Reading Time: 3 minutes Ah, summertime, when academics everywhere finally get to work on our research. Mine, I realize, is focused on queer identities in fairy tales, since that’s the most exciting thing to me right now.
fairy tales
Posted inCulture
Folklore and disability: Insight into identity and power
Reading Time: 7 minutes Folklore and disability interact in many ways, some upholding norms & some challenging them, but I would argue that understanding representations of disability in folklore can yield many insights into identity and power.
Posted inBooks
My personal science fiction/fantasy canon: ‘Weirdo Feminist’
Reading Time: 4 minutes The spring semester is over but my brain is still melted from it and the rest of me is burnt out too, so here’s a fun little personal essay I’d submitted elsewhere and that had been rejected (yes, that happens to even the great Dr. Jorgensen). Ruminations on identity and SFF (science fiction/fantasy) follow.
Posted inEducation, General, Myth & Folklore
What I’ve Been Up to in the Folklore World
Reading Time: 5 minutes A lot of academic work is invisible and goes unrewarded…well, somehow a bunch of rewards just dropped into my lap all at once, so I thought I’d share them here (since my blog varies in its folklore content but that’s kinda my main profession, at least for now!).
Posted inEducation, General, Myth & Folklore
Meme This Class
Reading Time: 4 minutes What do you do when you’re teaching a year-long course, First Year Seminar, and pick up some new students in the spring semester? Have students make memes to explain the previous semester!
Posted inGeneral, Myth & Folklore
My Writing Will Appear Soon at Wyrd & Wyse
Reading Time: 2 minutes Somehow in this crazy-busy semester I’ve kept up with creative writing, which is leading to a very cool publication credit at the witchy-leaning zine Wyrd & Wyse.
Posted inGeneral, Myth & Folklore
#FolkloreThursday: Exploring Tale Type 510B
Reading Time: 7 minutes If you start researching a particular fairy tale, what does that research trajectory look like? Here’s an example (with incest)!
Posted inEducation, General, Myth & Folklore
Reflections on Academic Community
Reading Time: 3 minutes I have felt very isolated due to 5 years spent adjuncting. Being at this conference, it somehow feels like everything has changed.
Posted inGeneral, Myth & Folklore
Why The Translation You Read of a Fairy-Tale Collection Matters
Reading Time: 3 minutes Part of the fun of being a fairy-tale scholar is revealing particularly gory versions of beloved tales to people. Here, I take a different tack.
Posted inGeneral, Myth & Folklore, Sex & Gender
Masculinity and Sexuality in Contemporary American Fairy Tales
Reading Time: 2 minutes One of my side projects involves looking at masculinity in contemporary North American fairy-tale retellings. One more fun way to fight the patriarchy, eh?