Sofia Varino, PhD, is an author and academic based in Berlin. Their writing spans cultural history and criticism, nonfiction, memoir, and poetry.
Varino is the author of The Unlively: Protesting Fossil Fuel Pollution with David Buckel(Routledge, 2026), 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 Somatechnics: Journal of Bodies – Technologies – Power on “(Un)doing Data and Gender in the Life Sciences” (Edinburgh University Press, 2019). With a focus on queer and decolonial feminist epistemologies, Varino’s research interests include political ecology, environmental and medical humanities, science and technology studies, and transnational American Studies. 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 on 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, They teach regularly at Humboldt University of Berlin on the intersectional politics of ecology, health, disability, and gender. They were nominated for the 2026 Humboldt University of Berlin’s Award for Good Teaching 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).