Please join the Center for Gender and Sexuality for Behind the Publication, a behind-the-scenes workshop series on faculty research in gender and sexuality.

The series begins this semester with Dr. Anne E. Duggan, Professor of French in the Department of Classical and Modern Languages, Literatures and Cultures. 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). Dr. Duggan is currently working on a book project tentatively titled French Engagé Animation, or Tales of Social Justice. The book focuses on the animated films of Paul Grimault and Jacques Prévert, Jean-Pierre Laguionie, Florence Miaihle, and Sébastien Laudenbach.

For this talk, Dr. Duggan will share from her experience writing "Queer Filmic Adaptations of Classical Tales: The French Tradition," collected in Classic Fairy Tales (2026).

About the series: The central goal of this series is to offer graduate and undergraduate students a series of informal workshops where faculty encourage and demystify research by sharing their own experiences. We invite WSU faculty members to share a little about the genesis of their current or recent research. We ask them to discuss the joys and frustrations of the project; to elaborate on the decisions around the scope of the work; to assess methodological questions; to discuss writing practices; to highlight the importance of colleagues, librarians, friends, and other interlocutors more generally for their work; and to offer tips and strategies to help students through their own projects.