Cinderella Tellings Stories by students of WLLC:2473, “Cinderella” taught by Newell Ann Van Auken Spring 2023, The University of Iowa Over the course of the spring semester, the students in “Cinderella” read nearly fifty tellings of the Cinderella story from around the world, starting from the earliest recorded version, written in Chinese in the ninth century. We read folktellings from Vietnam, Tibet, China, Iraq, Brazil, Norway, Ireland, and elsewhere, fairy tales penned by Charles Perrault, the Brothers Grimm, Madame d’Aulnoy, and