- Instructor
- World Languages & Literature
Additional Information
Biography
Sara Marzioli received her Ph.D. in Comparative Literature from the Pennsylvania State University. She has taught Black American and Black European cultures, Italian Studies, Globalization and Migration literatures, and World Literature and Cinema. She is at work on a book manuscript titled, The Color of The Archive: Afro-Modernism Between the Atlantic and The Mediterranean, which brings into conversation Twentieth-Century African American and Italian writers and film directors, whose work addresses the intersection of history, narrative, and coloniality in Europe and the black Atlantic. She has published in African American Review, Atlantic Studies, and Modernism/Modernity.Education
- Ph.D. Comparative Literature, The Pennsylvania State University
(Modernity and the African Diaspora in Italy and the black Atlantic)
- M.A., Comparative Literature, The Pennsylvania State University
(Francophone and African American Cultures)
- B.A., Foreign Languages and Literatures (English and Russian)
Research Areas
- Black European Studies
- Cultures of the Atlantic African Diaspora
- Afterlives of Modernity and Coloniality
- Narrative and History
- World Cinema
- Migration Literature and Citizenship in Europe
Teaching Areas
- Interdisciplinary Studies
- The Black Atlantic and Black Europe
- World Cinema
- Italian Studies
Recent Publications
“Terra! Ma nessuna patria di Ti-Noune Moïse. La cura della democrazia e della storia familiare tra Haiti e Italia.” Interview and introductory essay. Roots-Routes. Research on Visual Cultures. Vol. 42, May-August 2023. <https://www.roots-routes.org/anno-13-n-42-maggio-agosto-2023-cura-care-cure-curate/>.
“Beneatha’s Developing Pan-Africanism and Lorraine Hansberry’s Activism in A Raisin in the Sun.” Invited contribution to A Raisin in the Sun by Lorraine Hansberry. Critical Insights Series, edited by Paul Bailey, Salem Press, 2023. 195-213.
“Cannibalizing the Black Atlantic in F. T. Marinetti’s Interwar Writing.” Interdisciplinary Literary Studies: A Journal of Criticism and Theory. Vol. 23, Issue 4, 2021. 547-572.
“Ralph Ellison at the American Academy of Rome.” Invited contribution to Ralph Ellison in
Context, edited by Paul Devlin, Cambridge UP. Forthcoming in 2020.
“Snapshots of the Eternal City: Ralph Ellison in Rome.” Modernism/Modernity, 24-4 (Fall
2017): 819-39.
“Conservative and Internationalist: George Schuyler’s Pulp Fiction and The Imperialism of The Oppressed.” In Nerds, Wonks, and Neo-Cons, edited by Jonathan P. Eburne and
Benjamin Schreier, Indiana UP, Spring 2016.
“The Subterranean Performance of History between Harlem and Rome in William Demby’s The Catacombs.” African American Review. 47.2-3 (Fall 2014): 417-29.
“Ralph Ellison’s Exceptional Diaspora: The View From Rome.” Atlantic Studies 9.4 (December 2012): 447-66.
Additional Information
Biography
Sara Marzioli received her Ph.D. in Comparative Literature from the Pennsylvania State University. She has taught Black American and Black European cultures, Italian Studies, Globalization and Migration literatures, and World Literature and Cinema. She is at work on a book manuscript titled, The Color of The Archive: Afro-Modernism Between the Atlantic and The Mediterranean, which brings into conversation Twentieth-Century African American and Italian writers and film directors, whose work addresses the intersection of history, narrative, and coloniality in Europe and the black Atlantic. She has published in African American Review, Atlantic Studies, and Modernism/Modernity.Education
- Ph.D. Comparative Literature, The Pennsylvania State University
(Modernity and the African Diaspora in Italy and the black Atlantic)
- M.A., Comparative Literature, The Pennsylvania State University
(Francophone and African American Cultures)
- B.A., Foreign Languages and Literatures (English and Russian)
Research Areas
- Black European Studies
- Cultures of the Atlantic African Diaspora
- Afterlives of Modernity and Coloniality
- Narrative and History
- World Cinema
- Migration Literature and Citizenship in Europe
Teaching Areas
- Interdisciplinary Studies
- The Black Atlantic and Black Europe
- World Cinema
- Italian Studies
Recent Publications
“Terra! Ma nessuna patria di Ti-Noune Moïse. La cura della democrazia e della storia familiare tra Haiti e Italia.” Interview and introductory essay. Roots-Routes. Research on Visual Cultures. Vol. 42, May-August 2023. <https://www.roots-routes.org/anno-13-n-42-maggio-agosto-2023-cura-care-cure-curate/>.
“Beneatha’s Developing Pan-Africanism and Lorraine Hansberry’s Activism in A Raisin in the Sun.” Invited contribution to A Raisin in the Sun by Lorraine Hansberry. Critical Insights Series, edited by Paul Bailey, Salem Press, 2023. 195-213.
“Cannibalizing the Black Atlantic in F. T. Marinetti’s Interwar Writing.” Interdisciplinary Literary Studies: A Journal of Criticism and Theory. Vol. 23, Issue 4, 2021. 547-572.
“Ralph Ellison at the American Academy of Rome.” Invited contribution to Ralph Ellison in
Context, edited by Paul Devlin, Cambridge UP. Forthcoming in 2020.
“Snapshots of the Eternal City: Ralph Ellison in Rome.” Modernism/Modernity, 24-4 (Fall
2017): 819-39.
“Conservative and Internationalist: George Schuyler’s Pulp Fiction and The Imperialism of The Oppressed.” In Nerds, Wonks, and Neo-Cons, edited by Jonathan P. Eburne and
Benjamin Schreier, Indiana UP, Spring 2016.
“The Subterranean Performance of History between Harlem and Rome in William Demby’s The Catacombs.” African American Review. 47.2-3 (Fall 2014): 417-29.
“Ralph Ellison’s Exceptional Diaspora: The View From Rome.” Atlantic Studies 9.4 (December 2012): 447-66.