Dr Damiano Benvegnu

Reader in Italian Studies and Comparative Literature

Researcher profile

Phone

+44 (0)1334 46 4249

Email

db307@st-andrews.ac.uk

Office

Room 12

Location

United Colleges

Office hours

Tuesday 10-12

 

Research areas

Dr. Benvegnù joined the University of St Andrews in 2023. Prior to coming to St Andrews, he held academic positions at Dartmouth College and at the University of Virginia. His research and teaching interests are interdisciplinary and engage with comparative literature, critical theory, epistemology and philosophy of language, digital humanities, and the environmental humanities.

Selected publications

• Waste and discard in Italy and the Mediterranean: theories, practices, literature and film

  Benvegnu, D. (Editor), Cariello, M. (Editor), Gilebbi, M. (Editor) & Parati, G. (Editor), 1 Oct 2024, Oxford: Peter Lang. 306 p. (Italian modernities; vol. 44)

  Research output: Book/Report › Book

• The environmental humanities and Italy

  Cesaretti, E., Biasillo, R. & Benvegnu, D., 22 Mar 2023, Oxford research encyclopedia of environmental science. Shugart, H. H. (ed.). Oxford: Oxford University Press

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Entry for encyclopedia/dictionary

• Italy and the ecological imagination: ecocritical theories and practices

  Benvegnu, D. (Editor) & Gilebbi, M. (Editor), 1 Sept 2022, Wilmington, DE: Vernon Press. 187 p. (Series on climate change and society)

  Research output: Book/Report › Book

• “Gramsci’s method” thirty years later: a special issue dedicated to the memory of Joseph A. Buttigieg

  Benvegnu, D. (Editor), Leavitt, C. (Editor) & Cangiano, M. (Editor), 1 Aug 2022, In: Italian Culture. 40, 1

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Special issue › peer-review

• Open access

  The Dialogues Bioregional Project: Landscape Ecology in Central Italy from the Sixth Century to the Present

  Benvegnu, D., 31 Dec 2019, In: Humanist Studies & the Digital Age. 6, 1

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

• Animals and Animality in Primo Levi’s Work.

  Benvegnu, D., 2018, London: Palgrave Macmillan. (Animal Ethics)

  Research output: Book/Report › Book

 

See more publications