Department of Foreign Languages, Literatures and Modern Cultures

• Environmental Humanities.
• Ecocriticism (Theory and Practice).
• Landscape and Place (as related to issues of Ethics, Culture, Ecology, Bioregionalism)
• Ethics and Justice (as related to issues of Global Environment, Society, Gender, Interspecies relationships). 
• Feminist Ethics and feminist ecocriticism; the Posthuman and Material Turn.
• Italo Calvino.
• Comparative Literatures, with focus on ecological issues.
• Literature, ethics, and Naturphilosophie in Germany during the Age of Goethe.

Past President of EASLCE, 
European Association for the Study of Literature, Culture, and Environment (www.easlce.eu) 

Experienced Researcher and Alumna of the Alexander-von-Humboldt Stiftung

Member of the Advisory Board of ENHANCE, Innovative Training Network (ITN) on Environmental Humanities funded by EU-Programme Marie Skłodowska Curie (http://enhanceitn.eu)

Section Editor, Creative Writing and Arts, Ecozon@: European Journal of Literature and Environment (www.ecozona.eu)  

Series Co-editor, “Studien zur Kultur und Umwelt/Studies in Culture and Environment,” Bern & New York: Peter Lang.

Member of the Advisory Board of the "Ecocritical Theory and Practice" Series of Lexington Books. 

Member of the Editorial Board of ISLE: Interdisciplinary Studies of Literature and Environment (www.isle.oxfordjournals.org) 

Member of the Advisory Board of Ecozon@: European Journal of Literature and Environment (www.ecozona.eu) 

Member of the Advisory Board of Green Letters: Studies in Ecocriticism (http://asle.org.uk/green-letters/) 

Member of the Advisory Board of PAN: Philosophy Activism Nature (http://www.panjournal.net/) 

Member of the Advisory Board of Relations: Beyond Anthropocentrism (http://www.ledonline.it/index.php/Relations/) 

Member of the Advisory Board of Zooanthropology: The International Journal of Human–Animal Relationship (Director: Roberto Marchesini, Cambridge Scholars Publishing) 

Member of the Ad-hoc Committee for Translation Grants of the Association for the Study of Literature and Environment (ASLE) 

Founder and coordinator of the International Research Group in the Environmental Humanities at the University of Turin, http://www.dipartimentolingue.unito.it/contents/os-researchgroups-environmentalhumanities.asp