Serenella Iovino


Serenella Iovino is an Italian professor, and cultural and literary theorist. From 2001 to 2018 she has been a professor of the Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures and of Modern Cultures at the University of Turin, Italy.. In 2019 she has become Professor of Italian Studies and Environmental Humanities at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, the first ever to obtain this double appointment. From 2008 to 2010, she has served as President of the European Association for the Study of Literature, Culture and Environment. In 2014, Iovino was a J. K. Binder Lecturer at the University of California, San Diego. She is considered one of the main environmental philosophers of Italy.
She has published extensively on ecocriticism, literature, and environmental ethics. Iovino is the main proponent for material ecocriticism, a current of ecocritical thought. 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.

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