Maria Tatar














































Maria Tatar
Born 1945 (age 73–74)
Pressath, Germany[1]
Residence Cambridge, Massachusetts
Nationality American
Citizenship US (naturalized 1956)[1]
Alma mater
Denison University (B.A., 1967)[2]
Princeton University (Ph.D., 1971)
Occupation Academic, writer
Known for Books on mythology and folklore
Home town Highland Park, Illinois
Spouse(s) Stephen A. Schuker (divorced 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]





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


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Contents






  • 1 Early life and education


  • 2 Career


  • 3 Personal life


  • 4 Selected works


  • 5 References


  • 6 External links





Early life and education


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]



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.



Selected works




  • Spellbound: Studies on Mesmerism and Literature (Princeton University Press, 1978) .mw-parser-output cite.citation{font-style:inherit}.mw-parser-output q{quotes:"""""""'""'"}.mw-parser-output code.cs1-code{color:inherit;background:inherit;border:inherit;padding:inherit}.mw-parser-output .cs1-lock-free a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/65/Lock-green.svg/9px-Lock-green.svg.png")no-repeat;background-position:right .1em center}.mw-parser-output .cs1-lock-limited a,.mw-parser-output .cs1-lock-registration a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d6/Lock-gray-alt-2.svg/9px-Lock-gray-alt-2.svg.png")no-repeat;background-position:right .1em center}.mw-parser-output .cs1-lock-subscription a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/aa/Lock-red-alt-2.svg/9px-Lock-red-alt-2.svg.png")no-repeat;background-position:right .1em center}.mw-parser-output .cs1-subscription,.mw-parser-output .cs1-registration{color:#555}.mw-parser-output .cs1-subscription span,.mw-parser-output .cs1-registration span{border-bottom:1px dotted;cursor:help}.mw-parser-output .cs1-hidden-error{display:none;font-size:100%}.mw-parser-output .cs1-visible-error{font-size:100%}.mw-parser-output .cs1-subscription,.mw-parser-output .cs1-registration,.mw-parser-output .cs1-format{font-size:95%}.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-left,.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-wl-left{padding-left:0.2em}.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-right,.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-wl-right{padding-right:0.2em}
    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 0393058484


  • 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 0871407531



References





  1. ^ abcd
    "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.[dead link]


  3. ^ abcd Craig Lambert (November–December 2007). "The Horror and Beauty". Harvard Magazine.


  4. ^ A. S. Byatt (October 12, 2009). "Love in fairytales". The Guardian.


  5. ^ ab Beth Potier (April 10, 2003). "Once Upon a Time ..." Harvard University Gazette.


  6. ^ "Reading Them To Sleep, Storytelling and The Invention of Bedtime Reading". pp. 60–61. 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 Authorities, with 20 catalog records











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