People

Manuel is a student in the Department of Spanish, Italian, and Portuguese. His research explores literary representations of the connection between humans and other-than-human beings. He is interested...

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...

Sam Amago teaches courses on modern and contemporary Spanish literary history, cinema, comics, and culture. From 2019-2022, he served as Chair of the Department of Spanish, Italian and Portuguese at...

Enrico Cesaretti’s current research is located at the juncture of Italian Studies and ecocriticism. With Serenella Iovino and Elena Past he co-edited Italy and the Environmental Humanities (2018). His...

Adrienne Ghaly is a Research Specialist in Environmental Humanities at UVA working on EH labs in coastal futures, integrating ethics into climate change research, planetary pressures on sacred sites...

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...

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...