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 will be published by Duke University Press in early 2021.
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Damiano Benvegnù
As an environmental humanist, Damiano Benvegnù’s research ranges from critical animal studies and posthumanism to landscape theory, soundscape ecology, ecocriticism, and environmental history. He is an Association Fellow of the Oxford Centre for Animal Ethics and the Creative Writing and Art Editor for Ecozon@: the European Journal of Literature, Culture and the Environment. His first book, Animals and Animality in Primo Levi, has been published in the Animal Ethics series by Palgrave Macmillan in 2018. Damiano is currently working on a new project at the intersection of digital and environmental humanities that in 2020 has been awarded a CompX Faculty Grant by the Neukom Institute for Computational Science. With Matteo Gilebbi, he organizes the meetings of the Anthropocene Group at Dartmouth College.
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Matteo Gilebbi
Matteo Gilebbi, Lecturer in the Department of French and Italian, 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 Paolo Sorrentino’s Cinema and Television (Intellect, 2021); Towards the River’s Mouth (Lexington 2018); Landscapes, Natures, Ecologies: Italy and the Environmental Humanities (Uni. of Virginia Press, 2018); The Carol J. Adams Reader: Writings and Conversations 1995-2015 (Bloomsbury, 2016); and Animals and the Posthuman in Italian Literature and Film (Palgrave Macmillan, 2014). He is also the co-founder of the Anthropocene Group at Dartmouth, whose mission is to provide a venue for faculty, graduate students, post-doctoral researchers, and undergraduates from the sciences, social sciences, and humanities to develop a cross-disciplinary understanding of the Anthropocene.