Keynote Speakers
Roberto Dainotto
Duke University
Roberto Dainotto is Professor of Italian and of Literature at Duke University, where he teaches courses on modern and contemporary Italian culture. His publications include Place in Literature: Regions, Cultures, Communities (Cornell UP, 2000); Europe (in Theory) (Duke UP, 2007, and winner of the 2010 Shannon Prize in Contemporary European Studies); Mafia: A Cultural History (Reaktion Books, 2015); and the edited volume Racconti Americani del ‘900 (Einaudi Scuola, 1999). Dainotto is currently editing a monographic issue of Italian Culture on Giambattista Vico and co-editing with Fredric Jameson a volume titled Gramsci in the World. He is also completing a monograph devoted to Antonio Labriola.
Serenella Iovino,
Università di Torino
Serenella Iovino is among the leading animators of the international debate about ecocriticism and the Italian environmental humanities. A philosopher by training, she is Professor of Comparative Literature at the University of Turin. Past president and co-founder of the European Association for the Study of Literature, Culture and Environment (www.easlce.eu), she is Research Fellow of the Alexander-von-Humboldt Foundation. Author of books, essays, and edited projects, Iovino is Creative Writing & Art Section Editor of the journal Ecozon@, and serves on the editorial boards of several international journals and publication series on environmental topics, including ISLE, Green Letters, Ecozon@ and PAN: Philosophy Activism Nature. Among her recent works, Material Ecocriticism (Indiana UP, 2014), Environmental Humanities: Voices from the Anthropocene (Rowman & Littlefield, 2016, both co-edited with Serpil Oppermann), Ecologia letteraria: Una strategia di sopravvivenza (Ed. Ambiente, 2006, 2015), and Ecocriticism and Italy: Ecology, Resistance, and Liberation (Bloomsbury Academic, 2016). With the philosopher Roberto Marchesini, she has just guest-edited a double issue of the journal Relations on posthumanism titled Past the Human: Narrative Ontologies and Ontological Stories (4.1/2, 2016). With Elena Past and Enrico Cesaretti, she is currently editing the volume Landscapes, Natures, Ecologies: Italy and the Environmental Humanities, forthcoming with Virginia UP. A guest lecturer in all major European states and in Extra-European countries, in 2014 she held the J. K. Binder Lectureship for Literature at the University of California, San Diego.