Associate Professor of French and Italian
337 Dartmouth Hall
(603) 646-2338
Nancy.Canepa@Dartmouth.EDU
Education:
Yale University, Ph.D.
Cornell University, B.A.
Research and Teaching Interests:
Early Modern Italian Literature and Culture (primarily Baroque)
Fairy Tale Studies
Folklore and Popular Culture
Dialect Literature
Translation and Translation Studies
Selected Publications:
Out of the Woods: The Origins of the Literary Fairy Tale in Italy and France
(Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 1997)
From Court to Forest: Giambattista Basile's Lo cunto de li cunti and the Birth of the Literary Fairy Tale (Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 1999). Winner of Modern Language Language Association Howard R. Marraro and Jeanne Scaglione Prize for best book in Italian Studies (2000), and American Library Association Choice Outstanding Academic Title Award (2001)
Carlo Collodi's The Adventures of Pinocchio, a translation with introduction
(South Royalton, VT: Steerforth Italia, 2002)
Roberto Benigni's Pinocchio [film], translation (subtitles)
(Rome: Melampo Cinematografica, 2002)
Giambattista Basile's The Tale of Tales, or Entertainment for Little Ones, a translated edition, with introduction and notes (Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 2007)
Works in Progress:
The Enchanted Boot: An Anthology of Italian Fairy Tales, translation with introduction, section essays, and notes
(Detroit: Wayne State University, forthcoming)
Baroque Metamorphoses: Cultural Shifts in Seventeenth-Century Naples
Teaching the Fairy Tale
Courses:
2009-2010: on leave
Italian 81: Italian Fairy Tales (Spring 2011)
Comparative Literature 39: The Literary Fairy Tale (Winter 2012)
