The Center for Folklore Studies presents
The History and Future of Fairy-Tale Studies
Donald Haase
Wednesday, October 3rd, 2012
4:00PM
311 Denney Hall
Supported by the Department of English
Fairy-tale studies emerged as a distinct historical and critical phenomenon in the last three decades of the twentieth century. This talk surveys the genesis of fairy-tale studies, documents the crucial role of Grimm scholarship and American Germanists, and considers the reasons for the movement’s expansion, including its sustained trajectory and controversies. This presentation explores questions about the future of fairy-tale studies as a coherent, multidisciplinary phenomenon.
Donald Haase is Professor of German and Associate Dean of the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences at Wayne State University. A leading scholar of the Western fairytale tradition in literature and film, he is also the editor of Marvels & Tales: Journal of Fairy-Tale Studies as well as the three-volume Greenwood Encyclopedia of Folktales and Fairy Tales (2007) .