Jeana Jorgensen

Biographic Data

ID3789649
NAMEJeana Jorgensen
GIVEN NAMESJeana
FAMILY NAMEJorgensen
SIGNATUREJORGENSEN J
AFFILIATIONSButler University
VERIFIEDNo
TOTAL WORKS9
TOTAL CITATIONS4
AUTHOR COUNT9
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR2012
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2025
H-INDEX1

  • Vigilante Feminists and Agents of Destiny: Violence, Empowerment, and the Teenage Super/heroine by Laura Mattoon D’Amore (review)

    Jeana JorgensenARTICLEMarvels & Tales2025

  • Cinderella’s Body. A Quantitative Approach to Gender, Embodiment, and Folktale Plots

    Jeana JorgensenARTICLEFabula2023

    This study utilizes quantitative methods to investigate feminist claims about beauty in a series of ATU 510A Cinderella texts. Youth and beauty are found to be linked, and structurally, the protagonist’s encounter with the donor figure does not further beautify her but rather gives her the tools for social advancement. Articulating links between gender, beauty, and success matters in both tale worlds and the real world given not only the pressure…

  • Fairy Tales in Contemporary American Culture: How We Hate to Love Them

    Jeana JorgensenARTICLEJournal of American Folklore2023

    Kate Christine Moore Koppy's Fairy Tales in Contemporary American Culture: How We Hate to Love Them starts with the intriguing premise that fairy tales have become a sort of “secular scripture” in recent years, replacing biblical scripture as a significant, meaning-laden set of intertexts. As secular scripture, fairy tales maintain and disseminate cultural values, which for many Americans, includes the love affair with rags-to-riches stories.The …

  • The Thorns of Trauma: Torture, Aftermath, and Healing in Contemporary Fairy-Tale Literature

    Open AccessJeana JorgensenARTICLEHumanities2021

    While classical fairy tales do not portray much depth of suffering, many contemporary fairy-tale retellings explore trauma and its aftermath in great detail. This article analyzes depictions of trauma in fairy tales, utilizing as a primary case study the “Beauty and the Beast” retelling A Court of Thorns and Roses by Sarah J. Maas, arguing that this text provides a scientifically accurate representation of trauma and its aftermath, thereby articu…

  • A Tale of Two Trans Men: Transmasculine Identity and Trauma in Two Fairy-Tale Retellings

    Open AccessJeana JorgensenARTICLEOpen Cultural Studies2021

    Transgender identities in fairy tale retellings are rare, but can reveal much about gender fluidity. Helen Oyeyemi’s novel Boy, Snow, Bird conflates transgender identities with mirrored falsehoods and fairy-tale spells, pathologizing a trauma victim who turns out to also become an abuser, while Gabriel Vidrine’s novella “A Pair of Raven Wings” depicts a queer transgender man with dignity, making it clear that the trauma he suffers is at the hands…

  • The Most Beautiful of All: A Quantitative Approach to Fairy-Tale Femininity

    Jeana JorgensenARTICLEJournal of American Folklore2019Cited by: 4References: 33

    Feminist folklorists have long asserted that women's bodies are represented in fairy tales differently than men's bodies, in normative and sexist ways. By using computational approaches to analyze a corpus of canonical fairy tales, I assess these claims and establish that women's bodies are depicted in distinctive ways in fairy tales. This finding is important for scholars interested in fairy-tale studies, gender studies, and computational approa…

  • Quantifying the Grimm Corpus: Transgressive and Transformative Bodies in the Grimms' Fairy Tales

    Jeana JorgensenARTICLEMarvels & Tales2014References: 3

    What do bodies mean in fairy tales? Donald Haase’s engagement with the Grimms’ fairy tales has offered some hints, ranging from his attention to feminist scholarship on the Grimms to his multifaceted review of recent Grimm scholarship that addresses various meanings of bodies in the language and translation of their tales. Inspired by Haase’s work and encouragement, I created a database that lists every mention or description of a body in the Gri…

  • Marvelous Transformations: An Anthology of Fairy Tales and Contemporary Critical PerspectivesThe Teller's Tale: Lives of the Classic Fairy Tale Writers

    Jeana JorgensenARTICLEJournal of American Folklore2014

    Book Review| October 01 2014 Marvelous Transformations: An Anthology of Fairy Tales and Contemporary Critical PerspectivesThe Teller’s Tale: Lives of the Classic Fairy Tale Writers Marvelous Transformations: An Anthology of Fairy Tales and Contemporary Critical Perspectives. Ed. Christine A. Jones and Jennifer Schacker. (Peterborough, ON: Broadview Press, 2013. Pp. 580, introduction, notes on contributors, sources.).The Teller’s Tale: Lives of th…

  • Fairy Tales: A New History

    Jeana JorgensenARTICLEJournal of American Folklore2012

    Fairy Tales: A New History. By Ruth B. Bottigheimer. (Albany: State University of New York Press, 2009. Pp. vii + 152, notes, works cited, index.)In Fairy Tales: A New History, Ruth Bottigheimer expands her recent research on fairytale origins, including her 2002 book Fairy Godfather: Straparola, Venice, and Fairy Tale Tradition and her presentations on literary origins of fairy tales at 2005 Congress of International Society for Folk Narrative R…