• PHD Philosophy and Humanities
(Field: German Philosophy of Goethe's Age), Università di Urbino "Carlo Bo" 1998
World Area Of Focus:
• International 50%-74% • Western Europe/European Union (EU) 100%
Languages:
• French (professional proficiency) • German (professional proficiency) • Italian (native/bilingual proficiency) • Spanish (limited working proficiency)
Specialization:
Italian Studies are 20th-century Italian literature, culture, and film; Environmental Humanities; Ecocriticism; Ecofeminism; Global environmental justice; Cultural landscapes, bioregionalism and place ethics; Humanism and posthumanism; Mediterranean studies; New materialisms; Land art; Environmental Philosophies and Ethics. Disciplinary intersections between literature, sciences, and the arts; The Age of Goethe.
Distinctions:
• 2017-2018 Carson Fellowship, The Rachel Carson Center for Environment and Society, Ludwig-Maximilians Universität, München.
• 2017-- MLA’s Aldo and Jeanne Scaglione Prize for Italian Studies for Ecocriticism and Italy: Ecology, Resistance, and Liberation.
• 2017-- Book Prize of the American Association for Italian Studies for Ecocriticism and Italy: Ecology, Resistance, and Liberation (Category: 20th-21st Century).
• 2017-- Seal of Excellence of the Marie Skłodowska Curie Action (H2020) for “ELICIT-The Environmental Humanities and Italo Calvino: Interpretation, Transdisciplinarity, and Educational Strategies.”
• 2015-2015 Alexander-von-Humboldt-Stiftung Follow-up Fellowship (3 months). Hosting institution: Rachel Carson Center for Environment and Society, Ludwig-Maximilians Universität, München. • 2015-2015 Research Grant from the Carl-von-Siemens-Stiftung (3 months).
• 2014--- Holder of the “J. K. Binder” Lectureship in Literature, University of California, San Diego. • 2012-2012 Visiting Professor at the School of Languages, Literatures, Cultures and Linguistics, Monash University (Clayton), Australia. • 2010-2012 Alexander-von-Humboldt Fellowship for Experienced Researcher. Hosting institution: Institut für Anglistik und Amerikanistik, Universität Augsburg. • 1998-1999 European Study-Abroad Specialization Grant from the Italian Ministry of External Affairs. Hosting Institutions Ludwig-Maximilians Universität, Munich, and Bayerische Akademie der Wissenschaften.
• 1994-1996 Istituto Italiano per gli Studi Filosofici (Italian Institute for Philosophical Studies), Naples: Specialization Grant in Philosophy of Science.
Dissertations and Theses Supervised in Past 5 Years:
25
Relevant Courses Taught:
• ITAL 385 ITAL 385: Italian Landscapes: Italy in the UNESCO (Research-Exposure Course) • ITAL 830 Italy’s Landscapes of Resistance: Cultivating Creativity in Critical Environments • ITAL 830 Ecocriticism: Major Theoretical Trends in Conversation with Italian Literature • ITAL 830 830, Layers of the Anthropocene: Italo Calvino and Italy. • ROML 89-001 Environmental Issues in Literature and Film
Recent Publications:
• 2019 Iovino, S. (2019). The Reverse of the Sublime: Dilemmas (and Resources) of the Anthropocene Garden. Followed by a Conversation with Tamiko Thiel. RCC Perspectives: Transformations in Environment and Society 2019, no. 3. (Monographic Issue)
• 2018 Iovino, S., Enrico Cesaretti and Elena M. Past, eds. (2018). Italy and the Environmental Humanities: Landscapes, Natures, Ecologies. Charlottesville: The University of Virginia Press.
• 2017 Oppermann, S. and S. Iovino, eds. (2017). Environmental Humanities: Voices from the Anthropocene. London: Rowman and Littlefield International.
• 2017 Iovino, S. (2017). Mediterranean Ecocriticism. ISLE 24.2: 325-340.
• 2016 Iovino, S. (2016). Ecocriticism and Italy: Ecology, Resistance, and Liberation. London: Bloomsbury. (Winner of the MLA’s Aldo and Jeanne Scaglione Prize for Italian Studies and the Book Prize of the American Association for Italian Studies, Category: 20th-21st Century.)
• 2014 Iovino, S. and Serpil Oppermann, eds. (2014). Material Ecocriticism. Bloomington: Indiana University Press. 375 pp.
• 2014 Iovino, S. (2014) Storie dell’altro mondo: Calvino post-umano. Modern Language Notes (MLN), 129/1 (Italian Issue): 118-138.
• 2012 Iovino, S. (2012). Stories from the Thick of Things: Introducing Material Ecocriticism. Part one of S. Iovino and S. Oppermann Theorizing Material Ecocriticism: A Diptych. ISLE—Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature and Environment, 19.3: 449-460.
• 2006 Iovino, S. (2006). Ecologia letteraria. Una strategia di sopravvivenza. Preface by Cheryll Glotfelty; Afterword by Scott Slovic, Milan. Edizioni Ambiente. 157 pp. (E-book reprint: 2014; 2nd Edition: 2015).
• 2004 Iovino, S. (2004). Filosofie dell’ambiente. Natura, Etica, Società. Rome: Carocci. 159 pp. (Reprinted 2006, 2007, 2008).
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