#  Maria Tatar has spent her career tracing evolution of folk, fairy tales, explaining why they still matter. 

 





October 05, 2026

 

 

Maria Tatar, John L. Loeb Research Professor of Germanic Languages and Literatures and of Folklore and Mythology, Emerita, was featured by the Harvard News Office, in the September 25 Gazette. [Read the profile here](https://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2026/09/helping-us-make-our-way-through-a-world-that-can-feel-broken/).



 

 

 



 

 

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