Fairy LGBTales: Mapping Queer Fairy-Tale Retellings from the 1990s to the 2010s (original) (raw)

This thesis would not have been possible without the help of many fairy godmothers and godfathers. First of all, I must sincerely thank my main supervisor, Rebecca Scherr, for her flexible supervision style, which allowed me to find my own way, but also for her insightful directions in the most critical moments of the writing process, which have had an enormous impact on the final form of the thesis. Infinite thanks go to Anne Duggan, my cosupervisor, whose lucid guidance has been essential, whose enthusiasm has kept me going when I was feeling discouraged, and who has enormously impacted not only my impressions of my own project, but also of the fairy-tale genre as a whole. I am also greatly indebted to my midway evaluator, Vanessa Joosen, whose intelligent feedback at a crucial juncture challenged me to turn this project into something worth reading (and writing). I am forever grateful to Tina Skouen and Bruce Barnhart, project leaders of Literature, Rights, and Imagined Communities, for allowing me to carry out this study, for believing in me and my vision, and for their unwavering support in the last three years. Thanks to the generous funding from the Faculty of Humanities and the Department of Literature, Area Studies and European Languages, I was allowed to attend numerous conferences and summer schools, and especially to do invaluable research stays at Brown University and Wayne State University. I would like to extend my profound gratitude to Lewis Seifert (Brown University), for his early guidance and thought-provoking conversations, and to the fairy-tale working group at Wayne