Suzanne Magnanini
Assistant Professor of Italian and Comparative
Literature
Bio | Publications | Research
Interests | Curriculum Vitae
Bio
 Professor Magnanini received her B.A. from the Washington University
in Saint Louis before obtaining her M.A. and Ph.D. in Italian from the
University of Chicago. She specializes in fairy tales, woman writers, and in the construction of monstrous
bodies. Since coming to CU, Suzanne has been involved in revamping and
devising new courses for the curriculum. She is currently researching literary representations of magic in early modern Italy.
Publications:
Books:
- Science Fictions: Monstrous Generation in the Fairy Tales of
Gianfrancesco Straparola and Giambattista Basile, University of Toronto, 2008.
- Gianfrancesco Straparola's The Pleasant Nights. Trans. and Ed.
Suzanne Magnanini (in progress for The Other
Voice Series).
Articles:
- "Telling Tales Out of School: The Literary Fairy Tale in Italian Academics." Romanic Review 99.2 (2008):257-70.
- "Postulated Routes from Naples to Paris: Antonio Bulifron and the Italian Literary Fairy Tale in France." Marvels and Tales 21.1 (2007):78-92.
- "Foils and Fakes: Manufactured Monsters in Giambattista Basile's "Lo
Mercante." Marvels and Tales, 19.2 (2005):167-96
- "Una selva luminosa: The Second Day of Moderata Fonte's Il
merito
delle donne," Modern Philology, (101:2), November 2003.
- "Animal Anxieties: Straparola's Il re porco." The Italian Novella,
Ed. Gloria Allaire, New York: Routledge,
2003.
- "Girolamo Parabosco's "L'Hermafrodito: An Irregular Commedia Regolare," Monsters in the Italian Literary Imagination, Ed. Keala Jewell,
Detroit: Wayne State Press, 2001, pp. 203-221.
Research Interests:
- Renaissance fairy tales
- Science and Literature
- Magic
- Early modern women writers
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