Jack Zipes

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

• 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

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

• 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