Italian Studies

Sara Colantuono (Ph.D., 2024) is an Italian Studies scholar and a translator. Her dissertation, The Catholic Matrix of Italian Feminism: from Carla Lonzi to Michela Murgia, is an intellectual history of postwar Italian feminism that focuses on the unrecognized cultural  manifestations of a historically and geographically specific form of religious imaginary in the work of several Italian feminist theorists. Her new translation of Leopoldina Fortunati's 1981 book L’Arcano della riproduzione. Casalinghe, prostitute, operai e capitale is forthcoming with Verso. Her translations and scholarly work are forthcoming in a special issue of the Canadian journal Fillip dedicated to Fortunati and Lonzi, and in the collection of essays Italian Feminist Thought: Today and Tomorrow.