Department of French and Italian

Cosetta Seno Reed

Assistant Professor

Bio | Publications | Research Interests | Curriculum Vitae

Bio

Cosetta Seno Reed received her Ph.D. in Italian Studies from the University of California at Berkeley. Before coming to CU, she was a Visiting Professor at Georgetown University and at The Catholic University of America. She specializes in the Italian fantastic literary tradition and in Contemporary Italian Literature and Culture, with particular emphasis on Women's Literature and Italian Feminist Criticism. She has published  in Italy and in the US and she is currently working on a book on Anna Maria Ortese, in which she investigates Ortese’s revision and re-interpretation of recent Italian history through the “tool” of fantasy.

Publications:

Books:

• Realism versus Utopianism. The Moral Perspective of Anna Maria Ortese (in progress)

Chapters:

• Contributing Author to “L’italiano negli USA” in L’italiano nel mondo, Ed.Luca Serianni, Torino: UTET (Forthcoming 2008)

Articles:

• “Metastasio: giuramenti senza vendetta” Esperienze Letterarie 1, (2007)
• “Partire da sé per non farsi trovare. Il porto di Toledo: Storia di un’autobiografia fantastica.” MLN  122, 1 (2007)
• “Promessi Sposi XV. Il nodo di Salomone” in  Rassegna europea della letteratura italiana 23 (2004)
• “Anna Maria Ortese. Il mare non bagna Napoli. Due diversi tipi di estraniamento” in Rassegna europea della letteratura italiana 20 (2002)
• Intervista a Paolo Cherchi on Herostraticon: Medaglioni di Astripeti  in Il lettore di provincia 107 (2001)

Research Interests:

• Italian Fantastic Literary Tradition
• Contemporary Italian Literature and Culture
• Women’s Studies
• Italian Feminism
• Italian as a Second Language