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Ruth B. Bottigheimer
Ruth B. Bottigheimer is a literary scholar, folklorist, and author. Currently Research Professor in the Department of English at Stony Brook University, State University of New York she specializes in European fairy tales and British children’s literature. She has also researched and published on the history of illustration, the religious socialization of children through edited Bible narratives, and stories told by Hannā Diyāb to Antoine Galland and included in his French edition of the Arabian Nights. She “has been hailed as one of America’s foremost Grimm scholars”.
Bottigheimer earned her doctorate in German Literature and Language in 1981 through Stony Brook University, State University of New York. She earned a B.A. (Honors) in German Literature and Medieval History and an M.A. in German Literature at the University of California, Berkeley. She also attended Wellesley College, LMU Munich, and the University College London.
In addition to her position at Stony Brook University, Bottigheimer has also taught at Hollins University, the University of Innsbruck, the University of Vienna, Göttingen University, and Princeton University. She is a member of numerous professional organizations including the International Society for Folk Narrative Research, Bruder Grimm Gesellschaft, and the Children’s Literature Association.
The Stony Brook University website states that “[Bottigheimer’s] work crosses disciplinary boundaries, contextualizing genres in their socio-historical cultures of origin, assessing them in terms of publishing history parameters, and utilizing linguistics in discourse analysis”.
A Fulbright Scholar, Bottigheimer is a life fellow of Clare Hall, Cambridge and was also a visiting fellow at Magdalen College, Oxford. In 2019, Bottigheimer was awarded the Thuringian Fairy Tale and Legend Prize.
Bottigheimer’s languages of research include English, German, French, and occasionally Italian and Spanish.
Bottigheimer’s conclusions about the literary history of fairy tales, published in her 2009 book Fairy Tales: A New History, have created controversy among folklore scholars. At both the 2005 congress of the International Society for Folk Narrative Research in Estonia and the 2006 meeting of the American Folklore Society in Milwaukee, Bottigheimer’s claims—particularly the claim that the fairy tale “template” was originally conceived of by the 16th-century Italian writer Giovan Francesco Straparola—were repeatedly and “uproar[iously]” questioned by “unpersuaded” folklorists. Folklorists Dan Ben-Amos, Francisco Vaz da Silva, and Jan M. Ziolkowski each produced papers responding to Bottigheimer’s claims that appeared in the Journal of American Folklore in 2010. A response from Bottigheimer was published in the same issue.
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Ruth B. Bottigheimer
Ruth B. Bottigheimer is a literary scholar, folklorist, and author. Currently Research Professor in the Department of English at Stony Brook University, State University of New York she specializes in European fairy tales and British children’s literature. She has also researched and published on the history of illustration, the religious socialization of children through edited Bible narratives, and stories told by Hannā Diyāb to Antoine Galland and included in his French edition of the Arabian Nights. She “has been hailed as one of America’s foremost Grimm scholars”.
Bottigheimer earned her doctorate in German Literature and Language in 1981 through Stony Brook University, State University of New York. She earned a B.A. (Honors) in German Literature and Medieval History and an M.A. in German Literature at the University of California, Berkeley. She also attended Wellesley College, LMU Munich, and the University College London.
In addition to her position at Stony Brook University, Bottigheimer has also taught at Hollins University, the University of Innsbruck, the University of Vienna, Göttingen University, and Princeton University. She is a member of numerous professional organizations including the International Society for Folk Narrative Research, Bruder Grimm Gesellschaft, and the Children’s Literature Association.
The Stony Brook University website states that “[Bottigheimer’s] work crosses disciplinary boundaries, contextualizing genres in their socio-historical cultures of origin, assessing them in terms of publishing history parameters, and utilizing linguistics in discourse analysis”.
A Fulbright Scholar, Bottigheimer is a life fellow of Clare Hall, Cambridge and was also a visiting fellow at Magdalen College, Oxford. In 2019, Bottigheimer was awarded the Thuringian Fairy Tale and Legend Prize.
Bottigheimer’s languages of research include English, German, French, and occasionally Italian and Spanish.
Bottigheimer’s conclusions about the literary history of fairy tales, published in her 2009 book Fairy Tales: A New History, have created controversy among folklore scholars. At both the 2005 congress of the International Society for Folk Narrative Research in Estonia and the 2006 meeting of the American Folklore Society in Milwaukee, Bottigheimer’s claims—particularly the claim that the fairy tale “template” was originally conceived of by the 16th-century Italian writer Giovan Francesco Straparola—were repeatedly and “uproar[iously]” questioned by “unpersuaded” folklorists. Folklorists Dan Ben-Amos, Francisco Vaz da Silva, and Jan M. Ziolkowski each produced papers responding to Bottigheimer’s claims that appeared in the Journal of American Folklore in 2010. A response from Bottigheimer was published in the same issue.
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