#  Read Senior Fellow Maria Tatar's interview in the Harvard Gazette 

 





September 30, 2026

 

 

   ![Photo of Senior Fellow Maria Tatar](/sites/g/files/omnuum12196/files/styles/hwp_1_1__720x720_scale/public/2026-09/080826_Maria_Tatar_04.jpg%20copy.jpg?itok=mtgT7C3d) 

 

Senior Fellow [Maria Tatar](https://german.fas.harvard.edu/people/maria-tatar), one of the world’s foremost scholars on children’s literature, folklore, and fairy tales, was interviewed at length by the [*Harvard Gazette*](https://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2026/09/helping-us-make-our-way-through-a-world-that-can-feel-broken/?utm_source=SilverpopMailing&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Daily%20Gazette%2020260928%20(1)&spMailingID=36379017&spUserID=NDk2OTUwNjM5OTMxS0&spJobID=3224360738&spReportId=MzIyNDM2MDczOAS2). Tatar is the John L. Loeb Research Professor of Germanic Languages and Literatures and of Folklore and Mythology, Emerita, and has served as a Senior Fellow since 2010.

*Photo by Stephanie Mitchell/Harvard Staff Photographer*



 

 

 



 

 

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