Claudia Lombardo
Education
MA, Environmental Humanities, Roma Tre University, Italy
MA, Modern Philology and Italian Studies, University of Palermo, Italy
BA, Italian Language and Literature, University of Palermo, Italy
About Claudia
Claudia is a Teaching Fellow and Ph.D. student in Italian at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, where she integrates her expertise in Italian Philology and Environmental Humanities to explore the intricate relationships between energy, environment, and society.
Her research delves into the literary and artistic representation of damaged and resurgent landscapes within the Mediterranean region, emphasizing how cultural misunderstandings of energy production and consumption contribute to both environmental degradation and the erosion of social relationships. Claudia seeks to uncover the cultural narratives that influence our interactions with energy and the environment, focusing on how these narratives emerge from the interplay of contemporary literature, ecocriticism, and interdisciplinary studies.
In addition to her academic work, Claudia collaborates with "Landescape," a Sicilian curatorial platform, where she writes insightful texts and manifestos for contemporary art exhibitions, bridging scholarly research with creative expression and deepening her exploration of the intersection between culture and environmental concerns.
Publications
Lombardo, Claudia. "Haunted Sicilian Landscapes: Orazio Labbate Petrovisions and the Italian Energy Hubris." Lagoonscapes, vol. 4, no. 1, 2024, pp. 163-180.
Una valorizzazione negata. Torri di Ligini: cronaca di un non finito della demolizione, NU3, 2019.
Karen Pinkus, Fuel. A Speculative Dictionary, Lebenswelt, 12, 2018 (Book Review).
Chapters
Lorenzo D’Agostino, Claudia Lombardo, "La città di Calvino: geografie urbane dell’Antropocene", Sfide. Temi e riflessioni per un futuro equo e sostenibile, Nuova Trauben, 2023, pp. 264 - 286.
Conferences
“Corre sott’acqua, che è alta qualche spanna, una strada”: The marsh in Retablo (1987), elemental politics and underwater cultural routes in Sicily, American Association for Italian Studies (AAIS), Sant'Anna Institute, Sorrento (Italy), June 6-9 2024.
"Energy Hybris: Literature and Ecology of the Sicilian Landscape", Graduate Symposium Johns Hopkins - Yale, "Mutamenti. Overcoming Crisis", October 27-28, 2023, Yale University.
"The Landscapes of Sicily. Literature, Ecology, and Perception in the heart of the Mediterranean", Italy, the Mediterranean, and the South - Interdisciplinary Workshop, University of Oxford, 15 June 2023.
"Italo Calvino's A Plunge into Real Estate: landscape memory loss and waste metabolism of the Ligurian Riviera", UNC Chapel Hill Carolina Conference for Romance Studies, March 2023.
"Giorgio Manganelli e l’Isola Pianeta. Conversazioni interspecie da terre “preumane", Natureculture, species and planetary thinking in the Italian literature of the Anthropocene, American Association of Italian Studies (AAIS ) Conference, Bologna, May 29 to June 1, 2022.
Awards & Honors
Summer Research Fellowship from the Graduate School, UNC - Chapel Hill (Summer 2024)
Isabella Payne Cooper Graduate Travel & Research Fellowship, 2023
Armida Marconi Falvo Graduate Award for excellence in Italian Studies, 2022
Typical Courses Taught
ITAL 101, Elementary Italian I
ITAL 102, Elementary Italian II
ITAL 203 Intermediate Italian
ITAL 401 Beginning Accelerated Italian
ITAL 402. Intermediate Accelerated Italian
Graduate Research Consultant for ROML 89. Discovering Animals: Culture and Creativity (Prof. Iovino; Spring 2024)
Graduate Research Consultant for ITAL 525. Italo Calvino in English (Prof. Iovino; Fall 2024)
Course Coordinator ITAL 203 (Fall 2024)
Guest Teaching
"Animal Presences. Archetypal Psychology, Conversations and, Impossible Interviews in Italian Literature and Beyond”, Graduate Seminar, University of North Carolina–Chapel Hill, October 17, 2023. (Invited by Professor Serenella Iovino).