Faculty

I teach courses on modern and contemporary Spanish literary history, cinema, comics, and culture. From 2019-2022, I served as Chair of the Department of Spanish, Italian and Portuguese at UVA. I am a...

Willis Jenkins is Hollingsworth Professor of Ethics and Chair of the Department of Religious Studies. Jenkins is author of two award-winning books, Ecologies of Grace and The Future of Ethics and co...

Michael S. Allen works on philosophy, religion, and the environment in South Asia. He is especially interested in Indian philosophy and its relevance to environmental thought, as well as in the...

Mary Kuhn is an associate professor in the English Department with specialties in 19th-century American literature and the environmental humanities. Her first book, The Garden Politic, was published...

Professor Jim Igoe is a faculty member in the Anthropology Department. He is the author of two books: Conservation and Globalization (2004) and The Nature of Spectacle (2017), both of which draw from...

Enrico Cesaretti is a Professor of Italian at UVA, and a Mellon Humanities Fellow for 2016-17. He holds a Laurea in Modern Languages and Literatures (English and German) from the University of Pisa...

Chris Gratien is currently working on a monograph provisionally titled The Mountains Are Ours: the environmental history of a late Ottoman frontier, which explores a century of ecological change in...

I specialize in the modern and contemporary novel, environmental humanities, novel studies, theory, and how literature and humanities methods can address public advocacy and policy change on climate...

I specialize in twentieth- and twenty-first-century literature, art, and culture from Latin America and the Caribbean. My research examines representations of the tropical Americas from postcolonial...