Professor of
German at the
University of
Minnesota. He's best well known for his
scholarship on and
translations of
fairy (however you spell them) tales. Worth a particular
note is his work on the
idea that fairy tales form the first
acute experience of
subversion for youngins and his subsequent embracing of fairy tales as
subversive in and of themselves both on an
individual level and in the
context of
society.
If you're going to read Zipes, you can't get away without reading these title in particular: