HASTAC Commons | Anne Duggan | Group Activity https://hastac.hcommons.org/members/ag7230/activity/groups/ Public group activity feed of which Anne Duggan is a member. Sat, 04 Apr 2026 10:25:33 +0000 https://buddypress.org/?v=10.6.0 en-US 30 hourly 2 e434e8fb37710f6db8f35e4596214da0 Christine A. Jones started the topic Fairy Tale Event at the Chichester Center: April 21 in the forum GS Folklore, Myth, and Fairy Tale https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/folklore-myth-and-fairy-tale/forum/topic/fairy-tale-event-at-the-chichester-center-april-21/ Thu, 19 Mar 2026 14:12:57 +0000 Appropriated Tales: Race and the Disney Fairy-Tale Mode

Michelle Anya Anjirbag

Anjirbag examines Disney’s storytelling practices to reveal how the corporation has influenced public understanding of what fairy tales are – and who is allowed to appear within them. From the 1989 animated The Little Mermaid to the 2023 live-action remake sta…[Read more]

]]> 0 9dec1b8182a28b2722b0b4e32ccb21c5 Abigail Heiniger started the topic “We the People”: Telling the Story of the US 250th Special Issue CFP in the forum GS Folklore, Myth, and Fairy Tale https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/folklore-myth-and-fairy-tale/forum/topic/we-the-people-telling-the-story-of-the-us-250th-special-issue-cfp/ Tue, 03 Mar 2026 22:33:11 +0000 “We the People”: Telling the Story of the US 250th in Fairy Tales, Folklore, and Myth

Humanities Special Issue

SUBMISSION LINK: https://www.mdpi.com/journal/humanities/special_issues/OEHU7S891S

Due June 2026

CALL FOR PAPERS:

The Modern Language Association (MLA) Executive Committee for Folklore, Myth, and Fairy Tales is interested in cre…[Read more]

]]> 0 15a8ba10e9b743106a67206f239b250e Christine A. Jones started the topic MLA 2027 CFP: Emancipatory Transfiguration in the forum GS Folklore, Myth, and Fairy Tale https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/folklore-myth-and-fairy-tale/forum/topic/mla-2027-cfp-emancipatory-transfiguration/ Tue, 03 Mar 2026 17:58:49 +0000 The Guaranteed Session for 2027 of the GS Folklore, Myth, and Fairy Tales Forum takes up the Presidential theme of emancipatory narrative through transfiguration:

Title: Emancipatory Transfiguration
Call for Papers #33753

From ecological degeneration to generative AI, striking change abounds and demands response. We invite papers on myths and…[Read more]

]]> 0 80810ad7dc92f8c95b68a98350bc892e Christine A. Jones started the topic Talks in March and April at the Chichester Centre! in the forum GS Folklore, Myth, and Fairy Tale https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/folklore-myth-and-fairy-tale/forum/topic/talks-in-march-and-april-at-the-chichester-centre/ Thu, 26 Feb 2026 14:50:46 +0000 Tuesday 17 March, 5:30-6:30 p.m. UTC, online (Teams)

Tales for Fairies: Tracing Queer Fairy‑Tale Retellings

Alba Morollón Díaz-Faes

Explore the evolution of queer reinterpretations of the fairy tale across three transformative decades: the first wave of fairy-tale publications for a predominantly gay male readership in the 1990s; a second wav…[Read more]

]]> 0 fa54fb4b89259857f2c169bc42a0a7cc Abigail Heiniger started the topic International Society for Folk Narrative Research Event in the forum GS Folklore, Myth, and Fairy Tale https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/folklore-myth-and-fairy-tale/forum/topic/international-society-for-folk-narrative-research-event/ Tue, 17 Feb 2026 12:37:42 +0000 This ISFNR Event is open to anyone:

This is a kind reminder that tomorrow, February 18, at 5 p.m. CET, we will present the 19th lecture in the series, given by Lewis Seifert, professor of French and Francophone Studies at Brown University (Providence, RI, USA). The lecture is entitled “(Post-) Colonial Folklore Collections as Transcultural T…[Read more]

]]> 0 52f3a738a984f0ff19380d0801f9e1d2 Abigail Heiniger started the topic Calling on our members to represent this forum on the Delegate Assembly! in the forum GS Folklore, Myth, and Fairy Tale https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/folklore-myth-and-fairy-tale/forum/topic/calling-on-our-members-to-represent-this-forum-on-the-delegate-assembly/ Sun, 25 Jan 2026 01:52:31 +0000 If you have a vested interest in the presence of folktale and fairy tale at the MLA, the Executive Committee invites you to self-nominate for the role of Delegate to represent the Folklore, Myth, and Fairy Tale Forum on the Delegate Assembly. This call is open to faculty and graduate students.

Delegates play a crucial role in association…[Read more]

]]> 0 4bd54f9a6961a81126511d57079920c6 Abigail Heiniger started the topic International Conference for the Fantastic in the Arts Call for Papers in the forum GS Folklore, Myth, and Fairy Tale https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/folklore-myth-and-fairy-tale/forum/topic/international-conference-for-the-fantastic-in-the-arts-call-for-papers/ Wed, 22 Oct 2025 00:10:13 +0000 (Meta)Cognition
The 47th International Conference on the Fantastic in the Arts (ICFA 47)
March 18–21, 2026 | Marriott Orlando Airport Lakeside | Orlando, Florida
Guests of Honor: Ted Chiang and Ann Leckie
Guest Scholar: Sherryl Vint
Register Here

Call for Proposals
Submission deadline: Friday, October 31, 2025 [Submit Here]
If cognition is the p…[Read more]

]]> 0 b302942b077fcb316d6e29952c2030d2 Christine A. Jones started the topic ISFNR, Reykjavík 2026: Nature(s) in Narratives Call for Papers in the forum GS Folklore, Myth, and Fairy Tale https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/folklore-myth-and-fairy-tale/forum/topic/isfnr-reykjavik-2026-natures-in-narratives-call-for-papers/ Thu, 11 Sep 2025 14:15:23 +0000 The ISFNR Interim conference in 2026 will be held in Reykjavík Iceland, June 13th to 16th. The conference will take place at the main campus of the University of Iceland, a walking distance from the vibrant city centre of Reykjavík. With nearly 24 hours of daylight, and plenty of geothermal pools to soak in, it’s the perfect place to recharge on…[Read more]

]]> 0 deb335d49db218b143c2394a572b0f71 Ruchika Jain started the topic Call for Applications–SRF–“Myths and Morality" Project, India in the forum GS Folklore, Myth, and Fairy Tale https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/folklore-myth-and-fairy-tale/forum/topic/call-for-applications-srf-myths-and-morality-project-india/ Tue, 09 Sep 2025 07:47:15 +0000 Thapar Institute of Engineering & Technology (TIET), ACT Centre, and the Thapar School of Liberal Arts and Sciences (TSLAS), Patiala, India, invite applications for two Senior Research Fellows (SRFs) on the project “Myths and Morality.” The interdisciplinary project explores the relation between classical Indian myths and moral theories. Myths suc…[Read more]

]]> 0 561bf0c62e3e95c2b5762fa1ac04a9f9 Abigail Heiniger started the topic Reimagining the Witch: Feminist Retellings in Maguire's Fiction - ONLINE EVENT in the forum GS Folklore, Myth, and Fairy Tale https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/folklore-myth-and-fairy-tale/forum/topic/reimagining-the-witch-feminist-retellings-in-maguires-fiction-online-event/ Wed, 18 Jun 2025 19:15:54 +0000 Reimagining the Witch: Feminist Retellings in Gregory Maguire’s Fiction
Two free online events with César F. Más Sánchez

Please note, the times are in GMT (London, UK) and EDT (New York, USA)

Reading Group: Wicked. Thurs 24 July, 6–7 p.m. GMT
2-3pm EDT
A friendly, social reading group focused on key themes in Wicked by Gregory Maguire. Guided…[Read more]

]]> 0 85e49265120ad3e37df59b4369507e6b Christine A. Jones started the topic ISFNR 2026 in Reykjavík, Iceland – Call for Panels in the forum GS Folklore, Myth, and Fairy Tale https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/folklore-myth-and-fairy-tale/forum/topic/isfnr-interim-conference-2026-ireykjavik-iceland-call-for-panels/ Sat, 24 May 2025 17:50:59 +0000 Posting on behalf of ISFNR!

The ISFNR Interim conference in 2026 will be held in Reykjavík Iceland, June 13th to 16th. The guiding theme is Nature(s) in Narrative. The conference will take place at the main campus of the University of Iceland, a walking distance from the vibrant city centre of Reykjavík. It is hosted by the department of F…[Read more]

]]> 0 1dae2563d770f0208a92101be5abb28e Abigail Heiniger started the topic “We the People”: Telling the Story of the US 250th Folk Narratives CFP in the forum GS Folklore, Myth, and Fairy Tale https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/folklore-myth-and-fairy-tale/forum/topic/we-the-people-telling-the-story-of-the-us-250th-folk-narratives-cfp/ Mon, 07 Apr 2025 20:38:45 +0000 Dear Colleagues,

The Modern Language Association (MLA) Executive Committee for Folklore, Myth, and Fairy Tales is interested in creating a Special Issue of Humanities in connection with the guaranteed panel at the 2026 Convention, exploring fairy tales, folklore, mythology, and the 250th anniversary of the US Declaration of Independence: “We t…[Read more]

]]> 0 6783863b49d54f8b5c0447729638d654 Abigail Heiniger started the topic “We the People”: Telling the Story of the US 250th in Folk Narratives in the forum GS Folklore, Myth, and Fairy Tale https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/folklore-myth-and-fairy-tale/forum/topic/we-the-people-telling-the-story-of-the-us-250th-in-folk-narratives/ Sun, 09 Mar 2025 19:35:27 +0000 The Guaranteed Session for GSP: Folklore, Myth, and Fairy Tales for 2026 explores the idea of “we the people” in fairy tales, folklore, and mythology. While foundational documents like the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution tell one story about national identity, diverse storytellers construct the identity of the many in dra…[Read more]

]]> 0 209878fc5a7735343009be6c2be4e038 Abigail Heiniger started the topic JIS Symposium 2025: Lewis and Tolkien: Promise of Christian Fairy Tales in the forum GS Folklore, Myth, and Fairy Tale https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/folklore-myth-and-fairy-tale/forum/topic/jis-symposium-2025-lewis-and-tolkien-promise-of-christian-fairy-tales/ Sun, 09 Mar 2025 19:06:05 +0000 JIS Symposium 2025 on: “C.S. Lewis & J.R.R. Tolkien: The Promise
of Christian Fairytales.” Pasadena, California, USA, 18 October 2025
(online: Zoom). Call for Papers/Registration on JIS web:
https://www.jis3.org/symposium2025. Deadline for 250-word Abstracts:
April 15, 2025, to: info@jis3.org. Following the conference,
fully-developed papers wil…[Read more]

]]> 0 0fbde81ab9354d23fa554a070e0819e5 Abigail Heiniger started the topic New Open Access Collection edited by Cristina Bacchilega and Pauline Greenhill in the forum GS Folklore, Myth, and Fairy Tale https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/folklore-myth-and-fairy-tale/forum/topic/new-open-access-collection-edited-by-cristina-bacchilega-and-pauline-greenhill/ Wed, 05 Mar 2025 21:19:22 +0000 Announcing:
Cristina Bacchilega and Pauline Greenhill’s new edited collection: Justice in 21st Century Fairy Tales and the Power of Wonder. Bloomsbury Academic, 2025.

Free and Open Access:
https://www.bloomsburycollections.com/monograph?docid=b-9781350348295

]]> 0 9be64875f23c71bd76f00c73252e17eb Abigail Heiniger started the topic CFP: Female and Queer Bodies in Speculative Fiction and Visual Culture in the forum GS Folklore, Myth, and Fairy Tale https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/folklore-myth-and-fairy-tale/forum/topic/cfp-female-and-queer-bodies-in-speculative-fiction-and-visual-culture-2/ Sat, 01 Mar 2025 14:17:39 +0000 Hi Everyone!

I’m forwarding this CFP for a collected volume on <i>Female and Queer Bodies in Speculative Fiction and Visual Culture</i> from Dra. María Gil Poisa (she/her/ella), Departamento de Filología Inglesa, Francesa y Alemana, Universidad de Oviedo.

For further inquiries, please contact the editors at gilmaria@uniovi.es and dma…[Read more]

]]> 0 2dc3c3a499762717d386ff726c0d78cc Abigail Heiniger started the topic Nominations for Executive Committee for 2026-2031 term in the forum GS Folklore, Myth, and Fairy Tale https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/folklore-myth-and-fairy-tale/forum/topic/nominations-for-executive-committee-for-2026-2031-term-3/ Tue, 21 Jan 2025 22:21:21 +0000 We are currently seeking nominations for the Executive Committee for a term that will begin in 2026. To ensure representation from across our fields of folklore, mythology, and fairy tales, we encourage you to self-nominate for service on the forum’s executive committee. The committee will vote on its newest member at its February meeting.…[Read more]

]]> 0 ad4c2f8d425206ae158619547bba7ed8 María Herrera-Sobek replied to the topic Nominations for Executive Committee for 2026-2031 term in the forum GS Folklore, Myth, and Fairy Tale via email https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/folklore-myth-and-fairy-tale/forum/topic/nominations-for-executive-committee-for-2026-2031-term/#post-1039384 Mon, 20 Jan 2025 22:55:59 +0000 Dear Abigail,
Thank you for your email inviting me to self nominate for your group
forum. I would love to self nominate and serve on the Executive Committee
for the forum GS Folklore, Myth and Fairy Tale for the term beginning in
2026. Unfortunately, I do not think I am eligible since the guidelines
state you have to wait seven years before…[Read more]

]]> 0 1c83883c12969a693ff45155eb86b37d Leigh A. Neithardt started the topic Membership Suggestions for 2025 Forum Delegate Election  in the forum GS Folklore, Myth, and Fairy Tale https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/folklore-myth-and-fairy-tale/forum/topic/membership-suggestions-for-2025-forum-delegate-election-9/ Thu, 19 Dec 2024 16:58:05 +0000 Hello!

The next election for this forum’s Delegate Assembly representative will be held in the fall of 2025, and the forum’s executive committee will take up the matter of nominations for this election when it meets in January 2025. Though the executive committee is responsible for making nominations, it is required to nominate at least one can…[Read more]

]]> 0 64fd3c4f5366e134edc7235cbd992b6e Fatma Fulya Tepe started the topic new article: Angela Carter’s Adaptations of the Ashputtle Story in the discussion GS Folklore, Myth, and Fairy Tale https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/folklore-myth-and-fairy-tale/forum/topic/new-article-angela-carters-adaptations-of-the-ashputtle-story/ Tue, 05 Dec 2023 18:16:52 +0000 Dear Colleagues,

We recently published an article titled as “Deconstructing a Disempowering Normative Identity: Angela Carter’s Adaptations of the Ashputtle Story” in Interlitteraria journal. We present the information and the abstract of the article below. If you would like to have a copy of it, please click this l…[Read more]

]]> 0 b3971ef8d9d4f4c00065a7dccc105460 Katherine Elkins started the topic CFP: Special Issue on Good and Evil in Fairytales (and folktales) in the discussion GS Folklore, Myth, and Fairy Tale https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/folklore-myth-and-fairy-tale/forum/topic/cfp-special-issue-on-good-and-evil-in-fairytales-and-folktales/ Thu, 01 Jun 2023 16:02:08 +0000 Hello,

I’m guest editing a special issue of humanities and we have room for a few more essays.  The due date for final drafts will be a year from this August in 2024. The CFP is attached.

If you’re interested, please send me a 250-word abstract by August 2023 to elkinsk@kenyon.edu. I’m also happy to answer any questions/inquiries.

We have a g…[Read more]

]]> 0 34510d445dcd4b4e08f14b4d09e1f80f Kate Pond deposited “Sapience” The (Attempted) Making of a Modern Myth: Storybuilding as a Component of Social Justice in the group GS Folklore, Myth, and Fairy Tale https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1719674/ Sat, 12 Dec 2020 02:23:38 +0000 This autoethnographic exploration, describes and reflects upon my attempt to crowdsource a modern myth on the origins of racism in America. It draws on my work in narrative studies with a special focus on stories and their role in human development. Part one is analysis of the ‘functions’ of story as both plot variables and sociological act…[Read more]

]]> 0 748366feac5f322cd79def43b4ce2468 Kate Pond started the topic Contribute to my Research? in the discussion GS Folklore, Myth, and Fairy Tale https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/folklore-myth-and-fairy-tale/forum/topic/contribute-to-my-research/ Wed, 09 Sep 2020 12:50:01 +0000 I’m attempting an interesting project for my master’s thesis, and I need content! Take a look at my survey, and if it strikes something in you, I hope you participate. If it’s not your scene… maybe just share this link with one friend?

Thanks in…[Read more]

]]> 0 9d6eb1ea6ab009aac5d47071619810cd Andrew G. Christensen deposited On Being One's Own Heir: British Portraiture, Metaphysical Inheritance, and The Picture of Dorian Gray in the group GS Folklore, Myth, and Fairy Tale https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1643144/ Mon, 24 Jun 2019 03:48:43 +0000 Much scholarship on The Picture of Dorian Gray has focused on its possible textual sources and its place in literary traditions. This article demonstrates that by contextualizing the novel in the history of art and the tradition of British portraiture, we are able to answer significant yet overlooked questions such as why Wilde chose “picture” rat…[Read more]

]]> 0 d0b456473249e1fa655141676021cb08 Andrew G. Christensen deposited Myth and Mithraism in Hardy’s The Mayor of Casterbridge in the group GS Folklore, Myth, and Fairy Tale https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1637406/ Sun, 07 Apr 2019 03:48:43 +0000 What T. S. Eliot called the “mythic method,” even in its modern form, was not an invention of Modernism. A significant precursor is Thomas Hardy, whose Mayor of Casterbridge has long been appreciated for its mythological structure and wealth of allusion. Here I suggest a new addition to mythological interpretation of the novel: the Greco-Roman dei…[Read more]

]]> 0 250fe0cc8f390540c0d935d1c2ab156d John Laudun started the topic Candidate for Executive Committee in the discussion Folklore and Literature https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/folklore-myth-and-fairy-tale/forum/topic/candidate-for-executive-committee/ Thu, 11 Oct 2018 16:47:42 +0000 Hello, everyone. I am delighted to have been nominated to serve on the GS Folklore, Myth, and Fairy Tale forum executive committee. I am on the faculty of the University of Louisiana at Lafayette where I am the Meriwether Professor of English. Like many others, I have degrees in both English (BA, Louisiana State University; MA, Syracuse University…[Read more]

]]> 0 dc2429e5322de6662950c749774e42eb John Laudun started the topic Candidate for Executive Committee in the discussion Folklore and Literature https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/folklore-myth-and-fairy-tale/forum/topic/candidate-for-executive-committee/ Thu, 11 Oct 2018 16:47:42 +0000 <div class=”bp_group type-bp_group odd bbp-parent-forum-864 bbp-parent-topic-9099 bbp-reply-position-1 user-id-5489 topic-author post-9099 topic type-topic status-publish hentry topic-tag-adaptation-studies topic-tag-digital-humanities topic-tag-fairy-tale topic-tag-folklore-scholarship topic-tag-history-2 topic-tag-indigenous-studies…[Read more]

]]> 0 7016c4dd88c8a32e948867b2e2760af3 Carol Zuses started the topic Membership Suggestions for 2019 Forum Delegate Election in the discussion Folklore and Literature https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/folklore-myth-and-fairy-tale/forum/topic/membership-suggestions-for-2019-forum-delegate-election-8/ Fri, 21 Sep 2018 12:29:33 +0000 The next election for this forum’s Delegate Assembly representative will be held in the fall of 2019, and the forum’s executive committee will take up the matter of nominations for this election when it meets during the January 2019 convention in Chicago. Though the executive committee is responsible for making nominations, it is required to nom…[Read more]

]]> 0 ddee85d785deeb31800d91d1ace9e04c Donald Haase deposited No Laughing Matter: Fairy Tales and the 2016 US Presidential Election in the group GS Folklore, Myth, and Fairy Tale https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1615185/ Fri, 10 Aug 2018 16:28:02 +0000 Weaponizing the fairy tale in the service of political persuasion and propaganda is a popular tactic. In times of conflict, fairy-tale motifs are often adapted for political satire and commentary in a variety of popular media, from poetry and protest songs to caricatures and cartoons. In the 2016 American presidential election–which provided more…[Read more]

]]> 0 18539bfd6d6610bc9b9c15673d614fd3 Gloria Lee McMillan started the topic New Essay: The Rust Belt is Mythical, too! in the discussion Folklore and Literature https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/folklore-myth-and-fairy-tale/forum/topic/new-essay-the-rust-belt-is-mythical-too-3/ Tue, 08 May 2018 14:41:16 +0000 The Rust Belt is Mythical, too! is a rhetorical analysis of the media-generated rhetorical trope “The Rust Belt.” Why are few if any writers of fiction being published who deal with this large region?  What is the effect of being called “The Rust Belt” upon creativity and cognitive development and/or writing anxiety?

]]> 0 82ba6f33442c139c9a52cf19e5100073 Laurie Ringer deposited Cigar Box Fiddle 3: Assembled in the group GS Folklore, Myth, and Fairy Tale https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1604668/ Wed, 28 Mar 2018 04:23:42 +0000 Assembled cigar box fiddle. Fiddlin’ John Hutchison learned to play on a fiddle made from an Old Virginia Cheroots Tobacco box. In a taped interview he calls it a “cigar box.”

]]> 0 a02e33aa6773a3899b2f6470142eaed8 Laurie Ringer deposited Cigar Box Fiddle 2: Disassembled in the group GS Folklore, Myth, and Fairy Tale https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1604663/ Wed, 28 Mar 2018 04:12:25 +0000 The label is under the soundboard. Fiddlin’ John Hutchison learned to play on a fiddle made from an Old Virginia Cheroots Tobacco box. In a taped interview he calls it a “cigar box.”

]]> 0 f9319333df9483436c26431824fdb9f7 Laurie Ringer deposited Cigar Box Fiddle 1: Disassembled in the group GS Folklore, Myth, and Fairy Tale https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1604650/ Wed, 28 Mar 2018 03:48:43 +0000 Fiddlin’ John Hutchison learned to play on a fiddle made from an Old Virginia Cheroots Tobacco box. In a taped interview he calls it a “cigar box.”

]]> 0 93e5c487592bff0302de445a2d7f0079 Adewale Bankole Ajayi deposited Ritualization as pragmatic deployment of revolutionary consciousness in the drama of Femi Osofisan in the group GS Folklore, Myth, and Fairy Tale https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1594094/ Mon, 01 Jan 2018 05:42:16 +0000 Early works of dramatic criticism seeking to draw parallels between ritual and drama in Africa concentrated on examining the dramatic characteristics of ritual to see how drama evolved from ritual. However, a closer application of the theories of Girard, Schechner, Smith, Hubert Mauss and Turner reveal new perspectives on the interaction between…[Read more]

]]> 0 27a5b1fa95768267f3a78165ddbb8492 Donald Haase deposited "We Are What We Are Supposed to Be": The Brothers Grimm as Fictional Representations in the group GS Folklore, Myth, and Fairy Tale https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1573429/ Wed, 07 Jun 2017 01:02:41 +0000 This article examines how the Brothers Grimm are fictionalized in German and Anglo-American media. While some representations revere and romanticize the iconic brothers for preserving the fairy-tale tradition, other depictions challenge the conventional understanding of their work and cultural contribution. In these demythologizing depictions, the…[Read more]

]]> 0 4859f05b80bcc183a18a13ba442da661 Donald Haase deposited Yours, Mine, or Ours? Perrault, the Brothers Grimm, and the Ownership of Fairy Tales in the group GS Folklore, Myth, and Fairy Tale https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1573311/ Tue, 06 Jun 2017 01:20:39 +0000 Fairy tales are often described in proprietary terms. Because the myth of their origin among the anonymous folk is so strong, the general tendency in both popular and scholarly discourse is to conceive of fairy tales as either the common property of all humanity or the treasures of specific cultures, nations, or ethnic groups. Since the…[Read more]

]]> 0 6317f0368880bbc3200e9bf484b321da Donald Haase deposited Kiss and Tell: Orality, Narrative, and the Power of Words in "Sleeping Beauty" in the group GS Folklore, Myth, and Fairy Tale https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1572820/ Thu, 01 Jun 2017 20:14:17 +0000 Scholarship on the Sleeping Beauty tale has gone largely unappreciated. Underlying the story’s obvious themes and motifs—birth, death/sleep, rebirth—and complicating its gender dynamic is a preoccupation with orality and telling that gives the story a significant self-reflective dimension. This article examines how the tale reflects on story…[Read more]

]]> 0 3efa96bef0d0adaeaa3ed9851b05a567 Donald Paul Haase deposited Children, War, and the Imaginative Space of Fairy Tales in the group GS Folklore, Myth, and Fairy Tale https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1572385/ Wed, 31 May 2017 01:01:48 +0000 Explores how children of war and adults reflecting on their violent wartime childhoods have had recourse to the space of fairy tales to interpret their traumatic physical environments and their emotional lives within them. To that end, the article (1) considers the nature of time and space in the classic fairy tale; (2) establishes how the…[Read more]

]]> 0 c68cfc3375621ba68efc614390376831 Donald Paul Haase deposited The Sleeping Script: Memory and Forgetting in Grimms' Romantic Fairy Tale (KHM 50) in the group GS Folklore, Myth, and Fairy Tale https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1571829/ Sun, 28 May 2017 01:25:46 +0000 The Grimms’ tale of “Brier Rose” (KHM 50) has self-reflexive characteristics of the Romantic literary fairy tale. In thematizing memory and alluding to the imagery used in the preface to the Grimm brothers’ collection of fairy tales, Wilhelm Grimm’s version of the story self-consciously reflects on its own origins and exhibits a self-awareness…[Read more]

]]> 0 a0dd83aeb8ffd5bc7fade0a0299e26c2 Donald Paul Haase deposited Decolonizing Fairy-Tale Studies in the group GS Folklore, Myth, and Fairy Tale https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1571827/ Sun, 28 May 2017 01:19:43 +0000 This article focuses initially on a new strand of empirical research that deliberately utilizes folktales and fairy tales to make broader claims for the scientific method and to advocate for the application of evolutionary science to literature in general. After critiquing this work for is its unquestioning reliance on the problematic…[Read more]

]]> 0 eb8789b9ee53837f7db23f0af0cc9ad5 Donald Paul Haase deposited Is Seeing Believing? Proverbs and the Film Adaptation of a Fairy Tale in the group GS Folklore, Myth, and Fairy Tale https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1571826/ Sun, 28 May 2017 01:16:37 +0000 A study of the use of proverbs in the film The Company of Wolves (dir. Neil Jordan; screenplay by Jordan and Angela Carter), based on Angela Carter’s adaptation of Little Red Riding Hood tales in her book The Bloody Chamber.

]]> 0 b9c673ac3e6ede94ce5c3d77c3758f6a Karl Steel deposited Logsex in Hell: What a Body Can't Do in the group GS Folklore, Myth, and Fairy Tale https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/552705/ Wed, 26 Oct 2016 12:30:19 +0000 My paper concerns two radically distinct portrayals of genital injury. The first examples, drawn from legal and doctrinal narrative, describe the cultural norm of meaningful castration. The other, which provides my paper with its title, is from Peter of Cornwall’s Book of Revelations. This set of one is an analogous injury that may mean nothing: n…[Read more]

]]> 0 332a6163cfa85569ab6e0d83cd316f34 Gloria Lee McMillan started the topic New Rust Belt Literature Group at the Commmons (Folklore, too!) in the discussion Folklore and Literature https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/folklore-myth-and-fairy-tale/forum/topic/new-rust-belt-literature-group-at-the-commmons-folklore-too/ Fri, 09 Sep 2016 20:52:13 +0000 Ever since Indiana University Folklore professor Richard M. Dorson (1975) surveyed NW Indiana to see if industrial workers had their own folklore (they did) we have been part of your area.  His Land of the Mill Rats  (Harvard UP) is a landmark folklore study.
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Rust Belt Literature
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]]> 0 fc4b7497a235f5212875b09ae6fb3186 Jill Terry Rudy started the topic Forum Executive Committee Nomination, Jill Terry Rudy in the discussion Folklore and Literature https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/folklore-myth-and-fairy-tale/forum/topic/forum-executive-committee-nomination-jill-terry-rudy/ Tue, 20 Oct 2015 18:05:48 +0000 I have been nominated to serve on the GS Folklore, Myth, and Fairy Tale forum executive committee. In 1997, I received my PhD in Folklore from Indiana University, Bloomington, and I am an Associate Professor of English at Brigham Young University (BYU). I co-direct a digital humanities project which includes graphs, visualizations, and a…[Read more]

]]> 0 d97cbfac5ec1d4544b5c7bd527eee975 Chris Zarate deposited Recovery and Reconfigurations of New Mexico's Oral Tradition in Ana Castillo's So Far from God in the group Folklore and Literature https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/187711/ Fri, 12 Jun 2015 14:13:57 +0000 This paper traces the origins of Chicana-centered figures and tropes found in Ana Castillo’s So Far from God to early 20th century cuentos recorded in the New Mexico Federal Writer’s Project.

]]> 0 da743b1ad5237adc92f884a58ae38776 Yan Liu replied to the topic CFP: "Greenwood Fashion," SEMA 2015 in the discussion Folklore and Literature https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/folklore-and-literature/forum/topic/cfp-greenwood-fashion-sema-2015-2/#post-7737 Thu, 28 May 2015 12:06:48 +0000 Thank you!

]]> 0 8ba124d727203c716c88f15911eb8759 Alexander L. Kaufman started the topic CFP: "Greenwood Fashion," SEMA 2015 in the discussion Folklore and Literature https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/folklore-and-literature/forum/topic/cfp-greenwood-fashion-sema-2015-2/ Wed, 27 May 2015 20:00:14 +0000 CFP: Southeastern Medieval Association (SEMA) Conference. October 22-24, 2015, Little Rock, Arkansas


International Association for Robin Hood Studies Sponsored Session:

“Greenwood Fashion: Clothing, Textiles, Skins, and Furs in the Ongoing Robin Hood Legend”

The Robin Hood ballads and other Robin Hood tellings, from the past through the…[Read more]

]]> 0 8e95f1b705ccb0928c57ed2b0b46bcde John Laudun deposited Gumbo This: The State of a Dish in the group Folklore and Literature https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/109522/ Fri, 08 May 2015 16:38:05 +0000 Gumbo has become the metaphorical melting pot of Louisiana, often reducing complex histories to simple lists of ingredients. This essay offers a more complex history of the dish itself, as well as refuting some of the common misconceptions about the dish and Louisiana foodways found in popular media.

]]> 0 e09d1302da11fd500682c71d3cc5b586 Pamela Herron replied to the topic Peer Reviewers Needed in the forum Folklore and Literature http://mla.hcommons.org/groups/folklore-and-literature/forum/topic/peer-reviewers-needed/#post-3110 Wed, 12 Feb 2014 03:01:35 +0000 I tried to respond to the request for peer reviewers but the message bounced back as undeliverable. Could you please check the email address given to see if it is correct? Thank you.

]]> 0 42a972bb9a577c037e5d7b159c2f97d9 Pamela Herron replied to the topic Peer Reviewers Needed in the forum Folklore and Literature http://mla.hcommons.org/groups/folklore-and-literature/forum/topic/peer-reviewers-needed/#post-3109 Wed, 12 Feb 2014 02:58:24 +0000 I attempted to respond to the request for guest peer reviewers but the email was returned undeliverable. Could you please check the email address provided to see if it is correct? Thank you.

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