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Coming Up Next:
Prof. Jane Harrington
We're excited to invite Prof. Jane Harrington for our interview series!
Jane Harrington teaches literature and wordcraft at W&L University and in the MFA program at Hollins University. Her research and writing passions include the French salon writers who shaped the fairy tale tradition, Irish folklore and history (with a focus on Lady Wilde), and the ecology and culture of the Appalachian region she calls home. Jane has written popular books for the youth market (Scholastic, Lerner) and currently crafts literary fiction and creative nonfiction. Her short works have been featured in an array of journals and anthologies, including Chautauqua, Feminine Collective, New Square, Anthology of Appalachian Writers, Mountains Piled Upon Mountains: Appalachian Nature Writing in the Anthropocene (2019), and most recently John Scalzi’s Whatever blog and the fairy tale journal Orange & Bee. Jane’s indie novel In Circling Flight (2022) was longlisted for the Crook’s Corner Book Prize, and her latest book, Women of the Fairy Tale Resistance: The Forgotten Founding Mothers of the Fairy Tale and the Stories That They Spun, was published this past August.
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When: December 05, 1-2pm EST/EDT.
Join us over Zoom: https://msu.zoom.us/j/95375855256
Meeting ID: 953 7585 5256
Click here for more information about Prof. Harrington​
or check out her website: https://www.janeharrington.com/
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The BGSNA is a literary, nonprofit (501)(c)(3) public benefit corporation. It was organized under the Nonprofit Public Benefit Corporation Law for public purposes in the state of Florida on October 2, 2021. The purposes of the corporation are to encourage and promote the study and research of all aspects of the legacy and the spirit of the brothers Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm, their works, their lives, their period, and the historic and contemporary dissemination of the Grimms' fairy tales as well as their other texts.
Latest News
“The Brothers Grimm: More than Fairy Tales”
by Gabriele Rose (2022)
Prof. Jack Zipes says about the film:
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“It is excellent! … Anyone who might want to teach a course about fairy tales should begin with this film, for it raises many questions and clarifies who the Grimms were and how important they are.”
“If you want your children to be intelligent, read them fairy tales. If you want them to be more intelligent, read them more fairy tales.”