Contributors
- Contributors
Michelle Ann Abate is an associate professor of English at Hollins University, where she serves as the editor of the journal Children’s Literature. Michelle is the author of the books Raising Your Kids Right: Children’s Literature and American Political Conservatism (2010) and Tomboys: A Literary and Cultural History (2008). Also, with Kenneth B. Kidd, she coedited the collection Over the Rainbow: Queer Children’s and Young Adult Literature (2011).
Jörg Bäcker has a PhD in Sinology, Mongolian, and Manchu studies. His fields of research are folklore and religions of Chinese minorities and Central Asian and Siberian peoples; mutual influences in historical perspective; and East-West cultural relations in Asia. Recent publications include the articles “Schamanismus” and “Weltenbaum” (cosmic tree) in the Enzyklopädie des Märchens and a study of a Central Asian prototype of Snow White in Fabula.
Jo Carney is an associate professor of English at the College of New Jersey, where she teaches early modern and contemporary literature. She is currently working on a book about Shakespeare’s late plays and the intertextual use of fairy tales.
Jennifer Gipson is an assistant professor of French at the University of Wisconsin, Madison. Her research examines orality in French literature, especially how figures of the storyteller, including Scheherazade, become a reference point for nineteenth-century modernity and print culture. She has also published articles on the folklore and literature of French Louisiana.
Elizabeth Wanning Harries is Helen and Laura Shedd Professor Emerita of Modern Languages at Smith College. Her work on literary fairy tales includes [End Page 300] Twice upon a Time: Women Writers and the History of the Fairy Tale (2001) and “‘Ancient Forms’: Myth, Fairy Tale, and Narrative in A. S. Byatt’s Fiction” (in Contemporary Writers and the Fairy Tale, Ed. Stephen Benson, 2009).
Carina Hart is a final-year PhD candidate at the University of East Anglia; she has also studied at Cambridge and York Universities. Her work examines metaphors of human beauty in contemporary fiction, tracing their evolution through myth and fairy tale.
Martine Hennard Dutheil de la Rochère teaches modern English and comparative literature at the University of Lausanne, Switzerland. Her research interests include aspects of modern and contemporary literature, especially postcolonial and postmodern fiction, fairy-tale rewritings, and translation studies. She is the author of Origin and Originality in Salman Rushdie’s Fiction (1999) and coeditor of Satan and After (2010) and Des Fata aux fées: Regards croisés de l’Antiquité à nos jours (2011). She has published essays in Fairy Tales Reimagined and various journals, including MFS and Dickens Quarterly. Her book on the interplay of translation and rewriting in Angela Carter’s short fiction is forthcoming.
Karin Kukkonen is Balzan Postdoctoral Fellow at St. John’s College, Oxford. She has published on the fairy tale’s engagement with postmodernism and on the transmediality of fairy-tale traditions in the comics series Fables. Her current research project investigates the cognitive underpinnings of rules of poetics (such as the dramatic unities and poetic justice).
Bérénice V. Le Marchand is an associate professor of French at San Francisco State University. She specializes in early modern literature, culture, and performances. She has recently published on representations of theatricality in seventeenth-century fairy tales. She is currently working on a book about performances and staging in seventeenth-century fairy tales.
Kendra Magnusson is a PhD student at the University of Manitoba in the Department of English, Film, and Theatre. She works as a teaching and research assistant at the University of Winnipeg, where she completed her bachelor’s degree in rhetoric and communications and her master’s degree in cultural studies.
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 [End Page 301] 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. His recent publications include The Arabian Nights Encyclopedia (together with Richard van Leeuwen [2004]), The Arabian Nights Reader (2006), and The Arabian Nights in Transnational Perspective (2007).
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