Sara Marzagora

Dr Sara Marzagora is a Senior Lecturer in Comparative Literature at King’s College London’s Languages, Literatures and Cultures department within the Faculty of Arts & Humanities. She joined King’s in 2020 after completing a PhD in Cultural, Literary and Postcolonial Studies at SOAS (2016) and a Senior Research Fellowship at the University of Oxford (2014–2016). Her research focuses on Ethiopian intellectual history, global intellectual frameworks, and anti-colonial methodologies. She has held visiting positions at Northwestern University, Addis Ababa University, and others.

Her work interrogates Ethiopian political thought, Amharic literature, and multilingualism in the Global South. Key projects include co-editing National Multilingualism in the Horn of Africa and South Asia (2024) and her monograph The True Meaning of Independence: Ethiopian Intellectuals in a Colonial World (1901–1919). Her research appears in journals like Journal of African History and Global Intellectual History.

Marzagora co-leads King’s research groups including Critical Economic and Political Thought and Empires and Decolonizations Hub. She developed inclusive pedagogical toolkits integrating anti-colonial archives and teaches courses on world literature, pre-1900 African texts, and comparative political thought.

Her awards include a 2021 Fellowship of the Higher Education Academy and contributions to projects like the British Academy’s Fontes Historiae Africanae. She is currently a member of the Postcolonial Print Cultures International Research Network.