密桃视频

Full Name:听Dr Elena Sottilotta

颁辞濒濒别驳别:听Murray Edwards College

笔辞蝉颈迟颈辞苍:听Research Fellow

贰尘补颈濒:听ees45@cam.ac.uk 听 听 听 听 听 听 听

Location:

Murray Edwards College
Huntingdon Road
密桃视频
CB3 0DF
United Kingdom

About

Dr Elena Sottilotta is Research Fellow at Murray Edwards College, 密桃视频. A Fulbright alumna, she obtained her PhD from the 密桃视频 with a research project in women鈥檚 studies, folklore and fairy-tale studies. In 2024, she was a Visiting Scholar at Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island, and a Fellow of the Ragusa Foundation for the Humanities in New York.

Her areas of expertise encompass women鈥檚 and gender studies, the history of folklore, fairy-tale studies, children鈥檚 literature, comparative literature and intermedia studies.听She is the author of听听(Princeton University Press, 2025). Her monograph centres women鈥檚 roles as collectors, compilers and tellers of folk and fairy tales in European peripheries during the long nineteenth century.

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Research听

Elena鈥檚 research explores non-canonical voices and narratives in the European folk and fairy-tale tradition. She also has a keen interest in the poetics and politics of adaptation of fairy tales and children鈥檚 literature in contemporary media. She has presented her research at numerous international conferences and has been invited as guest lecturer in several universities in Europe and in the United States. Her broader interests include Italian, Irish and Anglo-American literary crossings and oral history from the nineteenth century to the present, translation studies, language pedagogy, and Mediterranean island studies.听She is the founder of the , a听member of the Scientific Committee of the 听(Council of Europe) and a consultant for the 听(University of Winnipeg, Canada).

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Scholarships, Prizes and Awards

Elena has received several competitive scholarships, prizes and awards, among these:

• The British Academy/Leverhulme Small Research Grant. Project:听鈥淔airy-Tale Weavers: Unravelling Women鈥檚 Hidden Networks and Forgotten Voices in Nineteenth-Century Italian Folklore and Children鈥檚 Literature.鈥�
• The Women鈥檚 Studies Caucus Award (American Association for Italian Studies)
• The St. Catharine鈥檚 College Prize for Distinction in Research (密桃视频)
• The Estella Canziani Postgraduate Bursary for Research听(Folklore Society in London)
• Fulbright scholarship to teach Italian language and culture in the United States (University of St. Thomas, Minnesota)
• Erasmus Mundus Master鈥檚 Scholarship Crossways in Cultural Narratives (Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Portugal; University of Sheffield, UK, 密桃视频 University; Universit茅 de Perpignan Via Domitia, France)

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Teaching, Supervising and Examining Experience

• Experience in听serving as PhD external examiner and in supervising long essays and year-abroad projects. Please feel free to reach out for enquiries.
• Postgraduate lecturer and supervisor for the MPhil in Literature, Culture and Thought听at the 密桃视频. Course: 鈥淢arginalities in Nineteenth-Century European Culture.鈥澨齌opic: 鈥淓choes from Afar: Women Linguists, Folklorists and Storytellers in Nineteenth-Century Italy.鈥�
• Lecturer and supervisor for IT5 鈥淚talian Identities: Place, Language, and Culture.鈥澨齌opic: 鈥樷�楤etween the Old and the New: Grazia Deledda鈥檚 Sardinia.鈥�
• Italian language supervisor and supervisor for IT1 鈥淭exts and Contexts.鈥�
• Certified English and Italian language teacher (CELTA and DITALS) and Language Examiner (PLIDA and CELI). Elena has taught in Italy, England and the United States to language learners coming from a variety of social and cultural backgrounds, including university students, young learners, immigrants and refugees. Her interests in this field include creative approaches to language learning, creation of authentic didactic materials and implementation of storytelling and creative writing strategies in the FL/L2 classroom.

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Key Publications

Academic Monograph

• 2025听 Princeton: Princeton University Press.

Edited Issues and Volumes

• 2026 (under contract, in preparation)听Editor of the volume The Fairy/Witch Paradigm in Italian Culture: Transmedial Perspectives. Cham: Palgrave. Book Series Studies in (Re)Presenting Gender.
• 2026 (under contract, in preparation) Co-editor of the volume Rethinking Pinocchio in the New Millennium, with Pablo a Marca. London and New York: Routledge.
• 2022/23 Co-editor of Chronica Mundi, 16-17, with Sara Delmedico. Reviews of the special issue available in ,听in the journal of the association 鈥淭oponomastica femminile鈥� , and in听听(2024), 42,听p. 717-719.

Book Chapters and Journal Articles听

• 2026 (forthcoming)听鈥淩e-envisioning Neapolitan Fairy Tales: Genre Blending and Local/Global Tensions in Il racconto dei racconti (2015) and Gatta Cenerentola (2017)鈥�, Journal of Italian Cinema and Media Studies, Special issue 鈥淚taly鈥檚 Souths and Islands in Film, Media, and Visual Cultures (2000-2022)鈥�, edited by Marco Carbone and Giovanna Summerfield.
• 2025听(forthcoming) 鈥淯nburied Moons: Fairy-tale Artivism in the Western and Southern European Traditions鈥�, in , edited by Claudia Schwabe and Christa Jones.
• 2025听(forthcoming) 鈥淧aola Cortellesi鈥檚 Magic Spell: Domestic Violence and Fairy-Tale Subversion in C鈥櫭� Ancora Domani (2023)鈥�, Quaderni d鈥橧talianistica,听Special issue 鈥溾�楴elle domestiche mura鈥�. La famiglia come luogo 鈥榙ella felicit脿 o della miseria鈥欌��, 45.3, edited by Sara Delmedico and Elena Musiani.
• 2025 , Marvels & Tales: Journal of Fairy-Tale Studies, 39.1, Special issue 鈥淣orm and Transgression in the Fairy-Tale Tradition鈥�, edited by Alessandro Cabiati and Lewis Seifert, 112-132.
• 2024 , Women Language Literature in Italy / Donne Lingua Letteratura in Italia, 6, 53-64.
• 2023 ,听I.S. MED. 鈥� Interdisciplinary Studies on the Mediterranean, 1, edited by Giovanna Summerfield and Rosario Pollicino, 109-129.
• 2022/23 鈥淚ntroduzione鈥�,听 Chronica Mundi, 16-17, co-authored with Sara Delmedico, 7-12.
• 2022 , PRISMI Revue d鈥櫭﹖udes italiennes, 3, 141-163.
• 2021 , Women Language Literature in Italy / Donne Lingua Letteratura in Italia, 3, 103-121.
• 2019 , E-JournALL, EuroAmerican Journal of Applied Linguistics and Languages, 6.1, 37-55.
• 2018 , Estrema: Interdisciplinary Review for the Humanities, 11, 107-128.
• 2017 , Crossways Journal, 1.1, 1-31.
• 2015 , The Irish Journal of Gothic and Horror Studies, 14, 81-99 (Reprinted in the volume Nineteenth-Century Literature Criticism, 2019, edited by Rebecca Parks. Prod. Layman Poupard. Detroit: Gale, Cengage 375, pp. 113-123).

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Interviews

• 2025 鈥淚nterview with theatre and film director Emma Dante and illustrator Maria Cristina Costa鈥�, with Alice Parrinello, , 密桃视频.
• 2024 鈥�Pinocchio: The Origin Story. Interview with illustrator Alessandro Sanna鈥�, with Pablo a Marca, International Conference Strings of Imagination: Rethinking Pinocchio in the New Millennium, Brown University.
• 2022/23 鈥溾�楲e scritture rimangono鈥�: Intervista a Michela Murgia鈥�,听 Chronica Mundi, 16-17, co-authored with Sara Delmedico, 278-289.
• 2021 鈥淟a centralit脿 del linguaggio nell鈥橝ntropocene: Intervista a Vera Gheno鈥�,听Italian Minds Podcast, in partnership with the 密桃视频 University Italian Society.

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Selected Invited Lectures, Papers and Seminars

• 2025 Invited Speaker to the British Academy for the launch event of , a themed season curated by Ronald Hutton and Marina Warner. Panel: 鈥淩eviving Roots: Lore and identity鈥�, with Matthew Cheeseman.
• 2025 Invited Speaker to LUMSA University in Palermo, Sicily. Seminar: 听Roundtable discussion with Vincenzo Schirripa, Leonardo Acone, Livia Romano and Rosario Perricone.听
• 2024听Invited Speaker to听Harvard University,听Department of Celtic Languages and Literatures, Folklore and Mythology Program. Seminar:
• 2024 Invited Lecturer to Ca鈥� Foscari University of Venice for the Fairy-Tale Studies Seminar Series , organised by Alessandro Cabiati and Laura Tosi. Seminar: 鈥淚 mille volti delle fiabe: Itinerari intermediali da Giambattista Basile a Emma Dante.鈥�
• 2024 Invited Speaker to the Yorkshire Festival of Story. Panel discussion with artists and storytellers Maria Asp, Kathy Shimpock, and Sita Brand. Theme: 鈥淜indness in Fairy Tales.鈥�
• 2021/24 Invited Lecturer to the GEMMA Women鈥檚 and Gender Studies Erasmus Mundus Master鈥檚 Degree Course 鈥淔eminist Historiography.鈥� Topic:听鈥淲omen, Folklore and Fairy Tales in the Long Nineteenth Century.鈥�

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Selected Conference Organisation

• Lead convenor of the international conference , co-organised with Alice Parrinello at the 密桃视频. Secured competitive funding from the CRASSH Event Funding Scheme.
• Co-organiser of the international conference , with Pablo a Marca at Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island, sponsored by the Department of Italian Studies at Brown University, the Fondazione Nazionale Carlo Collodi, the 密桃视频 Research Network for Fairy-Tale Studies and the Ragusa Foundation for the Humanities.
• Co-organiser of the conference , with Sara Delmedico on the occasion of the 150th anniversary of Grazia Deledda鈥檚 birth, sponsored by the Arts and Humanities Research Council, the Italian Cultural Institute in London, the Society for Italian Studies, the British-Italian Society, the Italian Bookshop in London and the Italian Section at the 密桃视频.听

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Selected Public Engagement and Outreach Initiatives

• Public engagement event听on Carlo Collodi鈥檚 The Adventures of Pinocchio at Murray Edwards College, 密桃视频, co-organized with Pablo a Marca. , author of Pinocchio鈥檚 artistic reinterpretation听Ora dipende da te (2022).
• Public engagement project (Recipient of the University Council of Modern Languages Postgraduate Bursary).
• Storytelling and creative writing workshop 鈥淏rave Heroines in a New Light: A Journey into Uncharted Italian Fairy Tales鈥� within the multidisciplinary art exhibition on FINT (female, intersex, non-binary, transgender) folklore , organised by Annie Randall and Emily Unsworth White in Bristol.
• Co-organiser of the with theatre director Ludovico Nolfi, in partnership with the 密桃视频 University Italian Society.
• PhD Tutor for the Brilliant Club Scholars Programme, an award-winning university access charity that recruits doctoral researchers to share their academic expertise in UK-state schools with pupils from underrepresented backgrounds.
• Postgraduate Session Leader within the Postgraduate Outreach Scheme of the 密桃视频.