Books

Northrop Frye and the Poetics of Process. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2000.

Other Publications

"The Quiet One," in Christine Sansalone, Diana Iuele-Colilli and Maria pia Spadafora, editors, The Nuances of Love: Celebrating 40 Years of Italian-Canadian Voices. Guernica Editions. Toronto: 2025.

"Helenae Uxori," in Lemond, Edward and Cyr, Suzanne, Editors, A Giant in Time: An Anthology of Writings in Honour of Northrop Frye's 100th Birthday, Ellipse, No 87-88 Fredericton, New Brunswick, 2012.

"For Pat Lowther", in Greco, Heidi, and Jaffe, Ellen S., Editors, "A Tribute to Pat Lowther, on what would have been her 75th birthday," Living Archives of the Feminist Caucus, The League of Canadian Poets, Toronto, 2011.

Translation from Italian of “The New American Dreams over the Great Lakes.” Interview given by N. Frye to La Repubblica. See: Interviews with Northrop Frye. The Collected Works of Northrop Frye. Vol .24. Ed. Jean O’Grady. University of Toronto Press, 2008. P442-444.

Translation from Italian of “Four Questions for Northrop Frye.” Interview given by N. Frye to Alfabeta. See: Interviews with Northrop Frye. The Collected Works of Northrop Frye. Vol .24. Ed. Jean O’Grady. University of Toronto Press, 2008. P.445-448. 

Translation from Italian of “I Tried to Shatter the Shell of Historicism.” Interview given by N. Frye to Tuttolibri. See: Interviews with Northrop Frye. The Collected Works of Northrop Frye. Vol .24. Ed. Jean O’Grady. University of Toronto Press, 2008. P.449-451.

Translation from Italian of “The Wisdom of the Reader.” Interview given by N. Frye to L’Unita. See: Interviews with Northrop Frye. The Collected Works of Northrop Frye. Vol .24. Ed. Jean O’Grady. University of Toronto Press, 2008.  P.452-454.

"Process and Possibility: Northrop Frye’s Spiritual Vision.” Keynote address delivered April 27, 2002, at the Northrop Frye International Literary Festival, Moncton. Published in: Jo-Anne Elder and Herménégilde Chiasson eds. Ellipse, No.69, Spring 2003.54-57. Also published in Verticals of Frye / Les Verticals de Frye. Edward Lemond ed. 2005. p.16. See: https://macblog.mcmaster.ca/fryeblog/2010/04/12/nella-cotrupi-process-and-possibility-northrop-fryes-spiritual-vision/

“The Body and the Spirit” Review of The Diaries of Northrop Frye (Volume 8 of the Collected Works of Northrop Frye), Books in Canada, April 2002. 

“Northrop Frye: Turning the Sacred Cow of Ideology out to Pasture” Review of Rereading Frye, ed. David V. Boyd and Imre Salusinszky, Books in Canada, May 1999.

"What Happened to Helen?" Review of The Correspondence of Northrop Frye and Helen Kemp, 1932-1939. Books in Canada, December 1996.

"Verum Factum: Viconian Markers Along Frye's Path." The Legacy of Northrop Frye. Alvin A. Lee and Robert D. Denham eds. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1994.

"Vico, Burke and Frye's Flirtation with the Sublime."  Giambattista Vico and Anglo-American Science, Philosophy and Writing. Marcello Danesi ed. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter, 1994.

"Hyper-metafiction: Italo Calvino's If on a Winter's Night a Traveler." Style, Vol.25, No.2, Summer 1991. 289-90.

Presentations

Congress 23 Federation for the Humanities and Social Sciences. May 2023. Readings by Italo-Canadian Writers.

Librissimi: Toronto Italian Book Festival, May 2023. Moderator of Panel on Literary Translation. Panelists: Connie Guzzo-McParland, Nino Famà, Annalisa Panati, Damiano Pietropaolo

Caravaggio’s Self Portraits: Mirroring the Modern Gaze. Webinar, Organized by Classical Pursuits and Worldwide Quest. January 2022. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AxUc4-ZRtgg

Presentations for “Vincent van Gogh’s Quest.” Amsterdam, Paris, Provence: Organized by Classical Pursuits and Worldwide Quest. Spring 2019.

Presentation, “Fresh Eyes on Van Gogh”, Feb. 13, 2018, Hart House Dinner Series, University of Toronto

Presentations on the Naples Quartet (My Brilliant Friend) of Elena Ferrante.  Naples and Ischia: organized by Classical Pursuits and Worldwide Quest. Spring 2017. 

Presentations on James Joyce, Italo Svevo, Umberto Saba, Rainer Maria Rilke and Tea Obrecht. Trieste: organized by Classical Pursuits and Worldwide Quest. Spring 2015.

“Literature and the Bible in a Secular Age”, presented at the Toronto Public Library, April 28, 2015.

“Process and Possibility: Northrop Frye’s Spiritual Vision.” Keynote address delivered April 27, 2002 at the Northrop Frye International Literary Festival, Moncton. Published in Ellipse, No.69, Spring 2003.54-57. See: https://macblog.mcmaster.ca/fryeblog/2010/04/12/nella-cotrupi-process-and-possibility-northrop-fryes-spiritual-vision/

Poetry

Click here for selected poems by Nella Cotrupi online.

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