Sofia Varino, PhD, is an author and academic based in Berlin. With a focus on health and ecology, their research and teaching interests span environmental and medical humanities, science and technology studies, intersectional gender studies, and critical pedagogy. Varino is coauthor ofAquatopia: 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 from Routledge.
Varino teaches at Humboldt University of Berlin on topics including ecology, health, disability, gender, and 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 TheChemical SensitivityPodcast, Unravelling the AnthropocenePodcast, 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 poems have appeared in Poetry Wales, The Hythe, Ink Sweat & Tears, and Poetry International, among other literary magazines. Varino holds a PhD in Cultural Studies with a Certificate in Art and Philosophy from Stony Brook State University of New York (SUNY).