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This seminar examines a variety of literary texts and films, produced in Italy from the post-war period to the contemporary era, from material eco-critical perspectives. While maintaining a focus on Italy, this course addresses broad questions within the field of environmental humanities: what is the Anthropocene and how it has been conceptualized? How is has been framed chronologically? How do we interrogate a text from an ecocritical perspective? What is a non-anthropocentric narrative? What is the task of the eco-scholar? What is the goal of environmentally concerned scholarship? What does it mean to teach ‘ecocritally’? Literary texts include works by Italo Calvino, Carlo Cassola, Paolo Volponi, Anna Maria Ortese, and films by directors Roberto Rossellini, Pier Paolo Pasolini, Pietro Marcello, and Alice Rohrwacher. Critical and theoretical readings will include Marco Armiero and Marcus Hall’s Nature and History in Modern Italy, Timothy Morton’s Humankind, Serenella Iovino Ecocriticsm and Italy, and Rosi Braidotti’s The Posthuman.