Who am I?

Anne E. Duggan is a professor of French and fairy-tale studies at Wayne State University (see her WSU profile). Her single-authored books include Salonnières, Furies, and Fairies: The Politics of Gender and Cultural Change in Absolutist France (2005; rev. 2021), Queer Enchantments: Gender, Sexuality, and Class in the Fairy-Tale Cinema of Jacques Demy (2013; French translation 2015), and The Lost Princess: Women Writers and the History of Classic Fairy Tales (2023; Chinese translation 2025). With Donald Haase she edited the four-volume Folktales and Fairy Tales: Traditions and Texts from around the World (2016), and she coedited and co-translated with Julie L. J. Koehler, Shandi Lynne Wagner, and Adrion Dula Women Writing Wonder: An Anthology of Subversive Nineteenth-Century British, French, and German Fairy Tales (2021). She also served as the general editor for the six-volume A Cultural History of Fairy Tales (2021). She is co-editor (with Claudia Schwabe and Christy Williams) of Marvels & Tales: Journal of Fairy-Tale Studies and is the editor of the Donald Haase Series in Fairy-Tale Studies at Wayne State University Press. She can be contacted via email at a.duggan@wayne.edu.

See her WSU TEDx talk, "Transforming Our Understanding of Fairy Tales."