Harvard College
Professor
and John L. Loeb Professor of Germanic Languages and Literatures
Dean for the Humanities
Barker Center, Room 353
617-496-4198
Office Hours:
Monday 11:00am - 12:00pm
Monday 1:00pm - 2:00pm
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.
[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