Laura Ogden
Laura Ogden is an environmental anthropologist whose work explores the politics of environmental change and conservation, contributing to theoretical discussions in feminist political ecology and ethnographic theory. She has conducted ethnographic research in the Florida Everglades, with urban communities in the United States, and in Tierra del Fuego, Chile. Her book Swamplife: People, Gators, and Mangroves Entangled in the Everglades was awarded The James M. Blaut Award for innovative scholarship in political and cultural ecology. Her recent book Loss and Wonder at the World’s End has been published by Duke University Press in 2021.
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Martina Broner
Martina Broner’s research focuses on environmental cinema and media in 21st century Latin America. Her book project, Forest Formats: Media and Environment in the Amazon, engages with Indigenous thought and feminist frameworks to examine new cinematic formats that emerge from entanglements between human and other living entities, such as trees and rivers, in the transnational Amazon rainforest. Before joining the Department of Spanish and Portuguese as assistant professor, Broner was a Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow in the Departments of Film & Media Studies and Latin American, Latino, and Caribbean Studies at Dartmouth, and she co-founded the Amazonia Section of the Latin American Studies Association.
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Matteo Gilebbi
Matteo Gilebbi (Senior Lecturer in the Department of French and Italian and affiliated faculty in Comparative Literature) examines Italian literature, cinema, and philosophy through the lenses of posthumanism, new-materialism, ecocriticism, and animal studies. His most recent work has been published in the edited volumes Italian Science Fiction and the Environmental Humanities (Liverpool Univ. Press, 2023); The Vegan Practice (“Il Modello Vegano”, SEU, 2023); Paolo Sorrentino’s Cinema and Television (Intellect, 2021); Landscapes, Natures, Ecologies: Italy and the Environmental Humanities (Univ. of Virginia Press, 2018).