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Cristina Bacchilega

Cristina Bacchilega
Cristina Bacchilega is the co-editor, with Marie Alohalani Brown, of The Penguin Book of Mermaids and is also the co-editor, along with Anne E. Duggan, of Marvels & Tales: Journal of Fairy-Tale Studie. In Spring 2016, she was a Fulbright Fellow teaching at the Universita' L'Orientale in Naples, Italy and conducting research on the 2015 film The Tale of Tales. In summer 2017, she was the co-organizer of an international conference at Wayne State University, "Thinking with Stories in Times of Conflict."


How Mermaid Stories Illustrate Complex Truths About
Being Human

The Tropes, Tricks, and Tools We Find in Tales of Merfolk
October 25, 2019  By Cristina Bacchilega
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