Suzanne Magnanini
Associate Professor • Department Chair
Italian

WDBY 402

Fall 2024 Office Hours:
Mondays 9:30AM - 10:30AM
Wednesdays 12:30PM - 1:30PM & by appointment

Biography

Professor Magnanini received her B.A. from Washington University in Saint Louis before obtaining her M.A. and Ph.D. in Italian from the University of Chicago. She specializes in Renaissance and Baroque Literature, with particular interests in fairy tales, gender issues, and the translation and editing of early modern texts. She is currently working on a book that examines the representations love and lovers on trial in early modern Italy.听 She has received grants from the NEH to attend a Summer Institute on early modern women writers and for a collaborative project, as well as from the Gladys Krieble Delmas foundation to conduct research in Venice. She was a University of Colorado CHA Faculty Fellow during Spring 2015.

Books

  • Fairy-Tale Science:听 Monstrous Generation in the Fairy Tales of Straparola and Basile.听Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2008.
  • 听 ***University of Colorado鈥檚 Eugene Kayden Book Prize, 2010
  • The Pleasant Nights by Giovan Francesco Straparola.听听Translated, Edited, with an Introduction by Suzanne Magnanini. The Other Voice in Early Modern Europe Series. Toronto Series. Iter and Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies.听 526 pages.听听Forthcoming in 2015.听

Selected Articles & Chapters

  • "The Italian Literary Fairy Tale."听Fairy Tales Framed: Forewards, Afterwards and CriticalWords. Ed. Ruth Bottigheimer. NY: SUNY Press, 2012. 25-40听
  • ***CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title 2012.
  • 鈥淏etween Straparola and Basile: Three Fairy Tales from Lorenzo Selva鈥檚听Della metamorfosi听(1582).鈥澨Marvels and Tales听(a special issue in honor of Jacques Barchilon) 25.2 (2011): 331-370.
  • Selections from听听Dei donneschi difetti.听听Selected, Edited, Translated, with and Introduction by Suzanne Magnanini, With Latin Translations by David Lamari.听听In Dialogue with the Other Voice in Sixteenth-Century Italy: Literary Contexts for Women鈥檚 Writing. Eds. Julie Campbell and Maria Galli Stampino. The Other Voice in Early Modern Italy: The Toronto Series, 11.听 Toronto: Iter, Inc., 2011.听 143-194.
  • 鈥淧ostulated Routes from Naples to Paris:听 Antonio Bulifon and the Italian Literary Fairy Tale in France.鈥澨Marvels and Tales听21.1 (2007):听 78-92.
  • 鈥淯na selva luminosa:听 Day Two of Moderata Fonte鈥檚听The Worth of Women.鈥澨Journal of Modern Philology听101.2 (November 2003): 278-96.听
  • 鈥淕irolamo Parabosco's听"L'Hermafrodito:听An Irregular听Commedia Regolare."听 Monsters in the Italian Literary Imagination.听Ed. Keala Jewell.听 Detroit:听 Wayne State Press, 2001.听 203-221.