Curriculum Vitae: Jessica Tiffin

ACADEMIC CAREER

1988-1990BA degree, University of Cape Town, with Distinction in English.
1991Honours in English, University of Cape Town, First Class.
1992-1995Masters in English, University of Cape Town, with Distinction.
Thesis topic: "Magical Land: ecological consciousness in fantasy romance."
1996-2002PhD in English, University of Cape Town.
Thesis topic: "Marvellous Geometry: Genre and metafiction in modern fairy tale."
2003-2004Mellon Postdoctoral Fellowship, Department of English, UCT
2005-2007Lectureship, Department of English, UCT

PUBLICATIONS

(2009) "Inside/Outside Fantastic London." English Academy Review 25 (2).

(2009) Marvellous Geometry: Genre and metafiction in modern fairy tale. Detroit: Wayne State University Press.

(2008) Entries, including "Animation", "Film and Video", "Metafiction", "The Walt Disney Company", in Encyclopedia of Folktales and Fairy Tales, ed. Donald Haase, Greenwood Press.

(2006) "Ice, glass, snow: fairy tale as art and metafiction in the writing of A.S. Byatt." Marvels and Tales 20 (1).

(1999) "Digitally remythicised: Star Wars, modern popular mythology and Madam and Eve." Journal of Literary Studies 15 (1/2).

(1997) "`Nice and neat and formal:' entrapment, transformation and narrative convention in Thurber's fairy tales." Fissions and Fusions: Proceedings of the First Conference of the Cape American Studies Association, July 1996. Ed. Lesley Marx, Loes Nas and Lara Dunwell. Cape Town: UWC Press.

(1997) "All the world's a pizza: postmodernism, popular culture and Pshakespeare in Terry Pratchett's Discworld." InterAction: Proceedings of the fifth postgraduate conference, 1996. Ed. Gabeba Baderoon, Christopher Roper and Herman Wittenberg. Cape Town: UWC Press.

(1996) "Promised land: religion and ecology in Orson Scott Card's Alvin Maker series." Bracket: A Journal of Graduate Studies in the Humanities 2(1).

(1995) "Psychological fantasy: Donaldson's Thomas Covenant and the failure of genre." InterAction: proceedings of the third postgraduate conference, 1994. Ed. Loes Nas, Christopher Roper and Herman Wittenberg. Cape Town: UWC Press.

(1994) "Defending the magical land - fantasy, ecology, comedy." InterAction: Proceedings of the second postgraduate conference, 1993. Ed. Loes Nas and Murray Lamond. Cape Town: UWC Press.

REVIEWS

(2005) Marguerite Gordon, ed. Nelson Mandela's Favorite African Folktales. Marvels and Tales 19(2).

(2004) Brenda Ayres, ed. The Emperor's Old Groove: Decolonising Disney's Magic Kingdom. Marvels and Tales 18(2).

(2008) Walter Rankin. Grimm Pictures: Fairy Tale Archetypes in Eight Horror and Suspense Films. Marvels and Tales 23(1).

FORTHCOMING PUBLICATIONS

UNPUBLISHED PAPERS

(1995) "The rhetoric of frustration: feminism, ecology and the impossibility of change in the works of Sheri S. Tepper." UNISA symposium on Science Fiction and Social Change, Pretoria, October 1995.

(1998) "Genies in bottles: narrative entrapment in A.S. Byatt's fairy tales." Unpublished paper delivered to InterAction: the seventh postgraduate conference, Stellenbosch, September 1998.

(2005) "Impossible beauty, Inevitable Loss: Genre and Fan Culture in The Lord of the Rings.” Film Studies Colloquium, Centre for Film and Media Studies, UCT.