Contributors

List of Contributors

Amelia A. Rutledge
Anne Duggan
Alison Lurie
Ann Lawson Lucas
Anne‐Marie Moscatelli
Amy Ransom
Anita Silvey
Adrienne E. Zuerner
Betsy Hearne
Bettina Kümmerling‐Meibauer
Cristina Bacchilega
Carolina Fernandez
Carole Silver
Claire‐Lise Malarte‐Feldman
Cheryl McMillan
Caroline Schatke
Donald Haase
David J. Buch
D. Maureen Thum
Eva‐Marie Metcalf
Elizabeth Wanning Harries
Gillian Avery
Giuseppe Di Scipio
Geoffrey Fenwick
George R. Bodmer
Harriet Goldberg
H. Nicholls B. Clark
Ian Wojcik‐Andrews
John Stephens
Jeannine Blackwell
Joan G. Haahr
James M. McGlathery
Jan Susina
Judith S. Neaman
Jack Zipes
Klaus Doderer
Karen Nelson Hoyle
Karen Seago
Lewis C. Seifert
Louisa Smith
Mary Beth Stein
Mary Louise Ennis
Maria Nikolajeva
Maria Nicolai Paynter
Maria Tatar
Nancy Canepa
Niels Ingwersen
Naomi J. Wood
Patricia Anne Odber de Baubeta
Philip Furia
Peter F. Neumeyer
P. G. Stanwood
Richard A. Schindler
Ruth B. Bottigheimer
Robert Dunbar
Richard Flynn
Robyn McCallum
Stephen Benson
Shawn Jarvis
Suzanne Rahn
Sharon Scapple
Terry Staples
Tom Higgins
Thomas H. Hoernigk
Thomas S. Hischak
Terri Windling
Ulrich Marzolph
William Crisman
Wolfgang Mieder

General Editor

Jack Zipes, has been Professor of German at the University of Minnesota since 1989. He is Editorial Consultant for Children's Literature Quarterly and General Editor of Garland's Studies in Children's Literature and Culture. His many books on fairy tales and associated subjects include Breaking the Spell: Radical Theories of Folk and Fairy Tales (1979), Fairy Tales and the Art of Subversion (1983), Victorian Fairy Tales (1987), The Complete Fairy Tales of the Brothers Grimm (1987), The Brothers Grimm: From Enchanted Forests to the Modern World (1988), Beauties, Beasts, and Enchantment: Classic French Fairy Tales (1989), Spells of Enchantment: The Fairy Tales of Western Culture (1991), and The Fairy Tales of Hermann Hess (1995).

Non‐contributing Editors

Richard Leppert, Professor of Cultural Studies and Comparative Literature at the University of Minnesota, is the author of The Sight and Sound: Music, Representation, and the History of the Body (1993) and Art and the Committed Eye (1999).

Catherine Velay‐Vallantin (CV‐V), is Maître de Conférence at the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales in Paris, France. She is the author of L'Histoire des contes (1992).

Contributing Editors

Gillian Avery, is a historian of children's literature, whose books include Childhood's Pattern (1975) and Behold the Child: American Children and their Books 1621–1922 (1994).

Cristina Bacchilega, is Professor of English at the University of Hawai'i at Manoa, and author of Postmodern Fairy Tales: Gender and Narrative Strategies (1997).

Jeannine Blackwell, is Professor of German and Women's Studies at the University of Kentucky, and co‐editor of the anthology Bitter Healing: German Women Writers 1700–1840 (1990).

Ruth B. Bottigheimer, Adjunct Professor of Comparative Literature at the State University of New York at Stony Brook, is the editor of Fairy Tales and Society (1986) and the author of Grimms' Bad Girls and Bold Boys (1987).

Nancy Canepa, Associate Professor of French and Italian at Dartmouth College, is the editor of Out of the Woods: The Origins of the Literary Fairy Tale in Italy and France (1997) and author of From Court to Forest: Giambattista Basile's ‘Lo cunto de li cunti’ and the Birth of the Literary Fairy Tale (1999).

Professor Klaus Doderer, is the founder and former director of the Institut für Jugendbuchforschung at the Johann‐Wolfgang‐Goethe‐Universität in Frankfurt am Main. He has published numerous books and essays on topics dealing with children's literature and fairy tales.

Harriet Goldberg Professor of Spanish at Villanova University, is the author of Motif‐Index of Medieval Spanish Folk Narratives (1998).

Donald Haase, Professor of German Studies at Wayne State University, is the editor of The Reception of Grimms' Fairy Tales: Responses, Reactions, Revisions (1993).

Niels Ingwersen, Professor of Scandinavian Studies at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, is director of the Folklore Program, and has published on narrative folklore.

Alison Lurie, Professor of Folklore and Children's Literature at Cornell University, is the author of Don't Tell the Grownups (1990) and three collections of folk tales for children.

Maria Nikolajeva, Associate Professor in the Departments of Comparative Literature at Stockholm University, Sweden, and at the Academy University, Finland, is the author of The Magic Code: The Use of Magical Patterns in Fantasy for Children (1988) and Children's Literature Comes of Age: Toward a New Aesthetics (1996).

Lewis C. Seifert, Associate Professor of French Studies at Brown University, is the author of Fairy Tales, Sexuality, and Gender in France, 1690–1715 (1996).

Maria Tatar, Professor of German at Harvard University, is the author of The Hard Facts of the Grimms' Fairy Tales (1987) and Off with their Heads! Fairy Tales and the Culture of Childhood (1992).

Jack Zipes, General Editor.

Contributors

Stephen Benson, Ph.D. from Queen Mary and Westfield College, University of London, has published on contemporary literature and the folk tale.

George R. Bodmer, Professor of English at Indiana University Northwest, has published on illustration and the American picture book.

David J. Buch, Professor of Music History at the University of Northern Iowa, has written Magic Flutes and Enchanted Forests: Music and the Marvelous in the Eighteenth‐Century Theatre (forthcoming).

H. Nichols B. Clark, an art historian specializing in 19th‐century American painting and sculpture, is currently Chair of Education at the High Museum in Atlanta, Georgia.

William Crisman, Associate Professor of English, Comparative Literature, and German at Pennsylvania State University at Altoona, is the author of The Crises of ‘Language and Dead Signs’ in Ludwig Tieck's Prose Fiction (1997).

Giuseppe Di Scipio, Professor of Italian at City University of New York/Hunter College, is the author of works on Dante and editor of Telling Tales: Medieval Narratives and the Folk Tradition (1998).

Anne Duggan, Assistant Professor of French at Wayne State University in Detroit, has published on early modern French women writers.

Robert Dunbar, lecturer in English at the Church of Ireland College of Education, Dublin, is editor of the anthologies First Times (1997) and Enchanted Journeys (1997).

Mary Louise Ennis, Professor of French Literature at Wesleyan University in Connecticut, has published on gardens, clandestine literature, and fairy tales.

Geoffrey Fenwick, author of Teaching Children's Literature in the Primary School (1990), specializes in reading studies and children's literature at the Department of Education and Community Studies at John Moores University, Liverpool.

Carolina Fernandez, Assistant Professor at the University of Oviedo, Spain, is the author of Las nuevas hijas de Eva: re/escrituras feministas del cuento de ‘Barabazul’ (1997) and Las re/escrituras contemporáneas de ‘Cenicienta’ (1997).

Richard Flynn, Associate Professor of English at Georgia Southern University, is the author of Randall Jarrell and the Lost World of Childhood (1990).

Philip Furia, Chair, Department of English at the University of North Carolina at Wilmington, is the author of The Poets of Tin Pan Alley: A History of America's Great Lyricists (1990).

Joan G. Haahr, Professor of English at Yeshiva University, has published on the medieval amatory tradition, medieval historiography, and Chaucer's poetry.

Elizabeth Wanning Harries, Professor of English and Comparative Literature at Smith College, is the author of The Unfinished Manner: Essays on the Fragment in the Later Eighteenth Century (1994).

Betsy Hearne teaches in the Graduate School of Library and Information Science at the University of Illinois, Urbana‐Champaign, and is the author of Beauty and the Beast: Visions and Revisions of an Old Tale (1989).

Tom Higgins, currently in his fourth season as Associate Conductor of the Kingston Orpheus Society, has appeared with the London Symphony, the London Philharmonic, the BBC Symphony, and the BBC Scottish Symphony orchestras.

Thomas S. Hischak, Professor of Theatre at the State University of New York College at Cortland, is the author of Word Crazy: Broadway Lyricists from Cohan to Sondheim (1991) and Stage it with Music: An Encyclopedic Guide to the American Musical Theatre (1993).

Thomas H. Hoernigk teaches German literature and history in Berlin and writes regularly on music for German publications.

Karen Nelson Hoyle, Professor and curator of the Children's Literature Research Collections at the University of Minnesota Libraries, is the author of Wanda Gág (1994).

Shawn Jarvis, Professor of German at St Cloud State University, Minnesota, is the editor of two critical editions of fairy tales by Gisela von Arnim.

Bettina Kümmerling‐Meibauer, lecturer in German at the University of Tübingen, Germany, is the editor of Current Trends in Comparative Children's Literature Research (1995) and Klassiker der Kinder‐ und Jugendliteratur (1998).

Ann Lawson Lucas, Lecturer in Italian at the University of Hull, is the translator and editor of The Adventures of Pinocchio (1996).

Claire‐Lise Malarte‐Feldman, Associate Professor of French at the University of New Hampshire in Durham, is the author of Charles Perrault's Critique since 1960: An Annotated Bibliography (1989).

Ulrich Marzolph, Professor of Islamic Studies at the University of Göttingen and senior member of the editorial committee of the Enzyklopädie des Märchens, is the author of Arabia ridens (1992), and editor of Grimms Märchen International (1995).

Robyn McCallum teaches children's literature at Macquarie University, Australia and is the author of Ideologies of Identity in Adolescent Fiction and co‐author of Retelling Stories, Framing Culture: Traditional Story and Metanarratives in Children's Literature (1998).

James M. McGlathery, Professor of German and Comparative Literature at the University of Illinois at Urbana‐Champaign, is the author of books on the Grimms' fairy tales, E. T. A. Hoffmann, Richard Wagner, and Heinrich von Kleist.

Cheryl McMillan, Ph.D. candidate at Macquarie University, is currently researching postmodernism in young adult fiction.

Eva‐Maria Metcalf, Assistant Professor of German at the University of Mississippi, is the author of Astrid Lindgren (1995).

Wolfgang Mieder, Professor of German and Folklore in the Department of German and Russian at the University of Vermont, is the author of Grimms Märchen‐‐‐modern: Prosa, Gedichte, Karikaturen (1979) and Tradition and Innovation in Folk Literature (1987).

Anne‐Marie Moscatelli, Associate Professor of French at West Chester University, Pennsylvania, works on Rabelais, Francophone literature, and comparative studies on French and Italian fairy tales.

Judith S. Neaman, Professor of English at Yeshiva University, has written numerous articles on medieval optics, art, and literature.

Peter F. Neumeyer has taught at universities in Europe and the United States and is a regular children's book reviewer for the Boston Globe.

Patricia Anne Odber de Baubeta is a Senior Lecturer and Director of Portuguese Studies at the University of Birmingham, and has published on medieval Portuguese literature.

Maria Nicolai Paynter, Professor of Italian at City University of New York/Hunter College, received the Ignazio Silone International Prize for her dissertation, ‘Symbolism and Irony in Silone's Narrative Works’.

Suzanne Rahn, Associate Professor in the English Department at Pacific Lutheran University, is the author of Rediscoveries in Children's Literature (1995) and The Wizard of Oz: Shaping an Imaginary World (1998).

Amy Ransom, Professor of French at the University of Montevallo, is the author of The Feminine as Fantastic in the Conte fantastique: Visions of the Other (1995).

Amelia A. Rutledge, Associate Professor of English at George Mason University, has published on science fiction, Merlin, Italo Calvino, and Richard Wagner.

Sharon Scapple, Ph.D. in Children's and Adolescent Literature from the University of Minnesota, is a faculty member at the University of Minnesota and Metropolitan State University.

Caroline Schatke has studied English and German Literature at the University of Hanover, Germany, and Corpus Christi College, Oxford, specializing in fairy tales, children's literature, and the Gothic novel.

Richard A. Schindler, Associate Professor of Art at Allegheny College in Meadville, Pennsylvania, has published on Joseph Noel Paton and Victorian fairy painting, and is himself an illustrator of fantasy and science fiction.

Karen Seago, Senior Lecturer in German Language and Literature at the University of North London, has published on the reception of the Grimms' fairy tales in English translation and on Angela Carter.

Carole Silver, Professor of English at Stern College, Yeshiva University, is the author of Strange and Secret Peoples: Fairies and Victorian Consciousness (1998).

Anita Silvey, editor of Children's Books and their Creators, is Vice‐President and Publisher, Children's Books, at Houghton Mifflin.

Louisa Smith, Professor of English at Mankato State University, is currently co‐editor of The Lion and the Unicorn.

P. G. Stanwood, Professor of English at the University of British Columbia, is co‐editor of The Selected Prose of Christina Rossetti (1998) and the author of essays on 17th‐ and 20th‐century opera.

Terry Staples is a freelance teacher and cinema researcher, author of All Pals Together: The Story of Children's Cinema (1997) and Film in Victorian Britain (1998).

Mary Beth Stein, Assistant Professor of German at George Washington University in Washington, DC, is currently working on an edited volume on teaching the fairy tale.

John Stephens, Associate Professor of English at Macquarie University, Australia, is the author of Language and Ideology in Children's Fiction (1992) and co‐author of Retelling Stories, Framing Culture: Traditional Story and Metanarratives in Children's Literature (1998).

Jan Susina, Associate Professor of English specializing in children's and adolescent literature at Illinois State University, is a book editor for The Lion and the Unicorn.

D. Maureen Thum, Professor of English at the University of Michigan‐Flint, has published on Wilhelm Hauff, the Brothers Grimm, and folkloric motifs in literature.

Terri Windling, editor of seven anthologies of contemporary fiction based on fairy tales, has published two fairy‐tale inspired novels, The Wood Wife (1996) and The Moon Wife (1999).

Ian Wojcik‐Andrews, Professor of English at Eastern Michigan University, has written extensively on film and children's literature.

Naomi J. Wood, Associate Professor of English at Kansas State University, has published on Disney's Cinderella and on 19th‐century literary fairy tales by George MacDonald, Charles Kingsley, and Lucy Clifford.

Adrienne E. Zuerner, Assistant Professor of French at Skidmore College in New York, has published on Corneille, Mme d'Aulnoy, and Mme de Villedieu.