Anatoly Liberman

Specialties

• Folklore
• General linguistics
• Germanic philology
• Historical phonology and the origin of words
• Languages and literature of the Middle Ages
• Scandinavian mythology
• Poetic translation
• Literary criticism
• Etymology
• Creative witing
• Russian literature
• English literature

Publications

• Liberman, Anatoly. "Word Health." (1994).
• Liberman, Anatoly. Vladimir Propp, Theory and History of Folklore. University of Minnesota Press, 1984.
• Liberman, Anatoly. Stefan Einarsson, Studies in Germanic Philology. Helmut Buske (Hamburg), 1986.
• Liberman, Anatoly. On the Heights of Creation: The Lyrics of Fedor Tyutchev. JAI Press, 1993.
• Liberman, Anatoly. N.S. Trubetzkoy, The Legacy of Genghis Khan and Other Essays on Russian Identity. University of Michigan, 1991.
• Liberman, Anatoly. N. S. Trubetzkoy, Writings on Literature. University of Minnesota Press, 1990.
• Liberman, Anatoly, Marvin Taylor. N. S. Trubetzkoy, Studies in General Linguistics and Language Structure. Duke University Press, 2001.
• Liberman, Anatoly. Germanic Accentology, Volume I. University of Minnesota Press, 1982.
• Liberman, Anatoly. Mikhail Lermontov, Major Poetical Works. University of Minnesota Press, 1983.
• Liberman, Anatoly. An Analytic Dictionary of English Etymology: An Introduction . University of Minnesota Press, 2008.
• Liberman, Anatoly. A Bibliography of English Etymology. University of Minnesota Press, 2010.
• Etymology for Everyone: Word Origins… and How We Know Them. Oxford University Press, Liberman, Anatoly, 2005.
• A Disappearing Past [Translation of Pavel Zhdanov's book Ischezaiushchee proshloe]. Magadan: Oxotnik. 2019.
• Vil'am Shekspir [William Shakespeare], Sonety [Sonnets] (All 154 sonnets, translated, annotated, and with an introduction.) Moscow; Iazyki slavianskoi kul'tury, 2015.
• In Prayer and Laughter: Essays on Medieval Scandinavian and Germanic Mythology, Literature, and Culture. Mscow: Paleograph Press, 2016.
• The Saga Mind and the Beginnings of Icelandic Prose. Lewiston, Lampeter:The Edwin Mellen Press, 2018.

Activities

Awards

• Fulbright Scholar Award, 1988
• College of Liberal Arts Scholars of the College, University of Minnesota, 1986
• McKnight Research Award, 1994 - 1996
• Numerous feature articles inside and outside of the Twin Cities area
• VERBATIM-Dictionary Society of North America award for the best project of the year, 1996
• Two NEH Summer Seminars, 1980 and 1991
• Prize for the best book in Folklore, 1985
• NEH Summer Scholarship, 1995
• Fesler-Lampert Professorship in the Humanities, 1999 - 2002
• Fellowship at Clare Hall, Cambridge University, Fall 1984
• An international festschift GERMANIC STUDIES IN HONOR OF ANATOLY LIBERMAN, 1997
• American-Scandinavian Foundation Scholarship for study in Iceland, Summer 1979
• Bush Fellowship, Fall 1995 - Spring 1996
• Guggenheim Fellowship, Fall 1982 - Spring 1983
• American Council of Learned Societies, 2001 - 2002
• Award for Outstanding Contributions to Graduate and Professional Teaching, 2011
• MLA Prize for a Distinguished Bibliography, 2011

Courses

• Old Saxon
• Old High German
• Middle Dutch
• German Folklore
• Scandinavian Myths
• The History of the German Language
• Old Norse
• German Medieval Literature
• Icelandic Saga
• German Dialects