Kathryn Starnes is a Senior Lecturer in International Relations at Manchester Metropolitan University where she has worked since 2016. She completed a PhD at The University of Manchester in International Relations. Her book, Fairy Tales and International Relations: A Folklorist Reading of International Relations Textbooks introduces a novel folklorist approach to engaging with the canon to understand how marginalising practices are embedded in how we recount stories about the discipline. She has also recently published “The Case for Creative Folklore in Pedagogical Practice” and “Framing the Neoliberal Canon: Resisting the Market Myth via Literary Enquiry”.