Education and Positions
Jack Zipes completed a B.A. in Political Science (1959), and a M.A. in English and Comparative Literature at Columbia University, (1960). From there, Zipes studied at the University of Munich in 1962 and the University of Tübingen in 1963. He completed a PhD in comparative literature at Columbia University in 1965. Zipes taught at various institutions before heading the Department of German, Scandinavian, and Dutch at the University of Minnesota. He has translated the complete fairy tales of the Brothers Grimm.
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