{{Short description|American writer, ecologist, and administrator}} {{Infobox officeholder | name = Sylvia Torti | office = 7th President of the College of the Atlantic | term_start = July 1, 2024 | term_end = | predecessor = Darron Collins | successor = | birth_place = Ohio, U.S. | education = Earlham College (BA) <br>University of Utah (PhD) }}
'''Sylvia D. Torti''' is an American writer, ecologist, and academic administrator who is the president of the College of the Atlantic. She was dean of the honors college at the University of Utah from 2012 to 2023.
On April 15th, 2026, she was named the future president of Westminster University.
== Life == Torti was born and raised in Ohio.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Sylvia D. Torti – Story in Literary Fiction |url=https://www.storyinliteraryfiction.com/interviews/whats-new/sylvia-d-torti/ |access-date=2024-04-12 |website=www.storyinliteraryfiction.com}}</ref> Her father is Argentine and she speaks English, Spanish, and Danish.<ref>{{Cite web |date=2019-11-05 |title=Dean Sylvia Torti: Resident Renaissance Woman - Honors College |url=https://www.honors.utah.edu/2019/11/05/dean-sylvia-torti-resident-renaissance-woman/ |access-date=2024-04-12 |website=www.honors.utah.edu |language=en-US}}</ref> She earned a B.A. from Earlham College in 1992.<ref name=":0">{{Cite web |last=Torti |first=Sylvia |title=CV |url=https://faculty.utah.edu/bytes/curriculumVitae.hml?id=u0029263 |website=University of Utah}}</ref> Torti completed a Ph.D. in biology at the University of Utah in 1998,<ref name=":0" /> which focused on monodominance of tropical trees in Panama, Trinidad, and the Democratic Republic of the Congo.<ref>{{Cite web |title=SYLVIA TORTI - Sylvia Torti |url=https://sylviatorti.com/SYLVIA-TORTI |access-date=2025-03-02 |website=sylviatorti.com |language=en}}</ref>
After graduation, Torti was the University of Utah's [https://bonderman-station.utah.edu/ Bonderman Field Station] director before she became the Honors College Dean.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Trotter |first=Bill |date=2024-04-09 |title=Bar Harbor's College of the Atlantic names new president |url=https://www.bangordailynews.com/2024/04/09/hancock/bar-harbor-college-of-the-atlantic-new-president-sylvia-torti-n6hjn1me0n/ |access-date=2025-03-02 |website=Bangor Daily News |language=en-US}}</ref>
From 2011 to 2018, Torti was the Associate Director of the interdisciplinary collective Mapping Meaning.<ref>{{Cite web |title=SYLVIA TORTI - Sylvia Torti |url=https://sylviatorti.com/SYLVIA-TORTI |access-date=2026-03-16 |website=sylviatorti.com |language=en}}</ref>
Torti was dean of the University of Utah Honors College from 2012 to 2023.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Presidential Announcement |url=https://www.coa.edu/about/administration/presidential-announcement/ |access-date=2024-04-12 |website=www.coa.edu |language=en}}</ref> In April 2024, Torti was named the incoming president of the College of the Atlantic. She succeed Darron Collins as the seventh president on July 1.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Dr. Sylvia Torti named seventh president of COA |url=https://www.coa.edu/live/news/2026-dr-sylvia-torti-named-seventh-president-of-coa |access-date=2024-04-12 |website=www.coa.edu |language=en}}</ref>
Torti has published various works throughout her career as a writer, including her 2017 novel, ''Cages.'' <ref>{{Cite web |title=COA names new president - Island Institute |url=https://www.islandinstitute.org/working-waterfront/coa-names-new-president/ |access-date=2025-03-01 |website=www.islandinstitute.org |language=en-US}}</ref>
== Books == Slyvia Torti has published numerous books as a writer. ''The Scorpions Tail'' written in 2005 won the Miguel Mármol Prize, which is awarded to a Latinx writer with the best fictional debut in writing. <ref>{{Cite web |title=The Scorpions Tail |url=https://nupress.northwestern.edu/9781931896177/the-scorpions-tail/ |access-date=2025-09-21 |website=Northwestern University Press |language=en-US}}</ref> ''Cages'' written in 2017 won the Nicholas Schaffner Award for Music in Literature.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Sylvia Torti |url=http://www.mappingmeaning.org/2012-2/2012-participants/sylvia-torti |access-date=2026-03-16 |website=Mapping Meaning |language=en-US}}</ref>
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