Serena Ferrando

Book (forthcoming on May 19, 2026)

Channeling Nature: Plants, Animals, and Water in Italian Poetry (University of Toronto Press).

Peer-Reviewed Articles and Book Chapters

“Poetry as Island and Archipelagic Thinking.” (Forthcoming in May 2026 in the Poesiæuropa 2025 Conference Proceedings, Morlacchi Editore, Perugia, Italy)

“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

“Emilio Villa’s Poetic Soundscapes in the Digital Realm.” Rossocorpolingua. Supplemento. September 3, 2025: 25-36.

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.