Fairy Tales Explored

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...

Today, we share a response by author and computer engineer Derek T. Jones to a selection of Max Lüthi's work that is included in Maria...

Every other year, the International Board on Books for Young People (IBBY) honors an author and an illustrator with the Hans Christian...

In “The Importance of Being Scared: Polish Nobel Laureate Wisława Szymborska on Fairy Tales and the Necessity of Fear,” writer Maria...

In August, 1896, a literary fairy tale called “The Princess Baladina—Her Adventure” by Charles Douglass appeared In The Home Monthly...

As Marilyn Berg Callander writes in Willa Cather and the Fairy Tale, “Cather’s imaginings were shaped by myth: her childhood reading was...