Kazi 88.7 Fm Book Review

Diverse Voices Book Review has produced a new three-episode podcast limited series, Ever Wonder...the Secret Lives of Fairy Tales.  The creator and host is Kimberly J. Lau, a Professor of Literature at the University of California, Santa Cruz, where she teaches courses on fairy tales, monster studies, popular culture, and twentieth- and twenty-first-century women’s fiction, all within the context feminist theory, critical race studies, and gender and sexuality studies. She is the author of numerous books and articles on similar topics, including Specters of the Marvelous: Race and the Development of the European Fairy Tale (December 2024) and Erotic Infidelities: Love and Desire in Angela Carter’s The Bloody Chamber (2015).  In this introduction to the series, Lau explains why she chose each of the fairy tale scholars featured in the series: Sara Hines, Ruth Bottigheimer, and Kay Turner. Click on Kimberly J. Lau to explore her web site.