About the Professor

Professor Jacquilyn Weeks Predoctoral Teaching Fellow Gender Studies University of Notre Dame

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Jacquilyn Weeks is a Mellon Fellow and a Ph.D candidate in English with a graduate minor in Gender Studies. Her dissertation The Whole Enchanted String: Fairy Tales in 20c. British Women’s Poetry describes the way in which a century of female poets have made use of the fairy tale genre as an empowering imaginative space in which to “make new myths,” reframe the possibilities of imagination, and speak about trauma and exclusion, the sense of being walled up alive in glass and towers. In the last four years, Weeks has been awarded fourteen travel and research grants, and has presented conference papers on three continents. In 2008, she won the Kenneth Davis Award for Folklore Studies, and she currently holds a Gender Studies Predoctoral Teaching Fellowship at the University of Notre Dame where she is acting as the Study Abroad and Academic Internship Advisor for undergraduate Gender Studies majors and minors.