BIO

Sofia Varino, PhD, is an academic and activist based in Berlin. With a focus on political ecology, their research and teaching interests include interspecies studies, environmental and disability justice, queer and feminist epistemologies, critical pedagogy, and aesthetics. Varino is co-author of Aquatopia: Climate Interventions (Routledge, 2023), which was selected for a 2023 Spotlight by the Association for the Study of Literature and the Environment, 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 in leading academic journals including Catalyst, Shima, Somatechnics, European Journal of Women’s Studies, and Women’s Studies Quarterly, and their research has been featured in The Chemical Sensitivity Podcast, Unravelling the Anthropocene Podcast, and the BBC’s Talking Movies. Varino’s poetry has appeared in Poetry Wales, The Hythe, Ink Sweat & Tears, and Poetry International, among other literary magazines, and their first poetry pamphlet Natural Language was published by Dancing Girl Press (2017). A second pamphlet titled You’re My Strange is forthcoming in 2025. Varino holds a PhD in Comparative Literary and Cultural Studies with a Certificate in Art and Philosophy from Stony Brook State University of New York (SUNY) and is a postdoctoral researcher affiliated with the minor cosmopolitanisms RTG at the University of Potsdam in Germany.