Cristina Bacchilega’s most recent book Legendary Hawai‘i and the Politics of Place: Tradition, Translation, and Tourism came out in 2007 with the University of Pennsylvania Press.

The author of Postmodern Fairy Tales: Gender and Narrative Strategies and the co-editor of Angela Carter and the Fairy Tale, she has published on Margaret Atwood, Angela Carter, Italo Calvino, Robert Coover, Nalo Hopkinson, Maxine Hong Kingston, Dacia Maraini, Arundhati Roy, Salman Rushdie, and fairy tales in Hawai`i. With historian Noelani Arista and Sahoa Fukushima, she has also studied nineteenth-century translations of The Arabian Nights into Hawaiian.

Bacchilega is the review editor of Marvels & Tales: Journal of Fairy-Tale Studie; editorial board member for two other international journals, Fabula: Journal of Folktale Studies (Germany) and Foklore (UK); and Vice-President for North America of the International Society for Folk Narrative Research.

She continues to write about contemporary fairy-tale fiction and to research the publication of Hawaiian mo‘olelo as English-language “legends.”

Her second term as Department Chair expired in July 2007.

Areas of Interest
Fairy-tale studies, folklore and literature, gender and fairy tales, translation studies, narratology, feminist theory and literature, folkloristics and colonialism, Hawaiian mo‘olelo in translation

See http://www.english.hawaii.edu/fields/oraltraditions.html for “Oral Traditions, Folklore, and Cultural Studies” as a field in our Department.

Education
BA, University of Rome (Italy)
MA, PhD, State University of New York at Binghamton

Awards
Chicago Folklore Prize, 2008
Guggenheim Fellow, 2001
Board of Regents' Award for Excellence in Teaching, 1991
College of Languages, Linguistics and Literature Excellence in Teaching Award, 1988