How much of a geek are you?

You know your a super geeky English major when.... you have a favorite literary critic. XD

That's pretty bad, no? But seriously, I think Jack Zipes is brilliant. I read some of his books for a research paper I wrote about the story of Rapunzel last year. Zipes has some wonderful feminist theory about fairy tales, and I agree with his assessment that fairy tales have a huge social impact (which I'd love to research further).

Although he's now retired, Dr. Zipes used to be a Professor of German (not surprising) and Comparative Literature at the University of Minnesota.

I was reminded of Jack Zipes because 1.) I watched Disney's Tangled  and 2.) I found an article written by him in a book about Utopian and Dystopian literature I was reading as research for my Margaret Atwood seminar class. So cool!

His books are on my Christmas list, such as this one here, humorously titled Don't Bet on the Prince. And Fairy Tale as Myth/ Myth as Fairy Tale. Most importantly, someday I want to buy The Complete Fairy Tales of the Brothers Grimm which has been translated anew by Zipes. <3

I actually never read any of the Brothers Grimm versions. I had a book by Hans Christian Anderson as a kid, which was really cool too.

If you weren't certain I am a super geek English major, you can be now. 

I literally squeed when I saw this photo. That's Jack Zipes on the left & Neil Gaiman on the right.

So, now that I've proven my geekiness, this post is done </bow out>.