Vanessa Joosen is professor of English literature and children's literature at the University of Antwerp. She is author of Critical and Creative Perspectives on Fairy Tales: An Intertextual Dialogue between Fairy-Tale Scholarship and Postmodern Retellings, which was named a Choice Outstanding Academic Title, and coeditor of Grimms' Tales around the Globe: The Dynamics of Their International Reception, which received the Children's Literature Association Honor Award for Edited Book.
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