Sofia Varino

Dr. Sofia Varino is an author and cultural historian based in Berlin. With a focus on transnational American studies, Varino’s research and teaching interests include political ecology, science & technology studies, and transdisciplinary gender studies. Their articles and essays have appeared in leading journals including Catalyst, Shima, Somatechnics, European Journal of Women’s Studies, and Women’s Studies Quarterly, as well as in edited anthologies such as the Bloomsbury Handbook to the Medical Environmental Humanities. Their poetry has appeared in Ink Sweat and Tears, Poetry International and bad poetry quarterly, among others, and they were a finalist for the Underground Poet of the Year Award by Hole Books (UK) in 2002. Their poetry pamphlet NATURAL LANGUAGE was published by dancing girl press (Chicago, 2017) and their book AQUATOPIA: CLIMATE INTERVENTIONS, co-authored by May Joseph and published by Routledge, is now available for pre-order.

Varino is a postdoctoral researcher affiliated with the minor cosmopolitanisms RTG at the University of Potsdam's Department of English & American Studies, and an associate member at Humboldt University of Berlin’s Center for Transdisciplinary Gender Studies. They are currently working on a book about the sinuous (pre)histories of the Covid-19 pandemic in environmental, racial, and disability justice contexts. Varino holds a PhD in Cultural Studies with a Certificate in Art and Philosophy from Stony Brook State University of New York (SUNY).