This is the homepage of Jessica Tiffin. I’m a student advisor and part-time lecturer and researcher 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, the Victorians, and internet culture. My doctorate, entitled “Marvellous geometry: narrative and metafiction in modern fairy tale”, was published by Wayne State University Press in their Fairy Tale Series in 2009. I am currently teaching the erotic in vampire texts and in internet culture, and supervising postgraduate theses in fairy tale and other genre topics.
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, folkloric elements in Studio Ghibli films, and self-consciousness in the Edwardian fairy tales of E. Nesbit.
Marvelous Geometry: Narrative and Metafiction in Modern Fairy Tale, (Fairy-tale Studies). Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 2009.