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Anatoly Liberman

Anatoly Liberman

[email protected]
612-625-5594
German, Nordic, Slavic & Dutch
323A Folwell Hall

9 Pleasant St SE
Minneapolis, MN 55455

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German, Nordic, Slavic & Dutch
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Specialties
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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
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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
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Activities

Professional

  • Reviewer: The New Review, New York. 1997 - present
  • Editorial Board Member: five international linguistic and literary journals. 1990 - present
  • Executive Board Member: Dictionary Society of North America. 2001 - 2003

Outreach

  • Interviews: BBC, Voice of America, Chicago Tribune, Star Tribune, The History Channel and Culture, a television station broadcasting from St. Petersburg, Russia.

Research

  • Reviewing contemporary Russian books for literary journals: permanent reviewer of The New Review (New York) and an occasional contributor to other literary journals in the US, Germany, and the former Soviet Union. 1987 - present
  • Translation of the main works of the Golden Age of Russian poetry: Lermontov, Tyutchev, and Boratynsky. 1975 - present
  • Historical phonetics: the prosody and the phonemic makeup of all the Germanic languages over the centuries. 1962 - present
  • Editions of classics in philology: annotated translations and evaluating the contributions in books by and on V. Ia. Propp, N.S. Trubetzkoy, Stefan Einarsson, and M.I. Steblin-Kamenskij. 1980 - present
  • A new etymological dictionary of English: production of an exhaustsive bibliography of books and articles in all languages dealing with the origin of English words and writing a dictionary reflecting this scholarship. 1988 - present
Awards
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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
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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
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