Trouble Brewing in "Once Upon a Time": How Fairy Tales Change (with) Us

What kinds of cultural work do fairy tales do for us? Riddles wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma, these stories are forever shape-shifting, thwarting our efforts to extract straightforward messages, morals, and meaning. Is Red Riding Hood an innocent victim, a ruthless assassin, a charming flirt, or all of the above? Fairy tales have always taken up vexing cultural contradictions, and we are now turning to an expanded, “decolonized” canon to probe the messy realities of the Anthropocene and of human experience in general. Maria Tatar is a Senior Fellow at Harvard’s Society of Fellows and the Emerita Professor of Folklore & Mythology and Germanic Languages and Literatures. The author of The Heroine with 1001 Faces, The Annotated Brothers Grimm, Classic Fairy Tales, and other volumes, she is a frequent contributor to The New York Times, NPR, the BBC, and other media outlets. This event is part of The Derek Agard Distinguished Scholar Lecture Series.

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Tuesday, September 23, 2025 | 1:30 pm - 2:30 pm

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Merrill cazier Library
   Room: 101

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College of Arts and Sciences

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Phone: 4358814574
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