17 |
| 2014 | Serenella Iovino: Le voci di dentro (e quelle di fuori). . In: Marco Armiero, Teresa e le altre: Storie di donne nella Terra dei Fuochi.. Jaca Book, 2014. 147-154 |
| 2014 | Serenella Iovino, Serpil Oppermann (eds.): Material Ecocriticism. . Indiana University Press., 2014 |
| 2014 | Serenella Iovino: Mediterranean Ecocriticism, or, A Blueprint for Cultural Amphibians. Introduction to the Special Focus Issue on Mediterranean Ecocriticism, . In: Ecozon@ , 2014, 1-14 |
| 2014 | Serenella Iovino, Serpil Oppermann Onword. Prismatic Visions: Ecology After Green. . In: J. J. Cohen, Prismatic Ecologies: Ecotheory Beyond Green. . University of Minnesota Press, 2014. 328-336 |
| 2014 | Serenella Iovino: Storie dellaltro mondo: Calvino post-umano. . In: Modern Language Notes (MLN), Italian Issue, 2014, 118-138 |
| 2014 | Serenella Iovino: Un viaggio non sentimentale. Itinerari ecologici e narrativi nel paesaggio della Pianura Padana. In: L. Bonato, E. Lusso, E. Madrussan. Viaggiare: Percorsi e approdi di genti e saperi.. LHarmattan, 2014. 79-88 |
| 2013 | Serenella Iovino: Cultura, Ecologia, Liberazione. . In: Bloom: Rivista di Architettura , 2013, 5-8 |
| 2013 | Serenella Iovino: Ecocritica: teoria e pratica. . In: C. Salabè. Rome: Donzelli. 17-25., Ecocritica. Donzelli, 2013. 17-25 |
| 2013 | Serenella Iovino: Ecocriticism, Cultural Evolutionism, and Ecologies of Mind: Notes on Calvinos Cosmicomics. . In: CoSMo: Comparative Studies in Modernism , 2013, 113-126 |
| 2013 | Serenella Iovino: Ecocriticism, oder, Wenn die Literatur vom Anderen spricht. . In: Hubert Zapf Theorien der Literaturen. VI. . A. Francke Verlag, 2013. 205-216 |
| 2013 | Serenella Iovino: Loving the Alien: Ecofeminism, Animals, and Anna Maria Ortese's Poetics of Otherness. . In: Feminismo/s, Special issue on ecocriticism. Ed. T. Gifford and L. Kerslake, 2013, 177-204 |
| 2013 | Serenella Iovino: Toxic Epiphanies: Dioxin, Power, and Gendered Bodies in Laura Contis Narratives on Seveso. . In: G. Gaard, S. C. Estok, S. Oppermann., International Perspectives in Feminist Ecocriticism. Routledge, 2013. 37-55 |
| 2012 | Serenella Iovino, Serpil Oppermann Material Ecocriticism: Materiality, Agency, and Models of Narrativity.. In: Ecozona--European Journal of Culture, Literature and Environment. , 2012, --- |
| 2012 | Serenella Iovino: Material Ecocriticism: Matter, Text, and Posthuman Ethics. . In: Timo Müller, Michael Sauter. Literature, Ecology, Ethics.. Winter Verlag, 2012. 51-68 |
| 2012 | Serenella Iovino: Prefazione . In: Matteo Andreozzi, Etiche dellambiente: Voci e prospettive. . LED, 2012. 13-18 |
| 2012 | Serenella Iovino: Restoring the Imagination of Place. Narrative Reinhabitation and the Po Valley.. In: Tom Lynch, Cheryll Glotfelty, and Karla Armbruster The Bioregional Imagination: Literature, Ecology, and Place. . University of Georgia Press 2012. 100-117 |
| 2012 | Serenella Iovino: Steps to a Material Ecocriticism: The Recent Literature About the New Materialisms and Its Implications for Ecocritical Theory.. In: Ecozona--European Journal of Culture, Literature and Environment (forthcoming), 2012, --- |
| 2012 | Serenella Iovino: Stories from the Thick of Things: Introducing Material Ecocriticism. Part one of S. Iovino and S. Oppermann Theorizing Material Ecocriticism: A Diptych. . In: ISLEInterdisciplinary Studies in Literature and Environment, 2012, 449-460 |
| 2011 | Serenella Iovino: La Mente, el lugar, las historias. Narrativas de re-habitación para la Llanura padana. . In: J. M. Marrero Henríquez Literatura y sostenibilidad en la era del antropoceno. . MAPFRE Guanarteme, 2011. --- |
| 2011 | Serenella Iovino: The Wilderness of the Human Other. Italo Calvinos The Watcher and a Reflection on Third-Wave Ecocriticism. . In: Serpil Oppermann, Ufuk Ozdag, Nevin Ozkan, and Scott Slovic The Future of Ecocriticism: New Horizons.. Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2011. |
| 2010 | Serenella Iovino: Ecocriticism and a Non-Anthropocentric Humanism. Reflections on Local Natures and Global Responsibilities. . In: Laurenz Volkmann, Nancy Grimm, Ines Detmers, and Katrin Thomson. Local Natures, Global Responsibilities, ASNEL Papers 15 . Rodopi, 2010. 29-53 |
| 2010 | Serenella Iovino: Quanto scommettiamo? Ecologia letteraria, educazione ambientale e Le Cosmicomiche di Italo Calvino. . In: Compar(a)ison. An International Journal of Comparative Literature, Special Issue: Literature and Ecology. , 2010, 107-123 |
| 2010 | Serenella Iovino: The Human Alien. Otherness, Humanism, and the Future of Ecocriticism. . In: Ecozona--European Journal of Culture, Literature and Environment. online: http://ecozona.eu/index.php/journal/article/view/41 , 2010, --- |