Maria Tatar

Our keynote speaker and fellow judge for the critical papers category is the John L. Loeb Professor of Germanic Languages and Literatures at Harvard University. She chairs the Program in Folklore and Mythology there, and teaches courses in German Studies, Folklore, and Children’s Literature.

Her publications include Off with Their Heads! Fairy Tales and the Culture of Childhood (1992), The Classic Fairy Tales (1999), The Annotated Brothers Grimm (2004), The Annotated Hans Christian Andersen (2007), and this year’s much-anticipated Enchanted Hunters: The Power of Stories in Childhood (2009).

Learn more at http://people.fas.harvard.edu/~tatar/Maria_Tatar/About_Me.html