I am an academic and activist based in Berlin. With a focus on political ecology, my research and teaching interests include interspecies studies, environmental and disability justice, queer and feminist epistemologies, critical pedagogy, and aesthetics. I am co-author of Aquatopia: Climate Interventions (Routledge, 2023), which was selected for a 2023 Spotlight by the Association for the Study of Literature and the Environment, and co-editor of a special issue of Somatechnics on Data Matters: (Un)doing Data and Gender in the Life Sciences (Edinburgh University Press, 2019).
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Aquatopia: Climate Interventions (Routledge, 2023) documents over a decade of participatory urban ecology projects by Harmattan Theater, an environmental performance ensemble based in New York City. Co-authored by Harmattan’s founding director May Joseph and associate director Sofia Varino, Aquatopia offers a critical account of interspecies, transdisciplinary engagements with climate change, colonial histories, and public space in precarious water-bound sites.
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Directed by May Joseph (2013)
Far Rockaway was performed by Harmattan Theater on the anniversary of 9/11 in 2013, at Tribute Park, a NYC public park built as a memorial tribute to the over three hundred firefighters who died in the World Trade Center in 2001. The Park was washed away by Hurricane Sandy. Harmattan performed at the Park to mark the onslaught of Hurricane Sandy on the Far Rockaway peninsular, particularly Beach 116, which was entirely destroyed by the storm surge.
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ASLE 2023 Spotlight by the Association for the Study of Literature and the Environment.
Aquatopia: Climate Interventions (Routledge, 2023) by May Joseph and Sofia Varino was selected for the ASLE 2023 Spotlight by the Association for the Study of Literature and the Environment.