BIO

Sofia Varino, PhD, is a queer author and academic based in Berlin. With a focus on intersectional queer, decolonial, and feminist epistemologies, their work spans political ecology, science and technology studies, critical pedagogy, and transnational American studies. 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 teaches regularly at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin on topics including gender, ecology, health, disability, and intersectional politics. They have 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). Their new book on American environmentalist David Buckel is forthcoming from Routledge. 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).