Vetri Nathan
About
Dr. Vetri Nathan's research and teaching interests include Global Migrations and Postcolonial Theory, Environmental and Public Humanities, Food Studies, Italian Cinema and Media Studies. His book, Marvelous Bodies: Italy’s New Migrant Cinema (2017), explores contemporary Italian films released between 1990 and 2010 that represent the nation's cultural challenges caused by immigration from the Global South. At time of publication, Marvelous Bodies was the first monograph on the subject in English or Italian. He holds his PhD in Italian from Stanford University (2009) and is currently working on a new book and several articles and research projects and that address diverse yet pressing global questions related to nationhood, biopolitics, natural ecosystems, climate change and new mediatic realities.