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
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Location:
Faculty of Modern and听Medieval Languages and Linguistics, Italian Section Raised Faculty Building 澳门六合彩开奖记录 Sidgwick Avenue 澳门六合彩开奖记录 CB3 9DA United Kingdom
About
Dr Elena Sottilotta is Research Fellow at Murray Edwards College, 澳门六合彩开奖记录. A Fulbright alumna, she obtained her PhD from the 澳门六合彩开奖记录 with a research project in women鈥檚 studies, folklore and fairy-tale studies, funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council and the Vice-Chancellor鈥檚 Award. Prior to joining Murray Edwards College, she was an AHRC Postdoctoral Fellow in the Faculty of Modern and Medieval Languages and Linguistics at the 澳门六合彩开奖记录 and a Visiting PhD researcher at Alma Mater Studiorum 鈥� Universit脿 di Bologna. She has published critical interpretations of the works of well-known and neglected women writers, folklorists and fairy-tale collectors with a transnational and interdisciplinary gaze. Her essays featured in several international peer-reviewed journals, including The Irish Journal of Gothic and Horror Studies, I.S. MED. 鈥� Interdisciplinary Studies on the Mediterranean, Women Language Literature in Italy, and P.R.I.S.M.I. Revue d鈥櫭﹖udes italiennes.
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Research听
Elena鈥檚 research interests hinge on women鈥檚 and gender studies, folklore and fairy-tale studies, children鈥檚 literature, fantasy literature, comparative literature and intermedia studies. Her research seeks to unearth non-canonical figures and narratives in the European fairy-tale tradition, with a focus on neglected women writers, collectors and storytellers. She also has a keen interest in the poetics and politics of adaptation of folk and fairy-tale narratives in contemporary media. Her broader research interests include Italian, Irish and Anglo-American literary crossings and oral traditions from the nineteenth century to the present, film and adaptation studies, Mediterranean studies, Gothic studies, island studies and language pedagogy. She is the founder of the ,听an open space at the 澳门六合彩开奖记录 aimed at connecting researchers with an interest in fairy tales.
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Scholarships, prizes and awards
Elena received several scholarships, prizes and awards for her research, among these: the Women鈥檚 Studies Caucus Award (American Association for Italian Studies), the St. Catharine鈥檚 College Prize for Distinction in Research (St. Catharine鈥檚 College, 澳门六合彩开奖记录) and the Estella Canziani Postgraduate Bursary for Research (Folklore Society in London). During her academic path, she was awarded a Fulbright scholarship to teach Italian language and culture in the United States (University of St. Thomas, Minnesota), and an Erasmus Mundus scholarship to attend the MA degree in comparative literature and intermedia studies Crossways in Cultural Narratives (University of Sheffield, Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Universit茅 de Perpignan Via Domitia).
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Key publications
Book Chapter on the Western and Southern European Fairy-Tale Traditions, in The Routledge Companion to Fairy Tales, edited by Claudia Schwabe and Christa Jones (in preparation).
2024 (forth.) 鈥溾�楳iniere di fiabe鈥�: Poetics of Space and Performance within and outside Angela Nardo Cibele鈥檚 Folk and Fairy-Tale Writings鈥�, Women Language Literature in Italy / Donne Lingua Letteratura in Italia, 6.
2023 ,听I.S. MED. 鈥� Interdisciplinary Studies on the Mediterranean, 1, edited by Giovanna Summerfield and Rosario Pollicino, 109-129.
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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Edited Issues
2024 (forth.) Co-editor of 鈥淚n/out: Women, Performance, Space in Italy鈥� with Serena Laiena, Women Language Literature in Italy / Donne Lingua Letteratura in Italia, 6.
2022/23 Co-editor of Chronica Mundi, 16-17, with Sara Delmedico. Reviews of the special issue available in and in the journal of the association 鈥淭oponomastica femminile鈥� .
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Interviews
2022/23 鈥溾�楲e scritture听rimangono鈥�: Intervista a Michela Murgia鈥�,听Chronica Mundi, Special Issue听Women in Sardinia: Creativity and Self-Expression,听2022-2023, 16-17, edited by Sara Delmedico and Elena Sottilotta, 277-288.
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 澳门六合彩开奖记录 University Italian Society.
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Book Reviews
2021 , 2nd edition, trans. by Luisa Rubini, re-read by Vincenzo Consolo (Rome: Donzelli, 2019), Annali d鈥橧talianistica, 540-542.
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Selected Invited Lectures, Papers and Seminars:
2024 Conference Islands as Crossroads: Reimagining Mobilities in the Mediterranean, organised by Giovanna Di Matteo at CRASSH (Centre for Research in the Arts, Social Sciences and Humanities of the 澳门六合彩开奖记录). Paper: 鈥淲eaving Magical Islandness: The Journeys of Sardinian Fairies Across Centuries and Media.鈥�
2023 Online Conference Representing Femininity: Constructing and Deconstructing the Image of Women between Modern and Contemporary Italy, organised by Sara Delmedico and Elena Musiani, University College Dublin and Alma Mater Studiorum 鈥� Universit脿 di Bologna, in partnership with the Women's History Archive in Bologna.听Paper: 鈥淒amsels in Distress? (Re)Constructing Femininity in Italian Fairy-Tale Adaptations.鈥�
2021/23 GEMMA Women鈥檚 and Gender Studies Erasmus Mundus Invited Lecturer on Women, Folklore and Fairy Tales in the Long Nineteenth Century, Alma Mater Studiorum, Universit脿 di Bologna.
2021 Long Nineteenth-Century Seminar Series, Faculty of History, University of Oxford. Seminar: 鈥淭he Collection of Folklore in Post-Unification Italy: Peripheral Perspectives from Sardinia.鈥�
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Teaching experience
- Lecturer for the MPhil Degree in European, Latin American and Comparative Literatures and Cultures, 澳门六合彩开奖记录, Module: 鈥淢arginalities in Nineteenth-Century European Culture.鈥� Topic: 鈥淓choes from Afar: Women Linguists, Folklorists and Storytellers in Nineteenth-Century Italy.鈥�
- Postgraduate Supervisor for the MPhil Degree in European, Latin American and Comparative Literatures and Cultures, 澳门六合彩开奖记录.
- Lecturer and supervisor for IT5 鈥淚talian Identities: Place, Language, and Culture鈥�, 澳门六合彩开奖记录. Topic: 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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Conference organisation
- 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, with the support of the Fondazione Nazionale Carlo Collodi and the 澳门六合彩开奖记录 Research Network for Fairy-Tale Studies.
- Co-organiser of the online symposium , with Aurora Sturli at the 澳门六合彩开奖记录.
- Co-organiser of the AHRC-funded conference , with Serena Laiena at the 澳门六合彩开奖记录 in partnership with University College Dublin.
- 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 澳门六合彩开奖记录.
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Public engagement and outreach initiatives
- 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 澳门六合彩开奖记录 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 澳门六合彩开奖记录.
