Contributors
- Contributors
Brian Attebery is the author of Stories about Stories: Fantasy and the Remaking of Myth (Oxford University Press, 2014) and editor of the Journal of the Fantastic in the Arts. One of his recent projects is editing the Library of America's reissued volumes of stories and novels by Ursula K. Le Guin. He teaches at Idaho State University.
Amy Carlson is the Head of the Collection Services Division at the University of Hawaìokinai at Mānoa Library. She is a PhD candidate in the English Department, concentrating on fairy tales, online comics, and adaptations.
Sara Cleto is a PhD candidate at the Ohio State University, where she studies folklore, literature, and the places where they intersect. She specializes in fairy tales, disability studies, and nineteenth-century literature.
Anne E. Duggan is professor of French and chair of the Department of Classical and Modern Languages, Literatures, and Cultures at Wayne State University. Her most recent books include Queer Enchantments: Gender, Sexuality, and Class in the Fairy-Tale Cinema of Jacques Demy (Wayne State University Press, 2013) and Folktales and Fairy Tales: Traditions and Texts from around the World (Wayne State University Press, 2013, 4 volumes, coedited with Donald Haase, with Helen Callow).
Sarah E. Gibbons is an adjunct assistant professor at Lansing Community College and a fixed-term assistant professor at Michigan State University, teaching world literature and mythology, children's literature, and writing. She also writes novels and short stories of the fantasy and science fiction persuasion, but mostly for her own entertainment.
Joanna Gilar is a storyteller and poet with a doctorate in ecological fairy tales from the Sussex Centre for Folklore, Fairy Tales and Fantasy. She teaches folk and storytelling at the University of Chichester, and is interested in creating work that explores the intersection between story and the natural world.
Theodora Goss is a senior lecturer in the boston University College of Arts and Sciences Writing Program and a lecturer in the Stonecoast MFA Program. She has published fiction and nonfiction in a variety of venues, and is writing the Ursula K. Le Guin volume for Modern Masters of Science Fiction (University of Illinois Press).
Abigail Heiniger is an assistant professor of English at Bluefield College. Her research centers on the use of the fantastic in literature by and about women, and she recently published her first book with Routledge: Jane Eyre's Fairytale Legacy at Home and Abroad: Constructions and Deconstructions of National Identity (2016).
Martha Hixon is a professor of English at Middle Tennessee State University, where she teaches courses in children's literature, children's film, and folktales and literature. She has written and published on contemporary revisions of folktales and fairy tales and on fantasy literature for children and young adults.
Jeana Jorgensen earned her PhD in folklore from Indiana University. She teaches folklore, anthropology, and gender studies at Butler University and Indiana University, and has also taught at the University of California, Berkeley. She has published in Marvels & Tales, Cultural Analysis, and The Journal of History and Culture. She also writes poetry, directs a dance troupe, and nurtures a sourdough culture.
Samantha Jorgensen is a Los Angeles-based artist. She received her BFA in Drawing and Painting from California State University, Long Beach, and her Masters in Painting at the University of New Hampshire. She uses both observed and imagined sources in her work to create visual narratives surrounding fantasies and relationships.
Weronika Kostecka is an assistant professor of literature at the Institute of Polish Literature, University of Warsaw. Her research interests include children's and young adult literature, fairy tales and their adaptations, popular culture, and postmodernism in literature. She is the author of three books: W kręgu baśni i fantastyki: Studia o literaturze dziecięcej i młodzieżowej (In the Realm of Fairy Tale and Fantasy: Studies on Children's and Young Adult Literature, coauthor Maciej Skowera, 2017), Baśń postmodernistyczna: Przeobrażenia gatunku—Intertekstualne gry z tradycją literacką (The Postmodern Fairy Tale: Transformations of a Genre—Intertextual Play with Literary Tradition, 2014), and Tajemnica księgi: Tropami współczesnej fantastyki dla dzieci i młodzieży (The Secret of the Book: Following the Traces...
