Fairy Tales Explored

In July 2023, I visited the town of Borås, Sweden and was surprised to learn about this sculpture. I had never heard of it before and...

Today we share a post by Arya Nasikkar who was a student in our Spring 2023 Introduction to the Fairy Tale course. Hello! My name is Arya...

Daniel A. Rabuzzi (he / his) has had two novels, five short stories, 25 poems, and nearly 50 essays / articles published. He lived eight...

Today we share the second of a two-part post by Danielle Sahm, who was a student in our Fall 2022 Introduction to the Fairy Tale course....

Today we share the first of a two-part post by Danielle Sahm, who was a student in our Fall 2022 Introduction to the Fairy Tale course....

Today we share a post by David Turshyan, who was a student in our Summer 2022 Introduction to the Fairy Tale course. Once, I saw a tiny...

Today we share a post by a student in our Spring 2022 Introduction to the Fairy Tale course. Hello, I am Stephen Wolfe, a recent graduate...

Last week, Paula Rego died at 87, and her career ended only then. Her art is disturbing and vigorous, realistic and inspired by fairy...

Today we share a post by a student in our Spring 2022 Introduction to the Fairy Tale course. Sabrina Wichner received her bachelor's...

Today we share a post by a student in our Fall 2021 Introduction to the Fairy Tale course. My name is Jennifer Lorene Ritenour, and I’m a...

Today we share a post by a student in our Fall 2021 Introduction to the Fairy Tale course. My name is Hayden Fuchino, and I am an English...

These days, we assume that all the early Disney films were sexist because the princesses lacked agency and needed to be rescued. However,...

Delayed due to the pandemic, Andrew Lloyd Webber’s musical Cinderella finally had its long-awaited premiere on August 18, 2021 at the...

In June 2021, an enchanting new museum centered on Hans Christian Andersen opened in his hometown of Odense, Denmark. The museum—called...

Today we share a post by a student in our Spring 2020 Introduction to the Fairy Tale course. My name is Meagan Harmon and I’m currently a...

In recognition of “every child’s right to great stories,” the Swedish government created the Astrid Lindgren Memorial Award to honor a...

The troubles and distractions of 2020 kept us from a timely announcement of the publication of The Palgrave Handbook of Magical Realism...

Today, we share a post by a student in our Fall 2020 Introduction to the Fairy Tale course. My name is Evelyn Alva Hidalgo. I have a B.A....

Fairy-tale writer and scholar Kate Bernheimer always inspires. She wrote the modern fairy tale collections Horse, Flower, Bird and How a...

In 1997, Brandy starred as Cinderella in a remake of the 1957 Rodgers and Hammerstein musical co-produced by Whitney Houston, who also...