The Secret Power of Snow White
July 23, 2019
Sara shares her life-long love-hate relationship with Snow White and explains how this “passive” princess became her hero.
Read MoreWhat is Folklore?
July 16, 2019
In which we dive into the hardest question of our field… what even IS folklore anyway??
Read More5 Reasons to Study (Greek) Myth
May 17, 2018
Okay guys, so as you have probably heard, our next class, coming up in July, is MYTH AND MYTHIC ADAPTATION – yay! It is focused on Greek Mythology plus the…
Read MoreWhy We Love Witches
September 29, 2017
We’re not going to lie, we are shamelessly excited about the “Witches in Folklore and Literature” course that starts in just TWO days – we’ve been planning, organizing, discussing, and…
Read MoreScary Fairies, Sexy Vampires, and Techno-Ghosts: Or, 5 Reasons Fairy-Tale Scholars Study Legends Too
June 8, 2017
Most of you are here because you love fairy tales and think of us as fairy-tale scholars. While that is absolutely our primary area of scholarly interest, we wear a…
Read MoreFairy Tales Abroad!
May 24, 2017
One of our co-founders, Sara Cleto, has recently returned from two weeks in Germany, a country with a rich folkloric history. We’d like to share some of her fairy-tale highlights…
Read More10 Reasons to Study Folklore
May 21, 2017
As we were preparing for our next long course on legends, we went off on a tangent about why we LOVE studying and teaching this stuff so much. We thought…
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