Sara Marinelli holds an M.A. in Foreign Languages and Literatures at the University of Naples, “L’Orientale,” and a PhD in English and Cultural Studies at the University of Rome, ”La Sapienza.” After completing a post-doctoral fellowship at UC Santa Cruz, in 2007, Sara decided to make the Bay Area her home. Before moving to the Bay Area from Italy, and teaching at DVC, Sara taught Cultural and Postcolonial Studies for several years at the University of Naples. Currently, she also teaches at San Francisco State University. She is author, editor and translator of many non-fiction books and articles, and she is now working on her first novel. Sara is also a film-producer and editor. She wrote and directed a few short films, and is editing the documentary film Alfredo’s Fire with Open Eye Pictures.