Keynote Speakers
Prof Diane Purkiss belongs to the Faculty of English at Oxford University and is Fellow and Tutor at Keble College. She has written numerous scholarly works on fairies, folklore and witchcraft, including Troublesome Things: A History of Fairies and Fairy Stories (2001) and The Witch in History: Early Modern and Late Twentieth Century Representations (1996). Her most recent publications include the book Magical Tales: Myth, Legend and Enchantment in Children's Books (Bodleian Library, 2013), which she co-edited with Carolyne Larrington. Her research interests include (but are not limited to) witches, wizards, fairies and ghosts; the English Civil War; writer's block; folktales and folklore; women's writing; psychoanalysis; popular culture; feminism and feminist theory. She has an ongoing interest in early modern witchcraft, and is currently working on a project in that area.
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Dr Amy Davis lectures in film and animation studies at the University of Hull. She is the author of Good Girls & Wicked Witches: Women in Disney’s Feature Animation (2006) and Handsome Heroes & Vile Villains: Men in Disney’s Feature Animation (2013), both from John Libbey & Company/University of Indiana Press. Her research focuses on American animation history (especially the Disney Studio), representations of gender roles in US animation and popular culture, and various issues connected with both Hollywood cinema and American cultural history. She is currently writing a book on representations of masculinity in Disney’s feature animation, as well as working on a longer-term project on the Disney theme parks.
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