News, working papers, and miscellanea
Paper: “A Gentle Extinction: Interspecies Care and Deep Time in Speculative Fiction”
My paper “A Gentle Extinction: Interspecies Care and Deep Time in Speculative Fiction” is already published in early access on ISLE’s website! Speculative fiction has long imagined human extinction as a disastrous collapse. This paper proposes the concept of gentle extinction, an alternative mode of imagining this scenario based on the redrawing of humanity’s boundaries…
Paper: Romantic Individualism and Reactionary Care in Speculative Environmental Fiction
My paper “Romantic Individualism and Reactionary Care in Speculative Environmental Fiction”, published in the journal Humanities, is available in Open Access! Speculative environmental fiction can inscribe reactionary responses to ecological crises even without intending to. This article examines Shinkai Makoto’s 2019 film and novel Weathering with You to show how it inadvertently encodes what I…
Paper: “Care as resistance and care as hope: ecocritical affect in Tawada Yōko’s The Emissary and Fernanda Trías’s Pink Slime”
I am happy to announce that my paper “Care as resistance and care as hope: ecocritical affect in Tawada Yōko’s The Emissary and Fernanda Trías’s Pink Slime”, published in Japan Forum’s special issue on decolonising Japanese fictions, is available: This paper explores how representations of nonhegemonic politics of care intersect with environmental degradation to reimagine…
Disasters Maybe Podcast is Out!
I’m excited to share Disasters Maybe, the podcast about disaster imagination in contemporary fiction that is a companion to the Disaster Distortion project, is out! Six episodes, thirty minutes each, in which I talk with scholars and writers about what imagining catastrophes can and cannot do for our understanding of the crises we are living through.…
Spring activities 2026
This has also been a very active spring, which has been dominated by different conference papers that have been a nice distraction from the multiple writing commitments, mostly the ongoing monograph. In late February I presented a paper on Kawakami Hiromi’s Under the Eye of the Big Bird for the Queer Ecologies and the Temporal…
Melbourne research stay
The third and last research stay of the year, the one that closed the circle opened in February in Mexico and followed in June in Tokyo, brought me to Melbourne at the invitation of Debjani Ganguly and Killian Quigley from the Institute of Humanities at ACU. I spent the month of October happily shifting between…
Summer activities 2025
This has been a very prolific and exciting summer, which started at the end of Spring and has been filled with different public activities: workshops, conferences, and symposia. As mentioned in the previous post, in May I joined Chiara Xausa and Marco Caracciolo for a workshop at Ghent University on ecofeminism, as part of the…
Editor for the Special Issue Cli-Fi as Dystopia, Utopia, or Realism, in Theory Now
I am thrilled to announce that the special issue I have edited for Theory Now called “Cli-Fi as Dystopia, Utopia, or Realism: Understanding the Challenges of Imagining the Climate Crisis” is now available to read in full open access through their website! In this issue, you will find very exciting works from a diverse range…
Ecofeminist panel at Ghent University Spring 2025
Springtime 2025 in Ghent has been marked by a lot of emphasis on setting up the analytical framework of the project, testing the methodological setup of thematic comparative analysis through empirical stress-testing and some valuable help from my colleagues at the department, and preparing some texts on these initial outcomes, hopefully to be published once…
Research stay in Mexico Winter 2025
Going back to Mexico, at this point, is always a treat. Not only did I have the chance of seeing old friends and acquaintances, walking the lovely yet unevenly paved streets, and struggle against my role in the gentrification of the city, but also it was a wonderful and productive experience for my project. I…
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