Elizabeth Dearnley

Elizabeth Dearnley is a folklorist, artist and Visiting Research Fellow at the Institute of English Studies within the School of Advanced Study, University of London. Her work explores eerie landscapes, fairy tales and folk horror, and she has curated several projects delving into these fields, including immersive 1940s Red Riding Hood retelling Big Teeth and the Freud Museum London's uncanny restaging of E. T. A. Hoffmann's The Sandman. Her first book, Translators and their Prologues in Medieval England, was published in 2016, and her writing has appeared in the Times Literary Supplement, the Guardian, the White Review and elsewhere. She is currently writing a book about the relationship between forests and fairy tales.