This is the homepage of Jessica Tiffin. I'm a student advisor and part-time lecturer in the Faculty of Humanities at the University of Cape Town. My research interests are in modern metafictional fairy tale, fantasy and science fiction, romance, Gothic literature, children's literature and the Victorians. My doctorate, entitled "Marvellous geometry: narrative and metafiction in modern fairy tale", has just been published by Wayne State University Press in their Fairy Tale Series. I am currently teaching the erotic in vampire texts and in internet culture, and supervising postgraduate theses in fairy tale and science fiction. My student development post doesn't leave me nearly enough time for writing, but current research work in progress includes Harry Potter and pedagogy, Mary Shelley's Frankenstein in comparison with Tepper's Grass, and self-consciousness in the Edwardian fairy tales of E. Nesbit.