VIDEO INTERVIEWS
November 2021, Donna Jo gave the keynote address at the launch of the United Nations collection of feminist fairy tales AWAKE NOT SLEEPING, here. They keynote begins around -1:45 and runs for 10 minutes. She also moderates a session on why fairy tales are important later in this video.
July 2020, as part of a panel in the Fairytale and Folklore Festival of the Waseca-Le Sueur Regional Library System of Minnesota, with the author Adam Gidwitz, here
October 2012 about DJN’s fellowship at Trinity College Dublin in summer 2012, here
31 March 2012 TEDx talk on why children need to read about terrible things, here
Spring 2011 many readers (including DJN) reading LITTLE RED RIDING HOOD, here.
30 November 2007 the Philoctetes Center Roundtable on Fairytales, here
PODCAST and RADIO INTERVIEWS
November 2021 about the launch of the United Nations collection of feminist fairy tales AWAKE NOT SLEEPING on UN Women Europe and Central Asia podcast Generations Talk Gender, here
Winter 2018-19 discussion about ALLIGATOR BAYOU with children from New Orleans, here
Spring 2017 about FISH GIRL with DJN and David Wiesner, here
Fall 2014 about STORM, here
TRANSCRIPTS OF INTERVIEWS
Autumn 2023 a short presentation about WHEN NIGHT FALLS and a list of Donna Jo’s three favorite books she read in 2023 with reasons why they are her favorites, here
Autumn 2021 a short presentation about IN A FLASH and a list of Donna Jo’s five favorite books on deaf culture with reasons why they are her favorites, here
Spring 2019 about nature, the classics and FISH GIRL, here
Summer 2018 about Donna Jo’s love of Venice, here
Autumn 2017 an essay in response to the question: Why do you write mythological tales? here
Spring 2017 about FISH GIRL with DJN and David Wiesner, here and here
May 2017 on teaching math through storybooks, here
2015 about what DJN reads and why, here
2015 about general issues in writing, here
Winter 2014 about what DJN was reading after writing HIDDEN, here
TRANSCRIPTS OF GENERAL INTERVIEWS
2012, 2009, 2007