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Nancy L. Canepa

Associate Professor of French and Italian
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Departments and Programs

  • Comparative Literature
  • French and Italian
  • Women's and Gender Studies

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Contact Information

Email: nancy.l.canepa@dartmouth.edu
Phone: 603-646-2338
Office: 6087 Dartmouth Hall

Education

B.A. Cornell University; M.Phil. Yale University; M.A. Yale University; Ph.D. Yale University

Areas of Expertise

Early modern Italian literature and culture; fairy tales; dialect literature; translation

Selected Works

  • Giambattista Basile, The Tale of Tales or Entertainment of Little Ones, translation, introduction, and notes (2007).
  • Carol Collodi, The Adventures of Pinocchio, translation and introduction (2002).
  • From Court to Forest: Giambattista Basile's "Lo cunto de li cunti" and the Birth of the Literary Fairy Tale, (1999).
  • Out of the Woods: The Origins of the Literary Fairy Tale in Italy and France, (1997).

Current Projects

The Enchanted Boot: An Anthology of Italian Fairy Tales, translations, introductory essays, and notes (forthcoming 2010); Baroque Metamorphoses: Narrative Shifts in Seventeenth Century Italian Literature