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Contributors
Lee Haring is Professor Emeritus of English at Brooklyn College of the City University of New York. His research on the islands of the Indian Ocean has been published in the books Stars and Keys and Verbal Arts in Madagascar as well as in numerous journal articles in the United States and Europe.
Vanessa Joosen is a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Tilburg and a visiting professor of children’s literature at the University of Antwerp. She is the author of Critical and Creative Perspectives of Fairy Tales: An Intertextual Dialogue Between Fairy-Tale Scholarship and Postmodern Retellings (2011) and co-editor of Grimms’ Tales Around the Globe (with Gillian Lathey, forthcoming). Her current research focuses on the construction of adulthood in children’s books.
Jeana Jorgensen received her Ph.D. in folklore from Indiana University. Her dissertation was on gender and the body in European fairy tales. In addition to researching fairy tales, she also studies narrative folklore, feminist theory, dance, body art, and fantastic literature.
Dominique Jullien is a professor of French and comparative literature at the University of California, Santa Barbara. Her books include Proust et ses modèles: les Mille et une nuits et les Mémoires de Saint-Simon dans A la recherche du temps perdu (1989) and Les Amoureux de Schéhérazade: variations modernes sur les Mille et une nuits (2009), and she recently edited a collection of essays on world literature, Foundational Texts of World Literature (2011).
Anna Kérchy is a senior assistant professor at the University of Szeged, Hungary. She has written a monograph on Angela Carter’s body-texts (2008), edited [End Page 216] collections on postmodern reinterpretations of fairy tales (2011) and the literary fantastic (2009), and published fifty refereed articles on themes related to intermedial cultural representations, the postsemiotics of embodied subjectivity, gender studies, and children’s literature. Her current book project focuses on the unspeakable and the unimaginable in Lewis Carroll’s Alice tales and their postmodern adaptations.
Tatiana Korneeva is currently a teaching assistant in the Department of Comparative Literature at the Free University, Berlin, within the ERC-funded project “DramaNet: Early Modern Drama and the Cultural Net.” She studied comparative literature and classical philology at the Lomonosov Moscow State University, the Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa, and the University of Lausanne. Her research interests include eighteenth-century theater and literary theory, fairy-tales studies, and theories of adaptation. She is the author of Alter et ipse: identità e duplicità nel sistema dei personaggi della Tebaide di Stazio (2011). Her articles have appeared in Modern Language Notes, German Life and Letters, Comparatio: Zeitschrift für Vergleichende Literaturwissenschaft, Marvels and Tales, Maia, and Studi Classici e Orientali.
Martin Lovelace studied English literature at the University of Wales (Swansea) and the University of Alberta. At Memorial University in St. John’s, Newfoundland, he underwent a conversion experience and became a folklorist. He has taught at Memorial since 1980, specializing in ballad and folktale.
Armando Maggi is a professor of romance languages and literature at the University of Chicago, where he also serves on the Committee on the History of Culture. He is the author of several volumes on early modern demonology, mysticism, and Renaissance culture. He has completed a new book on Western fairy tales titled Preserving the Spell.
Ulrich Marzolph is a professor of Islamic studies at the Georg-August-University in Göttingen, Germany, and a senior member of the editorial committee of the Enzyklopädie des Märchens. He specializes in the narrative culture of the Near East, with particular emphasis on Arab and Persian folk narrative and popular literature.
Mayako Murai is a professor in the English Department at Kanagawa University, Japan. Her recent writings appeared in Anti-Tales (2011) and Postmodern Reinterpretations of Fairy Tales (2011). She is currently working on a book provisionally titled Seductions and Transformations: Cross-Cultural Perspectives on Fairy Tales in Contemporary Japanese Literature and Art. [End Page 217]
Theo Meder is a folk narrative researcher at the Meertens Instituut in Amsterdam. He is coordinator of the Dutch Folktale Database (www.verhalenbank.nl) and, as a member of the International Society for Folk-Narrative Research, coordinator of the committee for folktales and the Internet. He has published in several international journals, including Fabula, Folklore, Humor, Quotidian, Contemporary Legend, and Western Folklore. In 2007 he wrote The Flying Dutchman and Other Folktales from the Netherlands.
Wolfgang Mieder is a university distinguished professor of German and folklore at the University of Vermont. He was the chairperson of the Department of German and Russian for more than three decades. His numerous books deal with literary topics but primarily with various folk narrative genres from fairy tales to folktales and folk songs. He is the founding editor of Proverbium: Yearbook of International Proverb Scholarship, and he is internationally known for his books on the multifaceted aspects of proverbs.
Margaret Mills is professor emerita of the Department of Near East Languages and Cultures at The Ohio State University. With a general interest in folklore and gender studies topics, she specializes in the popular culture of the Persian-speaking world, and her current oral history and folklore research is in Afghanistan. She is the co-editor of South Asian Folklore: An Encyclopedia with Peter Claus and Sarah Diamond (2003) and of Gender, Genre, and Power in South Asian Expressive Traditions with Arjun Appadurai and Frank J. Korom (1991); and she is the co-author of Conversations with Davlat Khalav: Oral Narratives from Tajikistan with Ravshan Rahmoni (2000) and the author of Oral Narrative in Afghanistan: The Individual in Tradition (1990). Her essay “Destroying Patriarchy to Save It: Safdár Tawakkoli’s Afghan Boxwoman” appeared in Transgressive Tales: Queering the Grimms (2012).
Sadhana Naithani is professor at the Centre of German Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi. Her forthcoming book is Folklore Theory in Postwar Germany (2014).
Carmen Nolte recently completed her Ph.D. in English at the University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa with a comparatist dissertation titled “The Containment of Childhood: Children’s Literature and Political Rights,” which investigates how texts for children engage the child’s political status. She has taught courses such as “Introduction to Literature and Culture: Literature and Migration,” “Children’s Literature,” and “Fairy Tales and Their Adaptations,” and she has presented papers at the National Popular Culture and American Culture [End Page 218] Associations (PCA/ACA), the Pacific Ancient and Modern Language Association (PAMLA), and the Place and Space in Children’s Literature Conference in Oxford.
Lewis C. Seifert is professor of French studies at Brown University. He is the author of Fairy Tales, Sexuality, and Gender in France, 1690–1715: Nostalgic Utopias (1996) and Manning the Margins: Masculinity and Writing in Seventeenth-Century France (2009). His current research includes projects on friendship and gender in early modern France and on the trickster in North American and Caribbean Francophone folklore.
Maria Tatar is the John L. Loeb Professor of German Studies and Folklore and Mythology at Harvard University. She is the author of The Annotated Brothers Grimm, The Annotated Hans Christian Andersen, Enchanted Hunters, and other volumes. She is a frequent contributor to the New York Times and The New Yorker.
Francisco Vaz da Silva teaches anthropology and folklore at Instituto Universitário de Lisboa (ISCTE-IUL), Lisbon, Portugal. He has published extensively on symbolic codes in folklore and wonder tales. Recently he edited an annotated seven-volume collection of European wonder tales, Contos Maravilhosos Europeus (2011–2013).
Jacquilyn Weeks is a visiting assistant professor at Indiana University/Purdue University, Indianapolis. She is completing a monograph titled The Whole Enchanted String: Fairy Tales and the History of British Poetics and strongly suspects that a frolic of fairies have taken up residence at the bottom of her garden.
Christy Williams is an instructor in the English department at Hawai‘i Pacific University, and her research is on contemporary literary fairy tales and retellings. She received her Ph.D. from the University of Hawai‘i, Mānoa, in 2012; her dissertation is titled “Re-Conceptualizing Gender Through Narrative Play in Fairy-Tale Retellings.”
Jack Zipes is professor emeritus of German and comparative literature at the University of Minnesota. In addition to his scholarly work, he is an active storyteller in public schools and has worked with children’s theaters in Europe and the United States. Some of his major publications include Breaking the Magic Spell: Radical Theories of Folk and Fairy Tales (1979), Fairy Tales and the [End Page 219] Art of Subversion (rev. ed., 2006), The Brothers Grimm: From Enchanted Forests to the Modern World (1988), Hans Christian Andersen: The Misunderstood Storyteller (2005), and Why Fairy Tales Stick: The Evolution and Relevance of a Genre (2006). He has also edited The Oxford Companion to Fairy Tales (2000) and The Great Fairy Tale Tradition (2001) and is editor-in-chief of the series Oddly Modern Fairy Tales published by Princeton University Press. Most recently he has published The Enchanted Screen: The Unknown History of Fairy-Tale Films (2010) and The Irresistible Fairy Tale: The Cultural and Social History of a Genre (2012). In 2013 he received a Leverhulme Fellowship from Anglia Ruskin University in Cambridge (UK) and will be developing projects pertaining to children’s literature and folklore. [End Page 220]
