Maria Tatar

Maria Tatar
Maria Tatar in 2018
Born	1945 (age 79–80) Pressath, Germany [1]
Citizenship	US (naturalized 1956) [1]
Alma mater	Denison (B.A., 1967) [2] Princeton (Ph.D., 1971)
Occupations	Academic, writer
Known for	Books on mythology and folklore
Spouse	Stephen A. Schuker ​ (div. 1989)​
Children	Lauren Schuker (daughter) Daniel Schuker (son) [3]

Maria Magdalene Tatar (born May 13, 1945) ^[1] 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] [6]}

Louis-Léopold Boilly's And the Ogre Ate Him Up!, used in Maria Tatar's Enchanted Hunters: The Power of Stories in Childhood

Biography

Maria Tatar was born in Pressath, Germany. ^[1] Her family emigrated from Hungary to the United States in the 1950s when she was a child. ^[7]

She grew up 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] [8]} In 1971, after finishing her doctorate at Princeton University, Tatar joined the faculty of Harvard University. She received tenure in 1978. ^[3] She lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

Selected works

• "Mesmerism, Madness, and Death in E. T. A. Hoffmann's "Der goldne Topf." Studies in Romanticism , Vol. 14, No. 4 (Fall, 1975), pp. 365-389. ISSN 0039-3762 <http://www.jstor.org/stable/25599984>
• 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) ^[9] 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

1. "Notice de personne: Tatar, Maria (1945–....)". Catalogue. National Library of France (bnf.fr). Retrieved 2017-05-11.
2. "Spellbound: Fairy tale expert Maria Tatar '67 on how some of the world's oldest stories help us navigate modern life" Archived 2014-05-02 at the Wayback Machine . Denison Magazine. Denison University. Spring 2014.
3. Craig Lambert (November–December 2007). "The Horror and Beauty". Harvard Magazine.
4. A. S. Byatt (October 12, 2009). "Love in fairytales". The Guardian.
5. Beth Potier (April 10, 2003). "Once Upon a Time ..." Harvard University Gazette.
6. Tatar, Maria (20 April 2009). Reading Them To Sleep, Storytelling and The Invention of Bedtime Reading. pp. 60–61. ISBN   978-0-393-24004-7 . Retrieved May 15, 2017.
7. Amy Sutherland (October 27, 2012). "Maria Tatar: Professor and fairy-tale expert". The Boston Globe.
8. Cindy Cantrell (April 27, 2009). "In praise of bedtime stories". The Boston Globe .
9. A. S. Byatt (November 7, 2009). "Enchanted Hunters: The Power of Stories in Childhood by Maria Tatar". The Guardian.

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 20library catalog records