CFP: New Book Series “Wonder Tales: Critical and Creative Approaches”

Wonder Tales: Critical and Creative Approaches (Utah State University Press) publishes innovative scholarship and creative engagement with wonder tales across cultural traditions, offering a platform for critical studies that examine wonder as narrative mode and cultural practice. The series editors position wonder tales as a rich transnational corpus that travels between orality and print, folklore and literature, performance and digital media, traditional storytelling and creative experimentation. Volumes in the series will engage with wonder as a concept with varied cultural, aesthetic, political, and ethical dimensions, while also addressing approaches and traditions that remain under-represented in existing folklore and fairy-tale studies. Collaborations among scholars, translators, artists, and storytellers are encouraged.

The editors welcome proposals for monographs, essay collections, creative-and-analytical work, and/or story collections with critical apparatus, centering wonder and wonder tales from various oral traditions, literary works, films, and/or digital media. Proposals ranging from 8 to 20 pages should follow the press submission guidelines.

Series Editors
Cristina Bacchilega (University of Hawaiʻi-Mānoa, cbacchi@hawaii.edu)
Veronica Schanoes (Queens College, City University of New York, veronica.schanoes@qc.cuny.edu)
Elena Sottilotta (University of Cambridge, ees45@cam.ac.uk)