KAREN PINKUS

Karen Pinkus is Professor of Italian and Comparative Literature at Cornell University.  She is a minor graduate field member in Studio Art and a Faculty Fellow of the Atkinson Center for a Sustainable Future.For more than a decade, Karen has been working between Italian studies and environmental humanities with a focus on climate change. She is Editor of Diacritics. Her books include Fuel: A Speculative Dictionary, Clocking Out: The Machinery of Life in 60s Italian Cinema, exploring issues around labor, automation and repetition in Italian art, literature, design and film of the 60s, and the forthcoming Subsurface, Narrative, Climate Change.· romancestudies.cornell.edu/karen-pinkus · www.creativeprocess.info· www.oneplanetpodcast.org