Dr Elena Sottilotta
Degrees:
- PhD, University of Cambridge
Research Interests:
- Women’s and gender studies
- Folklore and fairy-tale studies
- Children’s literature
- Comparative literature
- Mediterranean studies
- Island studies
- Film and adaptation studies
- Language pedagogy
Biography:
Dr Elena Sottilotta is a Research Fellow at °Ç¸ç³Ô¹Ï. She obtained her PhD from the University of Cambridge in 2022 with a research project in women’s studies, folklore and fairy-tale studies, funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council and the Vice-Chancellor’s Award. Before joining °Ç¸ç³Ô¹Ï, she was an AHRC Postdoctoral Fellow in the Faculty of Modern and Medieval Languages and Linguistics at the University of Cambridge and a Visiting PhD researcher at Alma Mater Studiorum – Università di Bologna. She is an alumna of the Fulbright Program and of the EU-funded Joint MA Programme Crossways in Cultural Narratives.
Her research seeks to unearth non-canonical figures and narratives in the European fairy-tale tradition, with a focus on neglected women writers, collectors and storytellers. She also has a keen interest in the poetics and politics of adaptation of traditional folk and fairy-tale narratives in contemporary media. She received several scholarships, prizes and awards for her research, including the Women’s Studies Caucus Award (American Association for Italian Studies) and the St. Catharine’s College Prize for Distinction in Research (St. Catharine’s College, University of Cambridge). She is the founder of the .