Serena Ferrando

Peer-Reviewed Articles and Book Chapters

“Poesia come strumento ecologico” (“Poetry as Ecological Tool”). Rivista di studi italiani (Journal of Italian Studies), 41 (2), 2023: 20-42.

“Gardening the Symbiocene: Andrea Zanzotto’s and Daria Menicanti’s Poetic Hospitability.” Ecozon@: European Journal of Literature, Culture and Environment 14 (1), 2023: 119-135.

-“Cravasco: An Example of Slow Violence.” Italy and the Ecological Imagination. Ecocritical Theories and Practices. Damiano Benvegnù and Matteo Gilebbi eds. Wilmington, DE: Version Press, Series on Climate Change and Society, 2022, Chapter 6, pp. 91-108.

-“The Navigli Project. A Digital Uncovering of Milan’s Aquatic Geographies.” Italian Culture. 37 (2), 2020: 150-158.

-with Mark Wardecker, “Noisemakers! Putting the Analog in the Digital Humanities.” Humanist Studies & the Digital Age (HS&DA). 6 (1), 2019: 59-68. (First author).

-“Terra in Dino Buzzati’s Fantastic Landscapes.” Landscapes, Natures, Ecologies. Italy and the Environmental Humanities. Serenella Iovino, Enrico Cesaretti, and Elena Past eds. Charlottesville and London: University of Virginia Press, 2017, pp. 88-97.

-“‘Un’oscura sete.’ Natura nella Milano di Milo De Angelis.” Italica. 94 (2), Summer 2017: 217-233.

-with Giorgio Sancristoforo, “Audioscan Milano. Exploring Avant-Garde Sound Practices via Digital Humanities.” HS&DA. 5 (1), 2017: 108-115. (First author).

-“Water in Milan. A Cultural History of the Navigli.” Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature and Environment (ISLE), 21, 2014: 374-393.

Co-Edited Peer-Reviewed Journal Issues

-Rivista di studi italiani (Journal of Italian Studies), issue on Italian poetry and ecology, co-edited. 41 (2), 2023. (287 pages)

Articles in Edited Volumes

-“Mi ricordo Alda Merini.” Testimonianze. Grittini, Giuliano, ed. Milano: Incisioni Arte, 2010.

-“Alda Merini and Marilyn Monroe. Icone dell’amore perduto.” Catalogo Mostra “Marilyn Monroe e l’arte della bellezza.” Arona, June 2010.

Book Reviews

-Laura di Bianco. Wandering women. Urban ecologies of Italian feminist filmmaking. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2022. Journal of Modern Italian Studies. 28 (5): 639-641. DOI: 10.1080/1354571X.2023.2236404.

-Gary Green and Gianluca Rizzo. Obelisks. Ravenna: Danilo Montanari Editore, 2021. Forum Italicum. 0 (0), 2022: 1-2.

-Karen Pinkus, Clocking Out. The Machinery of Life in 1960s Italian Cinema. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2020. Annali d’italianistica. 38, 2020: 445-447.

-Catherine Ramsey-Portolano, Performing Bodies. Female Illness in Italian Literature and Cinema (1860-1920). Vancouver: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 2018. Quaderni d’italianistica. 40 (2), 2019: 199-201.

-Deborah Amberson. Giraffes in the Garden of Italian Literature. Italica. 92 (4), Winter 2015: 1010-1013.

-Franca Pellegrini. La tempesta originale. La vita di Alda Merini in poesia. Italica. 85 (2-3), Summer-Autumn 2008: 370-372.

Translations

-“Alda Merini and Marilyn Monroe. Icons of Lost Love.” Mantis. 8, 2009: 44-67.

-The Other Truth. Diary of An Other. (A translation of Alda Merini’s L’altra verita`. Diario di una diversa) Milano: L’Incisione, 2007.