Serenella Iovino Explained

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.
• Book: 10.1017/9781009063586 . Italo Calvino's Animals . 2021 . Iovino . Serenella . 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.

Notes and References

1. Web site: La Stampa - Ecocritica, ovvero della letteratura ecologica. dead. https://web.archive.org/web/20140118023515/http://lastampa.it/2014/01/17/scienza/ambiente/focus/ecocritica-ovvero-della-letteratura-ecologica-vx0hEFXO7ke2sMUePnAMNN/pagina.html. 2014-01-18. 2016-04-30.
2. Web site: Profilo del docente: Serenella Iovino - Dipartimento di Lingue e Letterature Straniere. dipartimentolingue.unito.it. 2016-04-30.
3. Web site: Serenella Iovino - Rachel Carson Center for Environment and Society - LMU Munich. 2016-04-30. carsoncenter.uni-muenchen.de.
4. Web site: University of California, San Diego, lecture. 2016-04-30. italoamericano.org.
5. Web site: Preconference Seminar - Tenth Biennial ASLE Conference - May 28 to June 1, 2013. asle.ku.edu. 2016-04-30.
6. Web site: Aldo and Jeanne Scaglione Prize for Italian Studies Winners. 2021-02-26. Modern Language Association. en.
7. Web site: Book Prizes Awarded . aais.wildapricot.org . American Association for Italian Studies . 19 June 2023 . https://web.archive.org/web/20190620153612/https://aais.wildapricot.org/book_prize . June 20, 2019 . en . 2016 . 20th and 21st centuries: Serenella Iovino. Ecocriticism and Italy: Ecology, Resistance, and Liberation. New York: Bloomsbury, 2016..
8. Lollini . Massimo . Italy and the Environmental Humanities: Landscapes, Natures, Ecologies by Serenella Iovino, Enrico Cesaretti, and Elena Past (review) . MLN . 2020 . 135 . 1 . 354–356 . . 10.1353/mln.2020.0008 . 219459154 .
9. Tait . A. G. . Environmental humanities: voices from the Anthropocene . Green Letters . 2 January 2019 . 23 . 1 . 105–108 . 10.1080/14688417.2019.1586134 . 166312720 .
10. Web site: Environmental Humanities: Voices from the Anthropocene - ASLE. 2021-02-26. en-US.
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. en.
13. Guaraldo . Emiliano . 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 . 29 December 2016 . 5 . 671–699 . 10.13128/LEA-1824-484X-20060 . it .
14. Stenning . Anna . 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 . 3 May 2016 . 20 . 2 . 218–220 . 10.1080/14688417.2016.1171490 . 164165388 .
15. LaFleur . Greta . Material Ecocriticism ed. by Serenella Iovino and Serpil Oppermann (review) . PhiloSOPHIA . 2018 . 8 . 1 . 157–162 . . 10.1353/phi.2018.0011 . 171948682 .
16. Web site: 2018-01-14. Ecologia Letteraria Serenella Iovino. 2021-02-26. Zest Letteratura Sostenibile. it-IT.
17. Web site: ECOLOGIA LETTERARIA. UNA STRATEGIA PER LA SOPRAVVIVENZA – Fermi EcoSpace. 2021-02-26. it-IT.
18. Web site: Aldo and Jeanne Scaglione Prize for Italian Studies Winners. 2021-04-29. Modern Language Association. en.