Catherine Tosenberger
Title: Associate Professor
Phone: 204.786.9354
Office: 2A41
Email: c.tosenberger@uwinnipeg.ca
Biography:
I am currently working on multiple areas of research into fairy tales and folklore, primarily the use of fairy tales in pornography and erotica; the use of folklore in Neo-Pagan religions; young adult literature and folklore, and folklore and sexuality. I received my MA in folklore from Ohio State University, and my PhD in children’s literature and folklore from the University of Florida.
Teaching Areas:
Young People’s Texts and Cultures, folklore
Courses:
| U2024F | ENGL-1004-001 | READING CULTURE |
| U2024FW | ENGL-2114-001 | FAIRY TALES AND CULTURE |
| U2024W | ENGL-3160-001 | TOPICS IN YPTC |
| U2024W | ENGL-4251-001 | EARLY MODERN |
Publications:
“Mature Poets Steal: Children’s Literature and the Unpublishability of
Fanfiction.” Children’s Literature Association Quarterly, forthcoming.
“The True (False) Bride and the False (True) Bridegroom: ‘Fitcher’s Bird’ and Gendered
Virtue and Villainy.” Transgressive Tales: Interpreting Grimm Sex. Ed. Pauline
Greenhill and Kay Turner. Wayne State University Press, 2012. 207-21.
“’Kinda Like the Folklore of Its Day’: Supernatural, Fairy Tales, and Ostension.”
Transformative Works and Cultures: “Saving People, Hunting Things”: Special
Issue on Supernatural 4 (2010).
<http://journal.transformativeworks.org/index.php/twc/article/view/174/156>
“’The Epic Love Story of Sam and Dean’: Supernatural and the Romance of Incestuous
Fan Fiction.” Transformative Works and Cultures 1 (2008).
<http://journal.transformativeworks.org/index.php/twc/article/view/30/36>
“’Oh my God, the Fanfiction!’ Dumbledore’s Outing and the Online Harry Potter
Fandom.” Children’s Literature Association Quarterly 33:2 (2008), 200-206.
“Homosexuality at the Online Hogwarts: Harry Potter Slash Fanfiction.” Children’s
Literature 36 (2008), 185-207.