Sonita Sarker is Professor Chair of Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies and English Macalester College, St. Paul, Minnesota.
Prof. Sarker has published this year on Grazia Deledda–one is a chapter titled “Grazia Deledda: From Island to Continent and Never Back Again” in her book Women Writing Race, Nation, and History: N/native from Oxford University Press. The other is a chapter in a volume, Indigenous Modernisms, from Routledge, in which she juxtaposes Grazia Deledda and Zitkála-Šá (a Native American activist and writer). She has presented on Deledda at the American Association for Italian Studies in Ohio and in Zurich. She has also published two essays on Antonio Gramsci, one on Time and History that includes Michel Foucault, and another on Gramscian theory and transnational feminisms. She has been a regular attendee at the Gramsci conference in Ghilarza and Rome. She was the first Luisa Selis fellow at the University of London in collaboration with the Italian Cultural Center in London (2017, the 80th anniversary of Gramsci’s death)—she juxtaposed Deledda and Gramsci’s Sardinian presence in literature and politics, respectively. She delivered a lecture on the same subject, here at the Casa Italiana at NYU.. She is interested in Sardinian identity in relation to Italy, and in women’s literary contributions, indigeneity, and colonialisms.
