Contributors
- Contributors
Satu Apo is a professor of Folklore Studies at the University of Helsinki in Finland. Her doctoral dissertation (Ihmesadun rakenne, 1986; The Narrative World of Finnish Fairy Tales, 1995) explored the structure, agency, and sociohistorical context of Finnish magic tales. Together with Märtha Norrback she published a bilingual anthology, Topelius elää—Topelius lever, dedicated to Finland’s best-known nineteenth-century fairy-tale writer (2005). She has conducted research on gender (Naisen väki, 1995) and on traditional alcohol culture in agrarian Finland (Viinan voima, 2001). With Aili Nennola and Laura Stark-Arola she edited the anthology Gender and Folklore (1998).
Ruth B. Bottigheimer, adjunct professor in Comparative Literature at the State University of New York at Stony Brook, has published Fairy Tales and Society: Illusion, Allusion, and Paradigm (1986), Grimms’ Bad Girls and Bold Boys: The Moral and Social Vision of the Tales (1987), The Bible for Children from the Age of Gutenberg to the Present (1996), and Fairy Godfather: Straparola, Venice, and the Fairy Tale Tradition (2002). In scholarly and encyclopedia articles she challenges assumptions about oral origins and transmission of fairy tales and asserts their postmedieval and urban roots.
Stephen Canham is an associate professor and sometime teacher of children’s literature at the University of Hawai‘i at Ma¯noa.
Justyna Deszcz-Tryhubczak received her PhD from Wroclaw University, Poland, where she teaches courses on British literature, fantasy, and ecocriticism, and where she is a cofounder of the Center for Children’s and Young Adult Fiction. She has published on Salman Rushdie, Angela Carter, fairy tales, and fantasy for young adults. [End Page 181]
Abd-El-Hameed Hawwas, Profesesor of Folklore, teaches folk culture and folk literature at the Center for Folk Studies, which houses Egypt’s National Archive of Fieldwork Records, in the Institute for Advanced Folklore Studies in Cairo. He has published The Study of Folk Habits and Customs (1969), The Sources of Arabic Folklore (1973), The Banihilal Epic (1990), Phantoms and Shadows: Writings on the Relationship between Cinema Art and Cultural Traditions (2000), a Guide to Fieldwork (2000), Papers in Folk Culture (2002, 2005), and has also translated and published sections of Vladimir Propps’s Morphology of the Folktale into Arabic. In spring 2006 he was a visiting professor at the Institute of Near Eastern Studies at Harvard University, teaching medieval romance and contemporary Arabic short stories. In June 2006 he received the prestigious Egyptian State Award for Achievements in the Humanities.
Theresa Anne Jordan is a PhD student in Modern Languages at Wayne State University. She received her BA in French from the University of Michigan–Dearborn in 1999 and her MA in French literature in 2003 from Wayne State. Her interests include the interpretation of fairy tales, with a focus on feminism, gender issues, religion, the role of children in fairy tales, and the effects that supernatural occurrences have on characters in both euphoric and dysphoric tales
Caroline Jumel is an assistant professor of French literature at Oakland University. She received her PhD from Wayne State University in 2003 with a dissertation on George Sand and her representation of female spaces. Her current research focuses on cross-dressing throughout the centuries in French literature.
Maria Kaliambou’s research interests are related to folktale research, popular literature, history and theory of folklore, Philhellenism, and Southeast European cultural studies. She received a diploma in history and archaeology at the University of Thessaloniki in 1997, and a PhD in folklore studies and European ethnology at the University of Munich in 2005. In 2006 she was a research fellow at the University of Lille 3, France, and in 2006–2007 Dr. Kaliambou was a Hellenic studies postdoctoral fellow at Princeton University. She has published Heimat—Glaube—Familie: Wertevermittlungen in griechischen Popular-märchen, 1870–1970 [Homeland—Belief—Family: The Transmission of Values in Greek Popular Tales], 2006.
Seth Knox is assistant professor of German at Adrian College. He has published on twentieth-century German travel literature, and he is the author of the [End Page 182] forthcoming book Weimar Germany between Two Worlds: The American and Russian Travels of Kitsch, Toller, Holitscher, Goldschmidt, and Rundt.
Jon D. Lee is a doctoral student at...
