Anne E. Duggan

Anne E. Duggan

Anne E. Duggan is professor of French in the Department of Classical and Modern Languages, Literatures and Cultures at Wayne State University. Working between the French early modern tale tradition and twentieth- and twenty-first century French fairy-tale film, her most recent books include "The Lost Princess: Women Writers and the History of Classic Fairy Tales" (2023),  the second revised edition of "Salonnières, Furies, and Fairies: The Politics of Gender and Cultural Change in Absolutist France" (2021), the edited volume "A Cultural History of Fairy Tales in the Long Eighteenth Century" (2021), and the coedited and translated work, "Women Writing Wonder: An Anthology of Subversive Nineteenth-Century British, French, and German Fairy Tales," with Julie Koehler, Shandi Wagner, and Adrion Dula (2021). With Cristina Bacchilega, Professor Duggan is co-editor of "Marvels & Tales: Journal of Fairy-Tale Studies." She is series editor of The Donald Haase Series in Fairy-Tale Studies at Wayne State University Press.

Research in progress

I am currently working on a book project tentatively titled "French Engagé Animation," or "Tales of Social Justice."

Research interest(s)/area of expertise

• Early modern studies
• Early modern gender studies
• Fairy-tale studies
• Fairy-tale film

Education

• Ph.D. in French Studies, University of Minnesota
• M.A. in French Studies, University of Minnesota
• B.A. in French Studies, magna cum laude, University of Minnesota

Selected publications

Books

• 消失的“公主”：女性作家和经典童话. Trans. Chen Wenjing. Shanghai: Shanghai Academy of Social Sciences Press, 2025. Chinese translation of The Lost Princess.
• Duggan, Anne E. The Lost Princess: Women Writers and the History of Classic Fairy Tales. Reaktion Books, 2023
• Duggan, Anne E. Salonnières, Furies, and Fairies: the Politics of Gender and Cultural Change in Absolutist France. 2nd revised edition. University of Delaware Press, 2021
• Julie L. J. Koehler, Shandi Lynne Wagner, Anne E. Duggan, and Adrion Dula, eds., and trans. Women Writing Wonder: An Anthology of Subversive Nineteenth-Century British, French, and German Fairy Tales. Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 2021
• Duggan, Anne E., General Editor, A Cultural History of Fairy Tales, 6 vols. Bloomsbury: 2021
• Duggan, Anne E., ed. A Cultural History of Fairy Tales: The Long Eighteenth Century. Vol. 4 of A Culture History of Fairy Tales. Bloomsbury, 2021
• Duggan, Anne E., and Donald Haase, eds. With Helen Callow. Folktales and Fairy Tales: Traditions and Texts from around the World. Second revised and expanded edition of The Greenwood Encyclopedia of Folktale and Fairy Tales. Ed. Donald Haase. 4 vols. Santa Barbara: ABC-CLIO, 2016
• Duggan, Anne E. Enchantements désenchantés: les contes queer de Jacques Demy. Trans. Jean-François Cornu. Rennes: Presses Universitaires de Rennes, 2015. French translation of Queer Enchantments.
• Duggan, Anne E. Queer Enchantments: Gender, Sexuality, and Class in the Fairy-Tale Cinema of Jacques Demy. Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 2013

Recent articles and book chapters

• "Marie-Catherine d'Aulnoy's Eighteenth-Century Legacy: The Case of Hamilton and Caylus." Féeries 20 (2024).
• "Marie-Catherine d'Aulnoy: ses contes et leur prolifique héritage en Europe." Oeuvres & Critiques XLVIII.1 (2023): 11-34
• "Generating Desire: Chocolate, Chromolithographs, and Marie-Catherine d’Aulnoy’s Fairy Tales,” French Cultural Studies (2023): 1-25
• “Remédiatisation et recodage des Mille et Une Nuits: Schéhérazade de Florence Miailhe.” Féeries: Etudes sur le conte de fées. 18 (2022)
• "Gender, Class, and Human/Non-Human Fluidity in Théodore and Hippolyte Cogninards’ féerie, The White Cat.” Special issue “Gender Fluidity in Early-Modern to Post-Modern Children’s Literature and Cutlure, eds. Sophie Raynard and Charlotte Trinquet du Lys. Open Cultural Studies, vol. 5, no. 1, 2021, pp. 208-220. https://doi.org/10.1515/culture-2020-0132
• "Métissage and the Literary Field of the French Enlightenment: The Impact of Galland’s Translation of the Arabian Nights." The Thousand and One Nights: Sources and Transformations in Literature, Art, and Science. Ed. Ibrahim Akel and William Granara. Leiden: Brill, 2020. 69-81
• “Regenrer Schéhérazade et Shariar: Les Mille et un jours et Les Quarante Vizirs de François Pétis de la Crois.” Oeuvres & Critiques. XLV.1 (2020) 31-45
• "The Querelle des femmes and Nicolas Boileau’s Satire X: Going beyond Perrault.” Early Modern French Studies. 41.2 (2019): 144-57
• “Marriage, Female Agency, and Sexuality in Monster Bridegroom Tales: Teaching ‘Beauty and the Beast.’” Teaching Fairy Tales. Ed. Nancy L. Canepa. Detroit: Wayne State University Press, March 2019. wsupress.wayne.edu/books/detail/teaching-fairy-tales
• "Gender.” Routledge Companion to Media and Fairy-Tale Cultures. Co-edited by Pauline Greenhill, Jill Terry Rudy, and Naomi Hamer. New York: Routledge, 2018. 113-121
• "Les Femmes Illustres, or the Book as Triumphal Arch.” Papers on French Seventeenth-Century Literature XLIV.87 (2017): 1-20
• "Monstrous Modernity on French Television: La Brigade des maléfices." Special Issue on Transcultural/Intermedial Fairy Tales on TV, Marvels & Tales, Guest Editors Pauline Greenhill and Jill Rudy. 31.1 (2017): 44-61
• “Madeleine de Scudéry’s Animal Sublime, or Of Chameleons.” Ecozon 7.1 (2016): 28-42. 
  

Non-academic publications

• "Reactionaries and Revolutionaries: Classical Fairy Tales and Class." Culture Matters 19 June 2016 14:43

Other qualifications directly relevant to courses taught

Winter 2024: FRE 5410/8410 centers on the topic "Feminist Writing: From Christine de Pizaon to Simone de Beauvoir" (in French). Through the exploration of collections of "illustrious women," treatises on equality, novels and tales, and feminist journalism, we will follow the history of arguments about the equality of women and men from the early Renaissance to the twentieth century on the part of female and male writers. Students will discover a vibrant and complex history that reveals that women always had a voice, and that there were always men who supported feminist causes. The course challenges the notion that until the twentieth century, women simply suffered under a monolithic notion of patriarchy, revealing a much more complex and dynamic history of feminism in France.

Courses taught by Anne E. Duggan

Fall Term 2025 (future)

• FRE2100 - French through Film I
• FRE2991 - Understanding the Fairy Tale
• GER2991 - Understanding the Fairy Tale

Winter Term 2025 (current)

• FRE3300 - Professional French through Literary and Filmic Texts

Fall Term 2024

• FRE6200 - Renaissance to Revolution

Winter Term 2024

• FRE5100 - Advanced French Composition and Conversation through Cultural Analysis
• FRE5410 - Topics in French and Francophone Culture
• FRE8410 - Topics in French and Francophone Culture

Fall Term 2023

• FRE2100 - French through Film I
• FRE2991 - Understanding the Fairy Tale
• GER2991 - Understanding the Fairy Tale

Winter Term 2023

• FRE3300 - Professional French through Literary and Filmic Texts
• FRE5410 - Topics in French and Francophone Culture
• FRE8410 - Topics in French and Francophone Culture