Sarah Atkinson

Sarah Atkinson works on intersections of film, literature, and painting in modern and contemporary Italian culture with an emphasis on linguistic diversity, women artists, translation, and adaptation. Her book project, Preserving Difference: The Literary Roots of Pasolini’s Poetic Cinema, investigates social class and ways of seeing in Pier Paolo Pasolini’s early poetry, dialect novels, filmmaking, and film theory. As an affiliate in the Cuban Research Institute at Florida International University, she is also studying Pasolini’s contemporary Caribbean reception. Atkinson has taught Italian literature, film, and language at Villanova University, Yale University, SUNY Stony Brook, and the University of Chicago. As an active translator in Italian, Spanish, and English, she incorporates creative workshops in her courses at all levels. At Hamilton, Atkinson is eager to explore feminist ethics of translation and adaptation in the context of Italian cities such as Rome, Venice, and Naples.

Appointed to the Faculty

Educational Background

Ph.D., Yale University
M.Phil., Yale University
M.A., Yale University
M.A., University of Chicago
B.A., Washington University in St. Louis