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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...