Cosetta Seno Reed
Assistant Professor
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Bio
 Cosetta Seno Reed received her laurea in English and Russian Literature from the University of Macerata (Italy). After living in England and Russia, where she worked for a non-profit organization, she moved to the United States where she received an M.A. in Italian Literature from the University of Virginia and a Ph.D in Italian Studies from the University of California at Berkeley. Before coming to CU, she was a Visiting Assistant Professor at Georgetown University and at the Catholic University of America. She specializes in the Italian Fantastic Literary Tradition and in the 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.
Scholarly Interests:
- Italian Fantastic Literary Tradition
- Contemporary Italian Literature and Culture
- 19th and 20th Century Italian Poetry
- Italian Feminism
- Women's Studies
- Italian as a Second Language
Publications:
Books:
- Realism versus Utopianism. The Moral Perspective of Anna Maria Ortese (in progress)
Chapters:
- "L'italiano negli USA" in L'italiano nel mondo, co-author with Prof. Paolo Cherchi. (Forthcoming)
Articles:
- "Anna Maria Ortese and the Fantastic Reflections on Gender and Genre" in Italian Women and the Fantastic, Italo Felice Beneduce and Norma Bouchard (Eds.) (Forthcoming)
- "Anna Maria Ortese's Alonso and the Visionaries: A Reflection on Bourgeois Culture and 'gli anni di piombo' (The Years of Terrorism) in Italy" and the Bourgeoisie: The Re-thinking of a Class, Stefania Lucamente (Ed.), MAdison, NJ: Farleigh Dickinson University Press (2009)
- Lettura de Il bove di Carducci, Italica, 85, 1 (2008)
- "Partire da se per non farsi trovare. Il porto di Toledo: Storia di un "autobiografia fantastica." MLN, 122, 1 (2007)
- “Metastasio: giuramenti senza vendetta” Esperienze Letterarie 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)
- Essay Interview with Professor-author Paolo Cherchi on his book: Herostraticon: Medaglioni di Astripeti (winner of the Dessi Literary prize. Premio Speciale della giuria) in Il lettore di provincia 107 (2001)
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