Abandoning Perfectionism
June 18, 2024
Did you know that we’re (recovering? ish?) perfectionists? Honestly, we’re not sure anyone could get through (or even WANT to get through) graduate school if they don’t have at least…
Read MoreFREE Lecture on Unmarried Women in Fairy Tales!
November 21, 2023
We’ll cut to the chase. We have a brand new free talk up on YouTube right now, and you can watch it RIGHT HERE! Our super fabulous Patron, Stacy Shirk,…
Read MoreA Fairy-Tale Oracle? Um, YES!
September 26, 2023
A fairy-tale oracle to start your morning: Tatterhood – Tatterhood smashes every possible expectation for how a princess should behave, and consequently she saves her sister from kidnapping and wins…
Read MoreNorm and Transgression Fairy-Tale Conference Recap
June 13, 2023
As many of you know, last week we went to the Norm and Transgression in the Fairy-Tale Tradition: (Non)Normative Identities, Forms, and Writings conference at Brown University in Rhode Island……
Read MoreThe Fairy-Tale Language
May 23, 2023
The older we get and the longer we spend reading, studying, and generally obsessing about fairy tales, the more we understand that fairy tales are a language for saying anything….
Read MoreDracula: A Love Letter to Letters
May 2, 2023
Here’s something that a lot of people forget about Bram Stoker’s Dracula – it’s an epistolary novel, a.k.a. a novel made up of letters and other kinds of writing (like…
Read MoreIt’s a Conspiracy!
April 18, 2023
There are a bunch of people out there that love to claim that Shakespeare didn’t write his plays. More specifically, some people argue that he couldn’t possibly have done it. …
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