Sally Hill

Sally (Sarah Patricia) Hill is Director of Global Studies. She studied in New Zealand, Italy and North America, and holds a PhD from the University of Chicago. Her research focuses on transdisciplinary understandings of visual and narrative representations of marginalised identities and on historical memory in visual and material culture. Her current work investigates how communities, activists and artists in Italy are offering new ways to respond to the material heritage of fascism, relating local interventions to global and transnational phenomena. She also works on screen and photographic representations of disability and mental disorder, particularly in Italy, and on representations of violence against women. She has also worked on migrants and migrant writing, on practices of travel writing and photography, and on the history and theory of interactions between the visual arts and creative writing. She has translated works across a wide range of fields from ethnography to feminist theory. In addition, she has worked with the Critical Diagnosis Network and with the New Zealand Centre for Literary Translation. She has supervised PhD theses on topics including representations of mental illness and disability, postcolonial translation and film adaptation, translation studies and intercultural communication, genre studies, women writers, and ecocriticism. With Associate Professor Giacomo Lichtner (History), she is co-lead of a 2-year international ACIS-funded History and Social Science Research Project entitled "Reframing, Revisiting or Removing: Making Fascism Visible in Contemporary Italy".