THE BROTHERS GRIMM SOCIETY
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We're excited to invite Prof. Ann Schmiesing, the recipient of the BGSNA Book Award 2024 for our interview series!
Ann Schmiesing is Professor of German and Scandinavian Studies at the University of Colorado Boulder, with research interests in 18th and 19th-century German and Norwegian literature and culture. She is the author of the books The Brothers Grimm: A Biography (2024), Disability, Deformity, and Disease in the Grimms’ Fairy Tales (2014), and Norway’s Christiania Theatre, 1827-1867: From Danish Showhouse to National Stage (2006).
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When: September 18, 11a-12pm EST/EDT.
Join us over Zoom: https://msu.zoom.us/j/92284178204
Click here for more information about Prof. Ann Schmiesing
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Click here for more information on her 2024 BGSNA award winning book!
Call for Papers:
Women Writing Wonder in the Long Nineteenth-Century:
European Fairy-Tale Traditions
Deadline extended to August 15th, 2025
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While the French fairy-tale writers of the 1690s and those of the twentieth and twenty-first century have received significant scholarly attention, scholarship on nineteenth-century women writers and collectors of tales lags behind. The anthology Women Writing Wonder: An Anthology of Subversive Nineteenth-Century British, French, and German Fairy Tales (2021) sought to bring more critical attention to women writing wonder in this period and their transnational connections and interactions. This collection of essays seeks to bring scholars together who are working on nineteenth-century women fairy-tale writers, collectors, and storytellers across Europe.
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Scholars interested in contributing to the volume should send a 300 word proposal to Anne Duggan a.duggan@wayne and Julie Koehler jkoehler@msu.edu by August 15, 2025.
Accepted proposals will be developed into 6000 words essays, with an anticipated submission date of August 1, 2026.
We are looking for essays on women writing, collecting, and/or telling fairy tales or participating in narrative folk traditions in Europe in the long nineteenth century (1789-1914).
Possible areas of focus could include, but are not limited to:
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Examples of women working together across national borders and across cultural and language divides
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Examples of women writers who had a national impact or influence
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Women writing in regional dialects and languages (such as Breton, Basque, Catalon, Irish, Plattdeutsch, Sami, Scottish Gaelic, Romani, Yiddish etc.)
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Working class women writers
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Jewish women writers in Europe
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Minority women writers in Europe
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Women writers working in the following regions and nations: Albania, Armenia, Eastern Europe, Balkan States, Baltic States, Bulgaria, Georgia, Greece, Russia, Turkey, Ukraine
Our Mission
The BGSNA is a literary, nonprofit (501)(c)(3) public benefit corporation. It was organized under the Nonprofit Public Benefit Corporation Law for public purposes in the state of Florida on October 2, 2021. The purposes of the corporation are to encourage and promote the study and research of all aspects of the legacy and the spirit of the brothers Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm, their works, their lives, their period, and the historic and contemporary dissemination of the Grimms' fairy tales as well as their other texts.
Latest News
“The Brothers Grimm: More than Fairy Tales”
by Gabriele Rose (2022)
Prof. Jack Zipes says about the film:
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“It is excellent! … Anyone who might want to teach a course about fairy tales should begin with this film, for it raises many questions and clarifies who the Grimms were and how important they are.”
“If you want your children to be intelligent, read them fairy tales. If you want them to be more intelligent, read them more fairy tales.”