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Prof. Marcone researches and teaches on ideas and representations of nature, and of the role of humans in such views, in literatures and art from Latin America, and occasionally in Latina/o and Spanish cultures. He follows an ecocritical approach, that is to say, to study the relationships between cultureand its natural and social environments in light of current ecological and environmental theories in the Humanities and the Social Sciences; and in the context of current environmental issues, global or local, and movements. He focuses on the rise of ecological or environmental awareness in Latin American literature under two waves of economic globalization and modernization of society: the period between 1880s-1930s, and the period that has started since the end of the Cold War. He pays special attention to discourses on Amazonia and tropical forests, or the quintessential landscape in Latin America for criticizing modernity, or for apologizing for it, as well as for denouncing the idealization of wilderness. Among his other interests, he has directed or supervised two summer study abroad programs in Salamanca, Spain, and in Cusco, Peru.
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