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Jack Zipes

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German, Nordic, Slavic & Dutch
320 Folwell Hall

9 Pleasant St SE
Minneapolis, MN 55455

Curriculum Vitae
Collegiate Affiliation
German, Nordic, Slavic & Dutch
  • Specialties
  • Publications
  • Activities
  • Awards
  • Courses
Specialties
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Specialties

  • children's tales
  • critical theory of the Frankfurt School
  • fairy tales for children
  • German literature
  • Germany, GDR
  • Jewish studies
  • storytelling
  • the Brothers Grimm
Publications
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Publications

  • Zipes, Jack. When Dreams Came True:Classical Fairy Tales and their Tradition. Routledge, 1999.
  • Zipes, Jack. Happily Ever After: Fairy Tales, Children, and the Culture Industry. Routledge, 1997.
  • Zipes, Jack, edited with Sander Gilman. The Yale Companion of Jewish Writing and Thought. Yale University Press, 1999.
  • Zipes, Jack. The Great Fairy Tale Tradition: From Straparola and Basile to the Brothers Grimm. Norton, W. W. & Company, Inc., 2001.
  • Zipes, Jack. Sticks and Stones: The Troublesome Success of Children's Literature from Slovenly Peter to Harry Potter. Routledge, 2000.
  • Zipes, Jack, Leslie Morris. Unlikely History: The Changing German-Jewish Symbiosis. Palgrave, 2002.
  • Zipes, Jack. The Oxford Companion to Fairy Tales. Oxford University Press, 2000.
  • Zipes, Jack. Beautiful Angiola: The Great Treasury of Sicilian Folk and Fairy Tales Collected by Laura Gonzenbach. Routledge, 2003.
Activities
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Activities

Professional

  • Chair 1994 - 1998
  • Director 1998 - 2002
  • Acting Chair 1991 - 1994

Outreach

  • Playwright September 2003 - April 2004
  • Director 1996 - present

Creative

  • Instructor at the Junior Conservatory of the Children's Theatre Company of Minneapolis: Training young students in theater production. September 2003 - present
  • Playwright: "Sicilian Nights," produced in collaboration with the Frank Theatre of Minneapolis. September 2003 - April 2004
Awards
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Awards

  • College of Liberal Arts Scholars of the College, University of Minnesota, 1997 - none
  • Fulbright, none - none
  • Guggenheim, none - none
  • McKnight, none - none
  • National Endowment for the Humanities, none - none
  • Thomas D. Clark Lectureship, University of Kentucky, 1993 - none
  • International Brothers Grimm Award, 1999 - none
  • Distinguished Scholar, International Association for the Fantastic in the Arts, 1992 - none
Courses
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Courses

  • The Origins of the Follk and Fairy Tale
  • Ger 3642 - The Grimms' Fairy Tales, Feminism, and Folklore
  • The Frankfurt School
  • Children, Childhood, and the Civilizing Process
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101 Pleasant St. S.E.
Minneapolis, MN 55455

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