Lectures

This year, we weren't quite ready to leave the Gothic behind after we finished up our Gothic Realms course... winter is just the perfect time for ghost stories, and -...

Everyone thinks they know what a fairy tale is. There are castles, a prince or two, maybe a curse to break or a talking cat to befriend. But what is...

You might have heard something like this: "I don't want my daughter reading fairy tales!" or "Fairy tales are so sexist. All these girls needing a prince to save them!"...

Whether they’re called fairy tales or something else, fantastical stories are found the world over. Like their Western fairy tale counterpart, Japan’s fantastical stories—otogi-banashi—are part of the body of stories...

Fairy tales have a reputation for being conventional, and many of the most famous fairy tales appear, on the surface at least, to be just that. Tales like Cinderella and...

The Cambridge Research Network for Fairy-Tale Studies is pleased to invite you to an online lecture by award-winning folklorists, teachers, and writers Dr. Sara Cleto and Dr. Brittany Warman. The...

“I don’t want my daughter reading fairy tales!” “Fairy tales are so sexist. All these girls need a prince to save them!” The truth is that the politics of gender...