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Jack Zipes
Jack Zipes is Professor Emeritus of German and comparative literature at the University of Minnesota. An internationally respected scholar, author, translator and editor, among his many works on fairy tales are The Irresistible Fairy Tale: The Cultural and Social History of a Genre (Princeton University Press, 2012), The Enchanted Screen: The Unknown History of Fairy Tale Films (Routledge, 2010), Grimm Legacies: The Magic Spell of the Grimms’ Folk and Fairy Tales (Princeton University Press, 2014) and The Sorcerer’s Apprentice: An Anthology of Magical Tales (Princeton University Press, 2017). Most recently he has published Catarina the Wise and Other Wondrous Sicilian Folk and Fairy Tales (Chicago University Press, 2017), Slap-Bam, The Art of Governing Men: Édouard Laboulaye’s Political Fairy Tales (Princeton University Press, 2018), The Giant Ohl and Tiny Tim (Tiny Mole and Honey Bear Press, 2019) and Hermynia Zur Mühlen’s The Castle of Truth and Other Revolutionary Tales (Princeton University Press, 2020).