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Emiliano Guaraldo

Emiliano Guaraldo

Emiliano Guaraldo

Dr.

Research Associate

SHSS-HSG
Unterer Graben 21

9000 St. Gallen
Main Focuses

Environmental Humanities

Contemporary Art

Visual Culture

Film Studies

Extractivism

Energy Transition

Fields of research

Environmental Humanities

Italian Studies

Energy Trtansitions

Extractivism

Visual Culture

Further fields of research

Science Fiction

Literature

Contemporary Art

Film Studies

Anthropocene

Rivers

Toxic Contamination

Sacrifice Zones

Education

PhD in Italian Studies, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill (2019)

M.A. in Italian Studies, University of Virginia (2012)

Professional Career

2024-

Adjunct Professor (docente a contratto), Ca' Foscari University of Venice

Course: Art and Ecology - M.A. in Environmental Humanities

2020-2023

Postdoctoral researcher in Environmental Humanities, NICHE - Ca' Foscari University of Venice

2019-2020

Research Assistant and Public Lecturer, Chair of Italian Studies, University of St. Gallen

Projects

2024

Researcher: Designing a framework for regional ecosocial transitions: A river-centered approach - University of St. Gallen

2023-24 

Researcher: Rivers of the Anthropocene - Ca' Foscari University of Venice (NICHE and the Unesco Chair for Water Heritage and Sustainable Development)

2021

Research Assistant: Art and Design Practices and Climate Change - Free University of Bolzano

2020-2021

Researcher: The Aesthetics of Extinction and Climate Change: Visualizations of the Anthropocene at the Venice Biennale - Ca' Foscari University of Venice (Center for Humanities and Social Change).

2019-20

Research Assistant: Visualizing the Anthropocene: Arts-based Representations of Planetary Environmental Change | Raccontare il disastro: Rappresentazioni letterarie ed audiovisive degli incidenti industriali nell’Italia del secondo dopoguerra - University of St. Gallen (Chair of Italian Studies)

Affiliations

Unruly Natures, University of St. Gallen

Ecological Art Practices, NICHE - Ca' Foscari University

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