Prof. Dr. Serenella Iovino

Profile

Academic positionFull Professor
Research fieldsGeneral and Comparative Literature; Cultural Studies,Romance Literature
KeywordsEthics, 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

CountryUnited States of America
CityChapel Hill
InstitutionUniversity of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
InstituteDepartment of Romance Studies
Homepagehttps://romancestudies.unc.edu

Host during sponsorship

Prof. Dr. Hubert ZapfLehrstuhl für Amerikanistik, Universität Augsburg, Augsburg
Prof. Dr. Christof MauchRachel Carson Center, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München (LMU), München
Start of initial sponsorship01/09/2010

Programme(s)

2010Humboldt Research Fellowship Programme for Experienced Researchers

Publications (partial selection)

2023Serenella Iovino: Gli animali di Calvino. Storie dall'Antropocene. Treccani 2023
2022Serenella Iovino: Paesaggio civile. Storie di ambiente, cultura e resistenza. Il Saggiatore, 2022
2021Serenella Iovino: Italo Calvino's Animals: Anthropocene Stories. Cambridge University Press, 2021
2018Serenella Iovino, Enrico Cesaretti and Elena M. Past, eds. Italy and the Environmental Humanties: Landscapes, Natures, Ecologies. . Charlottesville, 2018
2016Serenella Iovino: Ecocriticism and Italy: Ecology, Resistance and Liberation. . Bloomsbury, 2016
2016Serpil Oppermann and Serenella Iovino, eds. Environmental Humanities: Voices from the Anthropocene. . Rowman and Littlefield International. 2016
2015Serenella Iovino: A Praise of the Impure: Theoretical Outlines of a Mediterranean Ecocriticism. . In: Ed. Dipartimento di Lingue e Letterature Straniere e Culture Moderne dell’Università degli Studi di Torino. In A Warm Mind-Shake Scritti in onore di Paolo Bertinetti, . Trauben, 2015. 247-256
2015Serenella Iovino, Daniela Fargione (eds.): ContaminAzioni: Cibi, nature, culture. Milan: LED.. LED, 2015
2015Serenella 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
2015Serenella 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
2015Serenella 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
2014Serenella 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
2014Serenella 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
2014Serenella 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
2014Serenella Iovino: Introduction: Stories Come to Matter. In: S. Iovino, S. Oppermann, Material Ecocriticism. Indiana University Press. 2014. 1-17
2014Serenella 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
2014Serenella Iovino, Serpil Oppermann (eds.): Material Ecocriticism. . Indiana University Press., 2014
2014Serenella Iovino: Mediterranean Ecocriticism, or, A Blueprint for Cultural Amphibians. Introduction to the Special Focus Issue on Mediterranean Ecocriticism, . In: Ecozon@ , 2014, 1-14
2014Serenella 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
2014Serenella Iovino: Storie dell’altro mondo: Calvino post-umano. . In: Modern Language Notes (MLN), Italian Issue, 2014, 118-138
2014Serenella 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.. L’Harmattan, 2014. 79-88
2013Serenella Iovino: Cultura, Ecologia, Liberazione. . In: Bloom: Rivista di Architettura , 2013, 5-8
2013Serenella Iovino: Ecocritica: teoria e pratica. . In: C. Salabè. Rome: Donzelli. 17-25., Ecocritica. Donzelli, 2013. 17-25
2013Serenella Iovino: Ecocriticism, Cultural Evolutionism, and Ecologies of Mind: Notes on Calvino’s Cosmicomics. . In: CoSMo: Comparative Studies in Modernism , 2013, 113-126
2013Serenella Iovino: Ecocriticism, oder, Wenn die Literatur vom Anderen spricht. . In: Hubert Zapf Theorien der Literaturen. VI. . A. Francke Verlag, 2013. 205-216
2013Serenella 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
2013Serenella Iovino: Toxic Epiphanies: Dioxin, Power, and Gendered Bodies in Laura Conti’s Narratives on Seveso. . In: G. Gaard, S. C. Estok, S. Oppermann., International Perspectives in Feminist Ecocriticism. Routledge, 2013. 37-55
2012Serenella Iovino, Serpil Oppermann Material Ecocriticism: Materiality, Agency, and Models of Narrativity.. In: Ecozona--European Journal of Culture, Literature and Environment. , 2012, ---
2012Serenella Iovino: Material Ecocriticism: Matter, Text, and Posthuman Ethics. . In: Timo Müller, Michael Sauter. Literature, Ecology, Ethics.. Winter Verlag, 2012. 51-68
2012Serenella Iovino: Prefazione . In: Matteo Andreozzi, Etiche dell’ambiente: Voci e prospettive. . LED, 2012. 13-18
2012Serenella 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
2012Serenella 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, ---
2012Serenella Iovino: Stories from the Thick of Things: Introducing Material Ecocriticism. Part one of S. Iovino and S. Oppermann Theorizing Material Ecocriticism: A Diptych. . In: ISLE—Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature and Environment, 2012, 449-460
2011Serenella 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. ---
2011Serenella Iovino: The Wilderness of the Human Other. Italo Calvino’s ‘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.
2010Serenella 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
2010Serenella 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
2010Serenella 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, ---