My research has focused on the early modern Italian fairy tale and its relationship to the discourses of monstrosity, science, and gender. Currently, I am working on two projects. The first, examines the ways in which Post-Tridentine censorship shaped the Italian fairy tale tradition. The second, a edited volume, explores representations of enslavement in early modern Italian culture. I am also active as a translator and editor of early modern Italian texts, most recently working on Italian popular texts in verse, published between 1480 and 1650. I continue to present and publish on issues of pedagogy related to my research. Finally, I direct a digital project Fairy Tales at CU with Librarian Sean Babbs, which isa digital annotated bibliography of Norlin Library's exceptional fairy tale collection created in collaboration with CU undergraduates and graduate students.
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Italian fairy tales, early modern Italian women writers, monstrosity, gender in the Renaissance, literature and the law, translation and editing of early modern Italian texts, pedagogy,digital humanities
