The Fairy-Tale Vanguard

Stijn Praet is a Postdoctoral Researcher and Lecturer in the Department of Literary Studies at Ghent University, Belgium, where he teaches courses on fairy-tale history and research methodology, and the theory and practice of literary translation. He has authored several articles and book chapters on Latin and vernacular fairy tales in publications such as IJCT, Viator, Volkskunde, Narratologie und mittelalterliches Erzählen, and Anti-Tales: The Uses of Disenchantment, as well as a volume of translated Latin poetry, In het spoor van Vergilius.

Anna Kérchy is an Associate Professor of Literature at the English Department of Szeged University, Hungary, where she teaches courses on children’s literature, Victorian and postmodern fantastic imagination, and gender studies. She is the author of Alice in Transmedia Wonderland and Angela Carter’s Body-Texts. Her (co-)editorial work includes Postmodern Reinterpretations of Fairy-Tales and a journal issue on Translating and Transmediating Children’s Literature. She has also authored a chapter in The Routledge Companion to Media and Fairy-Tale Cultures.