Maria Tatar

Harvard College Professor
and John L. Loeb Professor of Germanic Languages and Literatures

Chair of Folklore & Mythology

Warren House, Room 104

617-496-4198

tatar@fas.harvard.edu

Office Hours:

Tuesday 12:00 - 2:00pm

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Professor Tatar received her Ph.D. from Princeton University in 1971 and has taught at Harvard since then. Her teaching and research interests include Weimar Germany, German romanticism, folklore, children's literature, and cultural studies.

The author of books on the Brothers Grimm, on fairy tales (The Hard Facts of the Grimms' Fairy Tales and Off with Their Heads!), and on the cultural impact of mesmerist theories and practices of nineteenth- and twentieth-century literature, she has also authored Lustmord, which explores the theme of sexual violence in the literature, film, and art of the Weimar period in Germany.

She is currently at work on a book about the Bluebeard tale. In addition, she has edited an anthology of fairy tales published as a Norton Critical Edition.

COURSES :

[German 126. The Brothers Grimm and Their Cultural Legacy]
Catalog Number: 6162

Literature and Arts A-18. Fairy Tales, Children’s Literature, and the Construction of Childhood
Catalog Number: 7478

Department of Germanic Languages and Literatures