Contributors
- Contributors
Kathryn M. Anderson-Holmes received her bachelor’s and master’s degrees from Utah State University in American studies with an emphasis in folklore, where her thesis examined the Disney princess. She is currently a PhD candidate in American studies at The Pennsylvania State University, where she also focuses on folklore and gender.
Megan Armknecht graduated from Brigham Young University in April 2015 with a bachelor’s degree in English. She recently completed a master’s degree in U.S. history at the University of Oxford. Her dissertation focused on Louisa Catherine Adams’s role in American diplomacy in St. Petersburg during the Wars of 1812.
Shannon Branfield is a graduate student at Utah State University. She is pursuing a master’s degree in English and plans to continue on to a PhD. Her research areas include Victorian literature, popular culture, children’s literature, and folklore and fairy tales.
Elizabeth Bullen teaches literary studies at Deakin University, Melbourne, Australia. Her research on fairy tales includes the chapter on Australian fairy-tale films (with Naarah Sawers) in Fairy-Tale Films Beyond Disney. Her current research is informed by theories of affect and emotion and their national and transnational circuits in children’s texts.
Amy Carlson is the head of the Collection Services Division at the University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa Library. She is a PhD candidate in the English Department, concentrating on fairy tales, online comics, and adaptations. [End Page 199]
Anne E. Duggan is professor of French at Wayne State University, author of Queer Enchantments: Gender, Sexuality, and Class in the Fairy-Tale Cinema of Jacques Demy (2013), co-editor of Folktales and Fairy Tales: Traditions and Texts from Around the World (2016), and co-editor of Marvels & Tales.
Anelise Farris is a PhD candidate in English at Idaho State University. She received a BA in English with a concentration in folklore, mythology, and literature, an MA in English literature, and a Graduate Certificate in folklore studies from George Mason University. Her research interests include folklore, literature of the fantastic, and children’s literature.
Sibelan Forrester is a professor of Russian at Swarthmore College. She is a specialist in twentieth-century Russian poetry with strong research interests in folklore, women’s and gender studies, and literary translation. She has translated Vladimir Propp’s book The Russian Folktale (2012) and other works from Croatian, Russian, and Serbian.
Pauline Greenhill is a professor of women’s and gender studies at the University of Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada. Her most recent book is Fairy-Tale Films Beyond Disney: International Perspectives (co-edited with Jack Zipes and Kendra Magnus-Johnston, 2016). She co-edited Channeling Wonder: Fairy Tales on Television (2014) with Jill Terry Rudy.
Bethany Hanks received her undergraduate degree in English from Brigham Young University and is now a folklore graduate student at Utah State University. An interest in fairy tales brought her into the field of folklore, and her recent studies have focused on Italian fairy tales.
Geneva Harline is currently a student of folklore at Utah State University. Her primary focus is on how societies use various genres of folklore to reinforce the social norm.
Alexandra Haynes is a first-year graduate student in the English Department of Utah State University, where she also teaches. Her research interests include urban legends about women and female sexuality, and she hopes to write her thesis on legends within the online sex worker community.
Joanna Hearne is an associate professor of film studies in the English Department at the University of Missouri, where she also directs the Digital Storytelling Program. In 2012 she published two books about Indigenous media [End Page 200] history: Native Recognition: Indigenous Cinema and the Western and Smoke Signals: Native Cinema Rising.
Kirstian Lezubski holds an MA in cultural studies from the University of Winnipeg. Her research focuses on young people’s texts and cultures.
Rona May-Ron is a doctoral candidate at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and teaches English as a foreign language in the university’s pre-academic program. Fascinated by the intersection of feminism and fairy-tale studies, her PhD thesis traces the subversion and re-visioning of the Cinderella tale in Margaret...
