Specializations
Latin American studies; environmental humanities
Publications and Presentations
- Varela, Fernando. "Taxidermy and the Environment in Cristina García’s The Agüero Sisters." MELUS, vol. 49, no. 3, 2024, pp. 95-105. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1093/melus/mlae048
- Varela, Fernando. "Biophilia and Ecophobia in Santiago Nazarian’s Biofobia." Special issue on environmental humanities, Hispanófila, edited by Alicia Rivero, vol. 202, 2024, pp. 53-63. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/hsf.2024.a949641
- Varela, Fernando. "Myxomatosis and Radioactivity in Carlos Saura’s La caza (The Hunt, 1966): On Biopolitics and Extinction." Environmental Humanities, vol. 14, no. 1, 2022, pp. 129-44. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/22011919-9481473
- Varela, Fernando. "Vegetal Life and the Baroque in Alejo Carpentier’s The Lost Steps." ISLE: Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature and Environment, vol. 28, no. 3, 2021, pp. 917–31. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1093/isle/isz116
- Varela, Fernando. "Machado de Assis, Houses, and the Gaze: Between the Universal and the Local." Hispania, vol. 103, no. 1, 2020, pp. 87-95. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/hpn.2020.0003
