Professor Rori Bloom was awarded a Publication Subvention Grant for her monograph Making the Marvelous: Marie-Catherine d’Aulnoy, Henriette-Julie de Murat and the Literary Representation of the Decorative Arts, which has been published with University of Nebraska Press in 2022. With the publication of Making the Marvelous, Professor Bloom contributes to the fields of fairy tale studies, French literary studies but also studies of the decorative arts in France. The book moves away from thematic concerns often analyzed in women’s writing — love, marriage— to concentrate on the authors’ aesthetic sophistication and formal experimentation. It demonstrates that these authors’ works redefine the marvelous not as magical but as manmade in order to argue that their attitude toward the supernatural is skeptical and surprisingly modern.