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Maria Magdalene Tatar (born May 13, 1945) is an American academic whose expertise lies in children's literature, German literature, and folklore. 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.




Biography


Maria Tatar was born in Pressath, Germany. Her family emigrated from Hungary to the United States in the 1950s when she was a child.
She grew up in Highland Park, Illinois and graduated from Highland Park High School in 1963.
Tatar earned an undergraduate degree from Denison University and a doctoral degree from Princeton University. In 1971, after finishing her doctorate at Princeton University, Tatar joined the faculty of Harvard University. She received tenure in 1978. She lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts.




Selected works


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, 1987) ISBN 978-0-691-06722-3
Off With Their Heads! Fairy Tales and the Culture of Childhood (Princeton, 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, 2004) ISBN 0-393-05848-4
The Annotated Hans Christian Andersen (W.W. Norton, 2008) ISBN 978-0-393-06081-2
Enchanted Hunters: The Power of Stories in Childhood (W.W. Norton, April 2009) 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, 2011) ISBN 978-0-393-06600-5
The Annotated African American Folktales, ed. with Henry Louis Gates Jr., (Liveright-W.W. Norton, 2017), ISBN 0-87140-753-1
The Fairest of Them All: Snow White and 21 Tales of Mothers and Daughters, (Harvard University Press, 2020) ISBN 978-0-674-238-602
The Heroine with 1001 Faces (Liveright, 2021), ISBN 978-1-631-49881-7




References






External links


Maria Tatar at Harvard University
Breezes from Wonderland – Tatar's blog on storytelling, folklore, and children's literature
Tatar discusses Enchanted Hunters ( Video on YouTube, 2008)
"Tatar Discusses Development of Fairy Tales", The Harvard Crimson (April 8, 2012)
Maria Tatar at Library of Congress, with 20 library catalog records

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