Italy and the Ecological Imagination: Ecocritical Theories and Practices - Hardcover

Benvegnù, Damiano: - Damiano Benvegnù, Ph.D., is a Senior Lecturer at Dartmouth College (USA), an Association Fellow of the Oxford Centre for Animal Ethics, and the Creative Writing and Art Editor for Ecozon@: the European Journal of Literature, Culture and the Environment. His first book, 'Animals and Animality in Primo Levi', was published in the Animal Ethics series by Palgrave Macmillan in 2018. As an environmental humanist, Dr. Benvegnù has published articles and essays ranging from critical animal studies and posthumanism to landscape theory, soundscape ecology, and ecocriticism. Currently an ACLS Fellow, Dr. Benvegnù's research lies at the intersection of digital and environmental humanities.Gilebbi, Matteo: - Matteo Gilebbi holds a Ph.D. in Italian from the University of Wisconsin-Madison and is currently teaching courses in Italian language, literature, and culture at Dartmouth College. His research focuses on the connections between literature, cinema, and philosophy, using theories from ecocriticism, posthumanism, new-materialism, and animal studies. Dr. Gilebbi's most recent work has been published in the edited volumes 'Paolo Sorrentino's Cinema and Television' (Intellect, 2021), 'Towards the River's Mouth' (Lexington Books, 2018), 'Landscapes, Natures, Ecologies: Italy and the Environmental Humanities' (University of Virginia Press, 2018), 'The Carol J. Adams Reader: Writings and Conversations 1995-2015' (Bloomsbury, 2016), and 'Animals and the Posthuman in Italian Literature and Film' (Palgrave Macmillan, 2014). He is also the co-founder of the "Anthropocene Group" at Dartmouth, whose mission is to provide a venue for faculty, graduate students, post-doctoral researchers, and undergraduates from the sciences, social sciences, and humanities to develop a cross-disciplinary understanding of the Anthropocene.