Sofia Varino

Sofia Varino is a visual culture scholar studying body practices in the life sciences with a special focus on the materiality and sociality of immunological phenomena. Her research is located at the intersection of technoscience studies, feminist materialisms, posthumanism and environmental theory. She is completing her Ph.D in Cultural Studies at Stony Brook University with a dissertation titled „Vital Differences: Indeterminacy and the Biomedical Body,“ where she examines how embodied and gendered differences destabilize immunological knowledge practices by introducing disorder and uncertainty.

Research fields: Feminist Science Studies/New Materialisms