Ilaria Tabusso Marcyan

Ilaria Tabusso Marcyan holds a Ph.D. in Italian Studies and Comparative Literature from the University of California, San Diego and is a Visiting Assistant Professor of Italian at Miami University in Oxford, Ohio, where she also coordinated in 2020 the Institute for Food Farm, a Provost Interdisciplinary Innovation project to engage the Miami University community around issues of food, health, and sustainable agriculture. Her research investigates how a comparative perspective on Italian farming and contemporary food cultures can help reframe current global environmental, ecological, social, and ethical issues related to landscape, agriculture and what she calls “new farmers”. Her article on Slow Food and Terra Madre with a conversation with Carlo Petrini was published in 2018 in the volume Italy and the Environmental Humanities. She is one of the editors of the forthcoming volume titled Contesting Extinctions: Decolonial and Regenerative Futures. Tabusso Marcyan is currently working on a manuscript on Italian resistance and food justice.