Jack Zipes
Academic / Scholar
American · 20th-21st century
American scholar of fairy tales and folklore, known for his studies of how fairy tales shape and challenge social values, and as editor of The Oxford Companion to Fairy Tales.
Connection to Taylor Swift
A fairy tale scholar whose books Uncle Jerry shows as background to his reading of folklore.
Notable Works
- Fairy Tales and the Art of Subversion; Fairy Tale as Myth / Myth as Fairy Tale; The Oxford Companion to Fairy Tales; The Great Fairy Tale Tradition