Preface: Thinking with Stories in Times of Conflict

Cristina Bacchilega is Professor and Graduate Program Director in the Department of English at the University of Hawai’i-Mānoa and co-editor, with Anne E. Duggan, of the journal Marvels & Tales. Her most recent publications include the book Fairy Tales Transformed? Twenty-First-Century Adaptations and the Politics of Wonder (2013); and essays in The Routledge Companion to Media and Fairy-Tale Cultures (ed. Pauline Greenhill, Jill Terry Rudy, Naomi Hamer, and Lauren Bosc, 2018); and in the Journal of the Fantastic in the Arts.

Anne E. Duggan is Professor of French and the chair of the Department of Classical and Modern Languages, Literatures, and Cultures at Wayne State University and co-editor, with Cristina Bacchilega, of the journal Marvels & Tales. Her most recent books include Queer Enchantments: Gender, Sexuality, and Class in the Fairy-Tale Cinema of Jacques Demy (2013); and Folktales and Fairy Tales: Traditions and Texts from around the World (co-edited with Donald Haase, with Helen Callow, 2016).