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I read an article recently that made an interesting claim: if you looked at people in the 1980s, and people now, who ate the same amount of food and exercised the same amount, the people now would still be about … Continue reading →

I’m still trying to recover from this academic year. It’s been the hardest academic year I’ve had since the one in which I finished my doctoral dissertation (when I went to see a therapist every Thursday, like clockwork). The strange … Continue reading →

I have a novel coming out this summer. It’s called The Strange Case of the Alchemist’s Daughter, and it’s about Mary Jekyll, daughter of the infamous Dr. Jekyll, who discovers that her father belonged to a secret society of alchemists … Continue reading →

There are certain stories that are written over and over again. I call them “template stories.” “Snow White” is a template story. So is Dracula. There are many, many versions of “Snow White”: there’s the Grimms’ fairy tale, of course, … Continue reading →

Into the Dark Forest: Mapping the Fairy Tale Heroine’s Journey by Theodora Goss, PhD The tales that feature a fairy-tale heroine’s journey: ATU 310: “Petrosinella” (Basile), “Persinette” (de la Force), “Rapunzel” (Grimm) ATU 410: “Sun, Moon, and Talia” (Basile), “The … Continue reading →

Into the Dark Forest: Mapping the Fairy-Tale Heroine’s Journey by Theodora Goss, PhD Since the publication of Joseph Campbell’s The Hero with a Thousand Faces and the popularization of his concept of a “hero’s journey,” described on the cover of … Continue reading →

Do you remember card catalogs? Research in them was slow and clunky, but you learned how to do it in elementary or middle school, and then you knew how to do it ever after. I was thinking about card catalogs … Continue reading →