Call for Papers on Fairy Tales

The Popular Culture Association has another call for papers, this one coming in the area of fairy tales. The CFP is reproduced below. Curiously, there is no mention of contemporary fairy tales as expressed through Guillermo del Toro and his masterpiece Pan’s Labyrinth, or as Walter Rankin has suggested in his book Grimm Pictures (McFarland, 2007), that fairy tale archetypes surface in many contemporary horror and suspense films. See the related posts links at the conclusion of this post for further exploration of these ideas. Another interesting trajectory to explore at this conference comes from Bruno Bettelheim’s book The Uses of Enchantment: The Meaning and Importance of Fairy Tales (Vintage, 2010), where he mentions the inclusion of religious motifs in fairy tales, a topic I hope to post on in the future after working through Bettelheim.

The Fairy Tales Area of the Popular Culture Association invites submissions on any topic involving Fairy Tales for the 2011 Popular Culture Association/American Culture Association Convention, to be held April 20 – April 23 in San Antonio.

The Fairy Tales Area covers original fairy tales, (i.e. Straparola, Perrault and Grimm, etc.), contemporary/ re-envisioned Fairy Tales (Datlow & Windling anthologies, The Fairy Tale series, etc.), and Jack Tales as well as films and TV series based on Fairy Tales or using Fairy Tales motifs. Thus, the interests are broad and inclusive; one topic always of interest is how Fairy tales work in contemporary culture.

Topics can include but are not limited to studies on the morphology of Fairy tales; presentations using Structuralist, Feminist, Marxist, Reader Response/ Reception Theory and Cultural Studies criticism; Fairy Tales as Children’s Literature; the history and evolution of Fairy Tales; the cause and effects of the “Disneyfication” of Fairy Tales; the use and value of Fairy Tales. We are interested in as wide an array of papers as possible, so please do not hesitate to send a submission on any Fairy Tale related subject.

Please send a 250-word abstract, with title and contact information included, via email to either of the addresses listed below.

Please email submissions as a Word attachment.

Linda J. Holland-Toll
Area Chair, Fairy Tales
Department of Language and Literature
Mount Olive College
919-658-7845
lholland-toll@moc.edu

Dr. Robin Gray Nicks
Area Chair, Fairy Tales
Composition
School of General Education
(865) 323-1854.
RNicks@Kaplan.edu

Linda J. Holland-Toll, Ph.D.
Associate Professor of English
Advisor, English Education
Department of Language and Literature
Mount Olive College
919-658-7845