Irene Depetris Chauvin is a Greenleaf Scholar-in-Residence at the Roger Thayer Stone Center for Latin American Studies and a researcher in Film Studies at the CONICET (Argentina). She has published numerous articles about youth and market culture, affectivity in contemporary cinema, memory studies, geographical and urban imaginaries, art and ecology, and film soundtracks. She is the author of Geografías afectivas. Desplazamientos, prácticas espaciales y modos de estar juntos en el cine de Argentina, Brasil y Chile (LASA, Pittsburgh, 2019), as well as co-editor of Afectos, historia y cultura visual (Prometeo, Buenos Aires, 2019), Más allá de la naturaleza. Imaginarios geográficos en la literatura y el arte latinoamericano reciente (UAH, Santiago de Chile, 2019) and Performances Afectivas. Artes y modos de lo común en América Latina (Teseo, Buenos Aires, 2022). In 2024, she organized special issues for scholarly journals focusing on various topics, including film and philosophy, ecocriticism and visual studies, and environmental humanities and affect. Since 2012, she has been a member of the research group SEGAP (Seminar on Gender, Affect, and Politics) at the University of Buenos Aires. She also contributes to the international grant project “Undoing Affects: Transnational Approaches to the Affective Turn,” which includes collaborators from Argentina, Chile, and the United Kingdom. Currently, she is working on a book tentatively titled “Listening and Touching the Extractive Zones in Latin American Cinema,” which focuses on environmental humanities and affects aesthetics. Additionally, she is writing an article on “Climate Deniers, Structural Apathy, and Ethics.” She enjoys working with students, researchers, curators as well as artists of different ages and cultural origins.