Maria Tatar

Maria Tatar is an American academic whose expertise lies in children's literature, German literature, and folklore.^[1][2] Tatar is the John L. Loeb Professor of Germanic Languages and Literatures, and Chair of Folklore & Mythology at Harvard University.^[2] She lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts.^[3]

Books

• Spellbound: Studies on Mesmerism and Literature Princeton University Press 1978 ISBN 9780691063775
• The Hard Facts of the Grimms' Fairy Tales. Princeton University Press 1987 ISBN 9780691067223
• Off With Their Heads! Fairy Tales and the Culture of Childhood. Princeton University Press 1993 ISBN 9780691069432
• The Annotated Classic Fairy Tales (W. W. Norton & Company 2002) ISBN 9780393051636
• The Annotated Brothers Grimm (W. W. Norton & Company 2004)ISBN 0393058484
• The Annotated Hans Christian Andersen (W.W. Norton & Company 2008) ISBN 9780393060812
• Enchanted Hunters: The Power of Stories in Childhood (April 2009, W. W. Norton & Company)^[4] ISBN 9780393066012
• 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 9780393066005

References

1. ^ AS. Byatt (2009-10-12). "Love in fairytales". Guardian. http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2009/oct/12/fairytales-byatt-abstract-love. 
2. ^ ^{a b} Beth Potier (2003-04-10). "Once Upon a Time ...:". Harvard University Gazette. http://www.news.harvard.edu/gazette/2003/04.10/18-tatar.html. 
3. ^ Cantrell, Cindy (2009-04-27). "In praise of bedtime stories". Boston Globe. http://www.boston.com/yourtown/news/newton/2009/04/in_praise_of_bedtime_stories.html. 
4. ^ AS. Byatt (2009-11-07). "Enchanted Hunters: The Power of Stories in Childhood by Maria Tatar". Guardian. http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2009/nov/07/enchanted-stories-byatt-book-review. 

External links

• Harvard page
• "Breezes from Wonderland", her blog
• Video: Maria Tatar discusses her book Enchanted Hunters

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