Serenella Iovino

Serenella Iovino is an Italian cultural and literary theorist, and a Distinguished Professor at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. She is considered one of the main environmental philosophers of Italy.[1]

Career

From 2001 to 2018, Iovino was a professor of the Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures and of Modern Cultures at the University of Turin, Italy.[2] From 2008 to 2010, she also served as President of the European Association for the Study of Literature, Culture and Environment (EASLCE).[3] In 2014, Iovino was a J. K. Binder Lecturer at the University of California, San Diego.[4]

In 2019 Iovino became Professor of Italian Studies and Environmental Humanities at the University of North Carolina, the first ever to obtain this double appointment. In 2024 she was named James Gordon Hanes Distinguished Professor in Humanities.

Iovino has published extensively on ecocriticism, literature, and environmental ethics. Iovino is the main proponent for material ecocriticism, a current of ecocritical thought.[5] Her book Ecocriticism and Italy: Ecology, Resistance, and Liberation was awarded the 2016 Book Prize of the American Association for Italian Studies and the MLA's 2016 Aldo and Jeanne Scaglione Prize for Italian Studies.[6][7]

Publications

  • Gli animali di Calvino. Storie dall'Antropocene. Roma: Treccani Libri, 2023.
  • Paesaggio civile. Storie di ambiente, cultura e resistenza. Milano: Il Saggiatore, 2022.
  • Iovino, Serenella (2021). Italo Calvino's Animals. doi:10.1017/9781009063586. ISBN 978-1-00-906358-6.
  • Italy and the Environmental Humanities: Landscapes, Natures, Ecologies. Edited by Serenella Iovino, Enrico Cesaretti, and Elena Past. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2018.[8]
  • Behold. In Veer Ecology: A Companion for Environmental Thinking. Jeffrey J. Cohen and Lowell Duckert, Eds. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2017. Pages 312-326.
  • Environmental Humanities: Voices from the Anthropocene. Edited by Serpil Oppermann and Serenella Iovino. London: Rowman & Littlefield International, 2016.[9][10][11]
  • Ecocriticism and Italy: Ecology, Resistance and Liberation. London: Bloomsbury Academics, 2016.[12][13]
  • Material Ecocriticism. Edited by Serenella Iovino and Serpil Oppermann. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2014.[14][15]
  • Ecologia letteraria: Una strategia di sopravvivenza. Milan. Edizioni Ambiente, 2006 (2nd ed. 2015).[16][17]
  • Filosofie dell’ambiente. Natura, Etica, Società. Rome: Carocci, 2004. (Repr. 2006, 2007, 2008).
  • Il ‘Woldemar’ di F.H. Jacobi, introduzione, traduzione e commento storico-critico. Padua: CEDAM, 2000.
  • Radice della Virtù. Saggio sul ‘Woldemar’ di F.H. Jacobi. Naples: Città del Sole, 1999.

Awards

  • 2023: XI Premio Nazionale di Divulgazione Scientifica "Giancarlo Dosi" (area: Humanities), for Gli animali di Calvino. Storie dall'Antropocene (Treccani Libri, 2023).
  • 2016: Aldo and Jeanne Scaglione Prize for Italian Studies Winners for Ecocriticism and Italy: Ecology, Resistance, and Liberation (Bloomsbury, 2016).[18]
  • 2016: American Association for Italian Studies Book Prize for Ecocriticism and Italy: Ecology, Resistance, and Liberation. New York: Bloomsbury, 2016.[7]

References

  1. ^ "La Stampa - Ecocritica, ovvero della letteratura ecologica". Archived from the original on 18 January 2014. Retrieved 30 April 2016.
  2. ^ "Profilo del docente: Serenella Iovino - Dipartimento di Lingue e Letterature Straniere". dipartimentolingue.unito.it. Retrieved 30 April 2016.
  3. ^ "Serenella Iovino - Rachel Carson Center for Environment and Society - LMU Munich". carsoncenter.uni-muenchen.de. Retrieved 30 April 2016.
  4. ^ "University of California, San Diego, lecture". italoamericano.org. Retrieved 30 April 2016.
  5. ^ "Preconference Seminar - Tenth Biennial ASLE Conference - May 28 to June 1, 2013". asle.ku.edu. Retrieved 30 April 2016.
  6. ^ "Aldo and Jeanne Scaglione Prize for Italian Studies Winners". Modern Language Association. Retrieved 26 February 2021.
  7. ^ a b "Book Prizes Awarded". aais.wildapricot.org. American Association for Italian Studies. 2016. Archived from the original on 20 June 2019. Retrieved 19 June 2023. 20th and 21st centuries: Serenella Iovino. Ecocriticism and Italy: Ecology, Resistance, and Liberation. New York: Bloomsbury, 2016.
  8. ^ Lollini, Massimo (2020). "Italy and the Environmental Humanities: Landscapes, Natures, Ecologies by Serenella Iovino, Enrico Cesaretti, and Elena Past (review)". MLN. 135 (1): 354–356. doi:10.1353/mln.2020.0008. S2CID 219459154. Project MUSE 754957.
  9. ^ Tait, A. G. (2 January 2019). "Environmental humanities: voices from the Anthropocene". Green Letters. 23 (1): 105–108. doi:10.1080/14688417.2019.1586134. S2CID 166312720.
  10. ^ "Environmental Humanities: Voices from the Anthropocene - ASLE". Retrieved 26 February 2021.
  11. ^ Banting, Pamela (2018). "Environmental Humanities: Voices from the Anthropocene by Serpil Oppermann and Serenella Iovino". The Goose. 16 (2).
  12. ^ Barron, Patrick. "Review of Ecocriticism and Italy: Ecology, Resistance, Liberation, by Serenella Iovino". {{cite journal}}: Cite journal requires |journal= (help)
  13. ^ Guaraldo, Emiliano (29 December 2016). "L'ecocritica in Italia: ambiente, letteratura, nuovi materialismi. A proposito dei volumi di S. Iovino, Ecocriticism and Italy: Ecology, Resistance, and Liberation (2016) e di N. Turi (a cura di), Ecosistemi letterari (2016)". LEA (in Italian). 5: 671–699. doi:10.13128/LEA-1824-484X-20060.
  14. ^ Stenning, Anna (3 May 2016). "Material ecocriticism , edited by Serenella Iovino and Serpil Oppermann, Bloomington and Indianapolis, Indiana University Press, 2014, 376 pp., US$40 (paperback), ISBN 978-0-253-01398-9". Green Letters. 20 (2): 218–220. doi:10.1080/14688417.2016.1171490. S2CID 164165388.
  15. ^ LaFleur, Greta (2018). "Material Ecocriticism ed. by Serenella Iovino and Serpil Oppermann (review)". PhiloSOPHIA. 8 (1): 157–162. doi:10.1353/phi.2018.0011. S2CID 171948682. Project MUSE 694770.
  16. ^ "Ecologia Letteraria | Serenella Iovino". Zest Letteratura Sostenibile (in Italian). 14 January 2018. Retrieved 26 February 2021.
  17. ^ "ECOLOGIA LETTERARIA. UNA STRATEGIA PER LA SOPRAVVIVENZA – Fermi EcoSpace" (in Italian). Retrieved 26 February 2021.
  18. ^ "Aldo and Jeanne Scaglione Prize for Italian Studies Winners". Modern Language Association. Retrieved 29 April 2021.