Description: This roundtable features theoretically engaged, ecocritical discussion of dystopian, postapocalyptic, and eco-crime fiction, film, and landscapes in Italy. Contributors interrogate Italy’s “dark ecologies” and also examine, as Timothy Morton has encouraged, the playful, anarchic, and comedic sides of ecological crisis.

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Presider

Elena Margarita Past, Wayne State U

Speakers

Robert Allen Rushing, U of Illinois, Urbana

Enrico Vettore, California State U, Long Beach

Angelo Castagnino, U of Denver

Ilaria Tabusso Marcyan, Miami U, Oxford

Charles L. Leavitt, U of Notre Dame

Marguerite Waller, U of California, Riverside