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Biography
Cosetta Seno received her Laurea in Italy before obtaining her M.A. from the University of Virginia and her Ph.D. in Italian Studies from the University of California, Berkeley. Before coming to Colorado she taught at Georgetown University and at the Catholic University of America.
She is Associate Professor of Italian and she specializes in 19th and 20th Century Literature and Culture. She is the former elected president of the AAIS (American Association of Italian Studies) Women鈥檚 Studies Caucus and she continues to work in the field of Women鈥檚 Studies through her research on women writers and gender theories. In Spring 2019 she received the Departmental Teaching Award.
She is the author of two books. The first one, co-written with Professor Paolo Cherchi, is titled Gli italiani e l'italiano nel nord America (2010). Her second book, titled Anna Maria Ortese Un avventuroso realismo. (2013), investigates Ortese鈥檚 revision and re-interpretation of recent Italian history through the tool of fantasy.
She is currently working on her new book length project, tentatively titled听Mediterranean Spaces and Places within Narrative Reportage, in which she wants to analyze the evolution of the narrative genre of reportage with particular reference to the representation of the city of Naples. She is currently working also as guest-editor for a special issue of Italian literary journal Il lettore di provincia devoted to the education of young women in post-unification Italy.
Publications
Books
- Gli italiani e l鈥檌taliano nell鈥檃merica del nord, co-author with Prof. Paolo Cherchi. Ravenna: Longo, 2010.
- Anna Maria Ortese. Un avventuroso realismo. Ravenna: Longo, 2013
Articles
- 鈥淎nna Maria Ortese e il femminismo.鈥� Proceeding from the international conference on Anna Maria Ortese, held in Rome in 2018. (Forthcoming, April 2020)
- Introduction to Special Issue of Il lettore di provincia devoted to the education of young women in post-unification Italy (Forthcoming, December 2019).
- 鈥淯n viaggio straordinario. Capuana e la narrativa giovanile post-unitaria.鈥� (Forthcoming in Italian Studies in Southern Africa (ISSA), November 2019).
- Interview with Paolo Cherchi on his recent book Maestri. Racconti e memorie di un apprendistato. (On-Line Publication, Griselda On Line, June 2019)
- 鈥淔emminismi a confronto grazie agli Women鈥檚 Studies,鈥� Leggendaria April 2019, N. 133, pp. 38-39. 听
- Alonso e i visionari, by Anna Maria Ortese for The Literary Encyclopedia (On-line publication, December 2018).
- 尝鈥檌驳耻补苍补 by Anna Maria Ortese for The Literary Encyclopedia (On-Line publication, December 2018).
- 鈥淎nna Maria Ortese and the Theory of Sexual Difference鈥� (Altre Lettere, On-line publication, December 2017).
- "Rio Bo di Aldo Palazzeschi e听I cipressi di Vincent Van Gogh,"听Studi Italiani, XXVI.1 (2014): 87-105.
- "Who Did It? The Mysterious Murder of the History of Italian Literature",听Italica, 91.2 (2014): 255-276.
- "Il dibattito sul femminismo nell'Italia post-risorgimentale. Neera e la voce 'emancipazione'听Dizionario di igiene听per famiglie听a cura di Neere e Paolo Mantegazza (1881)",听Il lettore di听provincia听137 (2012): 25-32.
- 鈥淎nna Maria Ortese听e il fantastico. Una prospettiva femminile鈥澨�Rassegna europea della letteratura italiana听(36, 2, 2010, pp.129-140)
- Saggio e conversazione con Paolo Alvino鈥� (Winner of the Literary Prize 鈥淔ili di parole鈥� 2009),听Il lettore di provincia听134 (2010): 99-111.
- 鈥淎lba De C茅spedes. Il diario come spazio utopico鈥澨鼸sperienze Letterarie听2, (2010): 57-68.
- 鈥淎nna Maria Ortese鈥檚听Alonso and the Visionaries: A Reflection on Bourgeois Culture and 鈥榞li anni di piombo鈥� (the Years of Terrorism) in Italy鈥� in听Italy and the Bourgeoisie: The Re-Thinking of a Class, Stefania Lucamante (Ed.), Madison, NJ: Farleigh Dickinson University Press (2009):听 124-141.
- Lettura de听Il bove听di Carducci,听Italica, 85, 1 (2008): 76-87.
- 鈥淧artire da s茅 per non farsi trovare.听Il porto di Toledo:听Storia di un鈥檃utobiografia fantastica.鈥澨� 听MLN, 122, 1 (2007): 148-166.
- 鈥淢etastasio: giuramenti senza vendetta,鈥澨�Esperienze Letterarie听1 (2007): 69-84.
Interests
- 20th & 21st Century Italian Literatre and Culture
- 19th Century Italian Literature and Culture
- Italian History of the Resurgence
- Italian Criminal History
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