Sofia Varino, PhD, is a writer, researcher, and lecturer based in Berlin. Their writing practice encompasses cultural history and criticism, nonfiction, poetry, and experimental prose.
Varino is coauthor 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 coeditor of a special issue of Somatechnics on Data Matters: (Un)doing Data and Gender in the Life Sciences(Edinburgh University Press, 2019). They have published two poetry chapbooks, Natural Language (Dancing Girl Press, 2017) and You’re My Strange (Dancing Girl Press, 2025), and their writing has appeared in Exposition Review, Poetry Wales, The Hythe, Ink Sweat & Tears, and Poetry International, among other literary magazines. Their research has been published in high-impact academic journals including Catalyst, Shima, Somatechnics, European Journal of Women’s Studies, and Women’s Studies Quarterly, and featured in The Chemical Sensitivity Podcast, Unravelling the Anthropocene Podcast, and the BBC’s Talking Movies. Their new book The Unlively: Protesting Fossil Fuel Pollution with David Buckel is forthcoming in 2026 from Routledge.
Focusing on queer and feminist epistemologies, Varino’s academic research and teaching interests span political ecology, environmental and medical humanities, science and technology studies, and transnational American Studies. Varino teaches regularly on the intersectional politics of ecology, health, disability, and gender. They were nominated for the 2026 Award for Good Teaching at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin and shortlisted for the 2027 Berlin State Teaching Award.
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).