Maria Tatar

Maria Tatar
Maria Tatar in 2018
Born1945 (age 78–79)
Pressath, Germany[1]
NationalityAmerican
CitizenshipUS (naturalized 1956)[1]
Alma mater
Occupation(s)Academic, writer
Known forBooks on mythology and folklore
Spouse
Stephen A. Schuker
(div. 1989)
ChildrenLauren 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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  1. ^ a b c Cite error: The named reference BNF was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  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]
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  4. ^ A. S. Byatt (October 12, 2009). "Love in fairytales". The Guardian.
  5. ^ a b 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.

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