Maria Tatar

Maria Tatar (born 1945) is an American academic whose expertise lies in children's literature, German literature, and folklore.^[4][5] She is the John L. Loeb Professor of Germanic Languages and Literatures, and Chair of the Committee on Degrees in Folklore and Mythology at Harvard University.^[5]

Early life and Education

Maria Tatar was born in Hungary and her family immigrated to the United States in the 1950s when she was a child.^[6]

She grew up in in Highland Park, Illinois and graduated from Highland Park High School in 1963.^[3]

Tatar earned an undergraduate degree from Denison University and a doctoral degree from Princeton University.^[3][7]

Career

In 1971, after finishing her doctorate at Princeton University, Tatar joined the faculty of Harvard University. She received tenure in 1978.^[3]

Personal life

She lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

Books

• Spellbound: Studies on Mesmerism and Literature Princeton University Press 1978 ISBN 978-0-691-06377-5
• The Hard Facts of the Grimms' Fairy Tales. Princeton University Press 1987 ISBN 978-0-691-06722-3
• Off With Their Heads! Fairy Tales and the Culture of Childhood. Princeton University Press 1993 ISBN 978-0-691-06943-2
• The Annotated Classic Fairy Tales (W. W. Norton & Company 2002) ISBN 978-0-393-05163-6
• The Annotated Brothers Grimm (W. W. Norton & Company 2004) ISBN 0393058484
• The Annotated Hans Christian Andersen (W.W. Norton & Company 2008) ISBN 978-0-393-06081-2
• Enchanted Hunters: The Power of Stories in Childhood (April 2009, W. W. Norton & Company)^[8] ISBN 978-0-393-06601-2
• From Bookworms to Enchanted Hunters: Why Children Read (Journal of Aesthetic Education, Summer 2009 vol.43, no.2, p.19-36.) ISSN 0021-8510
• The Annotated Peter Pan, ed., (W. W. Norton & Company 2011) ISBN 978-0-393-06600-5

References

External links

• Harvard page
• "Breezes from Wonderland", her blog
• Video: Maria Tatar discusses her book Enchanted Hunters
• Tatar Discusses Development of Fairy Tales