📣 Call for Papers!

International Conference “Grazia Deledda’s Waves: Networks, Memories and Legacies 100 Years After the Nobel Prize”

📍 Murray Edwards College Cambridge, University of Cambridge
📅 25-26 September 2026

🔗 Webpage: conferencegraziadeleddacambridge2026.wordpress.com/call-for-pap...

"Seekers of Wonder" by @elenasottilotta.bsky.social pioneers the comparison of women's roles in Italian & #IrishFolklore & #FairyTales 1870-1920 collected / written by #WomenWriters Laura Gonzenbach, Grazia Deledda #JaneWilde & #AugustaGregory

#IrishLiterature #IrishStudies #Folklore

We are delighted to hear that @elenasottilotta.bsky.social’s Seekers of Wonder has been shortlisted for @folkloresociety.bsky.social's Katharine Briggs Award! The winner will be announced on Tues, 11 Nov at Swedenborg Hall, London following the Katharine Briggs Lecture.

Learn more: buff.ly/RMBMEzL

The launch of 'Seekers of Wonder: Women Writing Folk and Fairy Tales in Nineteenth-Century Italy and Ireland' by Italian Section's Elena Sottilotta will be taking place on 3 July at Murray Edwards College.
For more details and to register, please visit: www.murrayedwards.cam.ac.uk/conversation...

In June I'm writing for most of the month, with a few breaks for dossing around reading in the garden with a big jug of something cold. But on 30 June I'm back in lovely Cambridge for #SeedTalks - really looking forward to it!
Tickets on sale now:
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-art-hi...

As part of our Folklore Reimagined season, Yinka Olusoga and Catherine Bannister discuss how children are recreating festival traditions and seasonal customs in online spaces, and what lessons this can teach us about children’s digital play and wellbeing. Watch the full video here:

Dr Elena Emma Sottilotta (2018, Italian) has written 'Seekers of Wonder: Women Writing Folk and Fairy Tales in Nineteenth-Century Italy and Ireland' (@princetonupress.bsky.social) based on the research she carried out during her time at Catz: press.princeton.edu/.... 2/3

Good news for book-lovers as three Catz alumnae have new publications for us to enjoy! Dr Alice Chadwick (1991, English) has released her debut novel 'Dark Like Under' (@dauntbookspub.bsky.social): dauntbookspublishing.... 1/3

During the conference Fairy-Tale Trouble and the Art of Fluidity at @crasshlive.bsky.social, University of Cambridge, scholars, artists and performers came together to explore the transformative power of fairy tales.

🌊✨Read the full event summary here: www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/blog/event-s...

A fantastic evening at the British Academy for the launch of the new themed season “Folklore Reimagined”, curated by Ronald Hutton and Marina Warner. Together with Matthew Cheeseman, we reflected on the resurgence of interest in folklore.
#FolkloreReimagined #BritishAcademy

With Seekers of Wonder, Elena Sottilotta offers the first comparative study of women’s manifold roles in the collection of Italian and Irish folklore and fairy tales between 1870 and 1920.

Out now. Learn more and order your copy of this pioneering book: press.princeton.edu/books/hardco...

Tomorrow (10 April) at 7:10 pm BST: Seekers of Wonder author Elena Sottilotta will be at the @britishacademy.bsky.social to participate in the launch event of "Folklore Reimagined." She will take part in the panel discussion "Lore and Identity."

Tickets: www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/events/folkl...

Join PUP author Elena Emma Sottilotta at LUMSA University tomorrow (4 April) at 9:30 am CEST for the launch of her new book, Seekers of Wonder: Women Writing Folk and Fairy Tales in Nineteenth-Century Italy and Ireland.

Learn more:

💫 Cambridge Festival
Fairy-Tale Mirages: A creative storytelling workshop

👨‍👩‍👦 Adults
🗓️ 22 March 4.30-6pm
📍 CB3 9DP
🎟️ buff.ly/US4fvoA

Dive into fairy tales from the Mediterranean sea & activities based on Sicilian and Calabrian fairy tales that feature liminal sea creatures

HELP! more books for my hazardous TBR pile #sobs #booksky #fairytales #books #womenshistorymonth

Join us for the pop-up exhibition of Emma Dante's fairy tales, illustrated by Maria Cristina Costa, at the Alison Richard Building, on 21-22 March. The exhibition is part of the CRASSH conference 'Fairy-Tale Trouble and the Art of Fluidity', organised by Elena Sottilotta and Alice Parrinello.