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Sofia Varino, PhD, is a non-binary author, academic, and activist based in Berlin. With a focus on queer feminist praxis, their transdisciplinary research and teaching cut across science and technology studies, environmental and medical humanities, disability politics, and intersectional gender studies. Varino’s recent book Aquatopia: Climate Interventions (Routledge, 2023), co-written with May Joseph, is a study of global environmental politics. Varino is co-editor of the Kaleidoscope book series (Routledge) and co-editor of a special issue of Somatechnics on “Data Matters: (Un)doing Data and Gender in the Life Sciences” (Edinburgh University Press, 2019). Varino has published on ecology, health, technology, media, and  gender in leading academic journals including Catalyst (forthcoming), SHIMA, Somatechnics, European Journal of Women’s Studies, and Women’s Studies Quarterly. Their poetry pamphlet Natural Language was published by Dancing Girl Press (2017) and their poetry has appeared in Poetry Wales, The Hythe, Ink Sweat & Tears, and Poetry International, among other literary magazines. Varino has a PhD in Cultural Studies with a certificate in Art & Philosophy from SUNY Stony Brook.

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Sofia Varino, PhD, is a non-binary author, academic, and activist based in Berlin. With a focus on queer feminist praxis, their transdisciplinary research and teaching cut across science and technology studies, environmental and medical humanities, disability politics, and intersectional gender studies. Varino’s recent book Aquatopia: Climate Interventions (Routledge, 2023), co-written with May Joseph, is a study of global environmental politics. Varino is co-editor of the Kaleidoscope book series (Routledge) and co-editor of a special issue of Somatechnics on “Data Matters: (Un)doing Data and Gender in the Life Sciences” (Edinburgh University Press, 2019).

Varino has published on ecology, health, technology, media, and  gender in leading academic journals including Catalyst (forthcoming), SHIMA, Somatechnics, European Journal of Women’s Studies, and Women’s Studies Quarterly. Their poetry pamphlet Natural Language was published by Dancing Girl Press (2017) and their poetry has appeared in Poetry Wales, The Hythe, Ink Sweat & Tears, and Poetry International, among other literary magazines. Varino has a PhD in Cultural Studies with a certificate in Art & Philosophy from SUNY Stony Brook.

Varino is a postdoctoral researcher affiliated with the minor cosmopolitanisms research training group (a cooperation established among the University of Potsdam, Humboldt University of Berlin and the Free University Berlin) and an associate member at the Center for Transdisciplinary Gender Studies at Humboldt, where they also teach. They are currently working on a book project about pandemic politics. 

Get in touch via email at sofia at sofiavarino.com