Alessandro Cabiati

Alessandro Cabiati is a Researcher at Ca' Foscari University of Venice's Department of Comparative Linguistic and Cultural Studies. He was a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Global Fellow (2021-2024) and a Visiting Scholar at Brown University (2022-23). His research focuses on the intersection of fairy tales, psychiatry, and gender studies during the 19th and 20th centuries.

• PhD in Comparative Literature (King's College London)
• Master of Studies in Modern Languages with English (Oxford University)
• BA in English and French (Università Statale di Milano)

His research interests span Victorian culture, Gothic literature, decadence, and the historical relationship between medical theories and literary representations of deviance. Recent projects include analyzing how 19th-century psychiatry influenced fairy tale imagery and vice versa.

Key publications include Ogresses of Crime Narratives (forthcoming, 2025), Norm and Transgression in the Fairy-Tale Tradition (2025), and Baudelaire and the Making of Italian Modernity (2022). His work frequently explores female monstrosity, narrative violence, and interdisciplinary methodologies.

• Jamie Bishop Memorial Award (2019)

Cabiati actively organizes academic conferences on fairy tales and children's literature adaptation, including co-organizing Riscrivere la fiaba: Percorsi di un genere tra tradizione e adattamento (2024) and Adaptation and the Fairy Tale: Alice Before and After (2023).