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Sara Kippur is Professor and Chair of the Department of French, Francophone, and Italian Studies at Wellesley College. Her scholarship bridges translation theory, book history, and media studies to examine 20th- and 21st-century French and Francophone literature. She has held prestigious fellowships at the Suzy Newhouse Center (2020-2021) and the Camargo Foundation (Spring 2024), and serves on the Modern Language Association's PMLA editorial board (2022-2024) and executive committees.
- Education:
- B.A., Princeton University
- M.A., Harvard University
- Ph.D., Harvard University
Research Interests: Sara explores how self-translation reshapes national literary boundaries, the transatlantic influences on postwar French literature, and the cultural history of wartime artists' colonies in France. Her pedagogy emphasizes students' role as cultural translators through close textual analysis.
- Awards:
- Newhouse Faculty Fellow
- Camargo Foundation Fellow (2024)
- Suzy Newhouse Center Fellow (2020-2021)
Current Projects: Her forthcoming book, New York Nouveau (Stanford University Press, 2025), redefines French literary history through U.S.-based editorial interventions. She is also developing a cultural history of an artists’ community in Oppède, France, using transatlantic archival research.
