Contributors
- Contributors
Todd Avery is a cultural historian whose work centers on the Bloomsbury Group and on relations between modernism and mass culture. His publications include Radio Modernism (1996) and articles on early British radio, Virginia Woolf, Lytton Strachey, and Bloomsbury's contributions to ethical discourse in the early twentieth century. He and his wife, writer Gigi Thibodeau, live in New England, where they explore the woods carefully.
Shuli Barzilai is the author of Lacan and the Matter of Origins (1999) and Tales of Bluebeard and His Wives from Late Antiquity to Postmodern Times (2009). She has published articles on literary theory and contemporary women's writing in Critique, Marvels & Tales, PMLA, Signs, Word & Image, and other journals.
Diana Bianchi graduated in English language and literature at the University of Bologna and currently teaches English at the University of Perugia. Previously she was a lecturer in Italian at the University of Westminster in London and taught translation at the Advanced School of Modern Languages for Interpreters and Translators (University of Bologna at Forlì). Her main research interests and publications revolve around issues of language and representation.
Luciana Cardi graduated in English and Japanese language and literature from L'Orientale University in Naples, Italy. She received her master's degree in Japanese studies at Osaka University of Foreign Languages and is currently completing a PhD in comparative literature at L'Orientale University. Her research focuses on modern rewritings of Japanese fairy tales.
Rebecca-Anne C. Do Rozario teaches fairy tale and children's and fantasy literature at Monash University, Australia. She has published work on a range of [End Page 188] topics, including Disney animated features, musical theater, contemporary children's fantasy, and the appearance of paratextual material in contemporary novels.
Anne E. Duggan is associate professor of French and director of women's studies at Wayne State University. She has published on women and gender in the early modern period and currently is working on a book-length project on the fairy-tale cinema of French director Jacques Demy.
Merja Makinen is a principal lecturer in English literature at Middlesex University. Her research spans gender theory, twentieth-century women's writing, and women genre writers. Her latest books include Feminist Popular Fiction (2001), The Novels of Jeanette Winterson (2005), and Agatha Christie: Investigating Femininity (2006).
Sadhana Naithani is professor of German studies in Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi. She is currently writing a book on Lutz Röhrich in the context of German folkloristics. She is the author of In Quest of Indian Folktales (2006) and The Story-Time of the British Empire (2010).
Catia Nannoni graduated in French language and literature at the University of Bologna and holds a PhD in translation. She taught French in Italian state schools and is now a lecturer of French in the Faculty of Education at the University of Perugia. She is mainly interested in literary translation, narratology, the translation of children's literature, and translation criticism.
Theresa Osborne is the program facilitator and folklorist for the Appalachian Program at Southeast Kentucky Community and Technical College as well as a part-time faculty member for the Folk Studies and Anthropology Department at Western Kentucky University.
Kate Pendlebury is a South African PhD student at the University of Pittsburgh. Her interests include literary nonsense, children's picture books and short fiction, and (stylistically and politically) radical art and literature for children and adults of the modernist period and beyond. She is also a professional inventor of anagrams.
Luisa Rubini Messerli teaches German studies at the University of Lausanne. She obtained her PhD in European folk literature at the University of Zurich. Following a professorship supported by the Swiss National Science Foundation at the University of Lausanne (2003-2009), she received university teaching credentials [End Page 189] there to lecture in both the German and Italian sections. Her habilitation thesis is titled Unterhaltungsliteratur in Deutschland um 1500: Die Rezeption von Boccaccios Dekameron insbesondere anhand der Einzeldrucke (2011).
Michelle Ryan-Sautour conducts research on the speculative fiction and short stories of Angela Carter with a special emphasis on reading pragmatics, game theory, and gender. She is a member of the short story section of the CRILA (Centre...
