Maria Tatar

Maria Magdalene Tatar 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

"Mesmerism, Madness, and Death in E. T. A. Hoffmann's "Der goldne Topf." Studies in Romanticism, Vol. 14, No. 4, pp. 365-389. ISSN 0039-3762
Spellbound: Studies on Mesmerism and Literature
The Hard Facts of the Grimms' Fairy Tales
Off With Their Heads! Fairy Tales and the Culture of Childhood
The Annotated Classic Fairy Tales
The Annotated Brothers Grimm
The Annotated Hans Christian Andersen
Enchanted Hunters: The Power of Stories in Childhood
"From Bookworms to Enchanted Hunters: Why Children Read" ISSN 0021-8510
The Annotated Peter Pan, ed.,
The Annotated African American Folktales, ed. with Henry Louis Gates Jr.,,
The Fairest of Them All: Snow White and 21 Tales of Mothers and Daughters,
The Heroine with 1001 Faces,