Hello and welcome! I am a writer and public scholar based in Berlin. With a focus on intersectional queer feminisms, my research and teaching interests include transnational American studies, environmental and medical humanities, science and technology studies, and critical pedagogy. 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). I have published in leading academic journals including Catalyst, Somatechnics, Shima, European Journal of Women’s Studies, and Women’s Studies Quarterly, and my research has been featured in The Chemical Sensitivity Podcast, Unravelling the Anthropocene Podcast, and the BBC’s Talking Movies. My poetry chapbook You’re My Strange is forthcoming in 2025 from Dancing Girl Press, who also published my first chapbook Natural Language in 2017. I hold a PhD in Comparative Literary and Cultural Studies with a Certificate in Art and Philosophy from Stony Brook State University of New York (SUNY).
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.