Sofia Varino, PhD, is an author and academic based in Berlin. With a focus on political ecology, their research and teaching interests include environmental and medical humanities, queer and feminist epistemologies, and transnational American Studies. 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). Their new book The Unlively: Protesting Fossil Fuel Pollution with David Buckel is forthcoming in 2026 from Routledge.
Varino teaches at Humboldt University of Berlinon topics spanning ecology, health, disability, gender, and intersectional social justice. They have published in high-impact 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 has 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. Varino has a PhD in Comparative Literary and Cultural Studies with a Certificate in Art and Philosophy from Stony Brook State University of New York (SUNY).