Nationality USA | Name Maria Tatar | |
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Occupation professor, author, academic Known for books on mythology and folklore Spouse(s) Stephen A. Schuker (divorced 1989) Awards Guggenheim Fellowship for Humanities, US & Canada Nominations Locus Award for Best Non-Fiction, Mythopoeic Scholarship Award in Myth and Fantasy Studies Books The Annotated Classic F, The Annotated Brothers, Off with Their Heads!: F, Enchanted Hunters: The Pow, Lustmord: Sexual Murder in Similar People Wilhelm Grimm, Jacob Grimm, Hans Christian Andersen | ||
Maria tatar the big bad wolf reconsidered
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.
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- Maria tatar the big bad wolf reconsidered
- Maria tatar 2014 lowell lecture series gateway to reading boston public libary
- Early life and education
- Career
- Personal life
- Selected works
- References
Maria tatar 2014 lowell lecture series gateway to reading boston public libary
Early life and education
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.
Career
In 1971, after finishing her doctorate at Princeton University, Tatar joined the faculty of Harvard University. She received tenure in 1978.
Personal life
She lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts.