Sally Hill

Sarah Patricia Hill is a New Zealand academic, and is a full professor at the Victoria University of Wellington, specialising in Italian cultural studies. Hill researches Italian culture, especially the role of photography in culture, and violence and disability in Italian cinema.

Academic career
Hill is a New Zealander, and completed both a Bachelor of Arts and a Master of Arts at the University of Auckland. Hill went overseas for further postgraduate training, completing a PhD titled Photographic fictions: photography in Italian literature 1945-2000 at the University of Chicago in 2004. Hill then returned to New Zealand, joining the faculty of Victoria University of Wellington that same year. Hill was promoted to full professor in 2022. As of 2024, Hill is an Associate Dean in Victoria's Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, and Director of the Bachelor of Global Studies.

Hill studies Italian culture, covering topics such as the role of photography in culture, and violence and disability in Italian film. She has also examined Italian migrants to New Zealand, and migrant writing, and has become interested in the ways that Italian communities "respond to the material history of fascism". She has also translated into English work by Italian literary critic Sergio Zatti. In 2014 Hill edited a book with Giuliana Minghelli on Italian photographic modernity.

In 2014, Hill was awarded a Teaching Excellence Award, and was nominated for a national teaching award. At that time she was Head of the School of Languages and Cultures.

Books

 * Zatti, Sergio. The Quest for Epic: From Ariosto to Tasso. Edited by Dennis Looney and translated by Sally Hill.(2006). Toronto: University of Toronto Press. Pp. vii+315.
 * Zatti, Sergio. The Quest for Epic: From Ariosto to Tasso. Edited by Dennis Looney and translated by Sally Hill.(2006). Toronto: University of Toronto Press. Pp. vii+315.