Featured Speakers

Alicita Rodriguez is a fiction writer and a creative writing professor at Western State College in Gunnison,Colorado. She is also the fiction editor for the literary journal Marginalia.

Maria Tatar is the John L. Loeb Professor of Germanic Languages and Literatures at Harvard University. Her most recent publications include The Annotated Brothers Grimm, the Norton Critical Edition of The Classic Fairy Tales, and The Hard Facts of the Grimms' Fairy Tales.

Lester Olson is a Professor in the Communication Department at the University of Pittsburg. His interests include colonial America and visual rhetoric, and his most recent books are Emblems of American Community in the Revolutionary Era: A Study in Rhetorical Iconology (Smithsonian Institution Press, 1991) and Benjamin Franklin’s Vision of American Community: A Study in Rhetorical Iconology (University of South Carolina Press, 2004).

Holly Tucker is an Associate Professor in the Department of French and Italian at Vanderbilt University. She is author of a recent article on fairy tales, “Fairies, Midwives, and Birth Spaces in the Tales of Mme d’Aulnoy” in Classical Unities: Place, Time, Action.

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