Titles

• Senior Global Futures Scholar, Global Institute of Sustainability and Innovation, Julie Ann Wrigley Global Futures Laboratory
• Assistant Professor, Environmental Humanities and Italian, School of International Letters and Cultures

Biography

Serena Ferrando’s research focuses primarily on water and modern/contemporary Italian poetry. Her book project, Cultural Hydrographies: Water, Poetry, and Environment, offers an original ecocritical-cultural narrative of the relationship between poetry and nature in the city of Milan, Italy and three Milanese poets. Ferrando directs a digital humanities exhibit about Milan’s water canals called Navigli Project. She also studies environmental and experimental noisescapes and offers a course titled “Noisemakers! Tracing the History of Modern Music in Italy” where students build noise instruments and develop multimedia projects that utilize sound mapping to create a multisensory experience of the world. Her publications span across the fields of literature, ecocriticism, and digital humanities.

Education

• Graduate Certificate, Digital Humanities, University of Victoria, British Columbia, 2017
• PhD, Italian Studies, Stanford University, 2013
• MA, Comparative Literature, University of Texas-Austin, 2005
• MA, American Studies, University of Texas-Austin, 2001
• BA, Modern Foreign Languages, Università degli Studi di Genova, 1998

Expertise

• digital humanities
• environmental humanities
• Italian
• sound studies