Anatoly Liberman
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Educational Background & Specialties
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
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Courses Taught
- Scandinavian Myths
- German Folklore
- German Medieval Literature
- The History of the German Language
- Old Norse
- Icelandic Saga
- German Dialects
- Old Saxon
- Middle Dutch
- Old High German
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Research & Professional Activities
Professional Activities
- 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
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
Outreach
- Interviews: BBC, Voice of America, Chicago Tribune, Star Tribune, The History Channel and Culture, a television station broadcasting from St. Petersburg, Russia,
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Publications
- A Bibliography of English Etymology. Liberman, Anatoly, University of Minnesota Press, Author, 2010.
- An Analytic Dictionary of English Etymology: An Introduction . Liberman, Anatoly, University of Minnesota Press, Author, 2008.
- Etymology for Everyone: Word Origins… and How We Know Them. Liberman, Anatoly, Oxford University Press, Author, 2005.
- N. S. Trubetzkoy, Studies in General Linguistics and Language Structure. Liberman, Anatoly, Marvin Taylor, Duke University Press, 2001.
- Word Health. Liberman, Anatoly, Il Calamo (Rome), 1994.
- On the Heights of Creation: The Lyrics of Fedor Tyutchev. Liberman, Anatoly, JAI Press, 1993.
- N.S. Trubetzkoy, The Legacy of Genghis Khan and Other Essays on Russian Identity. Liberman, Anatoly, University of Michigan, 1991.
- N. S. Trubetzkoy, Writings on Literature. Liberman, Anatoly, University of Minnesota Press, 1990.
- Stefan Einarsson, Studies in Germanic Philology. Liberman, Anatoly, Helmut Buske (Hamburg), 1986.
- Vladimir Propp, Theory and History of Folklore. Liberman, Anatoly, University of Minnesota Press, 1984.
- Mikhail Lermontov, Major Poetical Works. Liberman, Anatoly, University of Minnesota Press, 1983.
- Germanic Accentology, Volume I. Liberman, Anatoly, University of Minnesota Press, 1982.
- 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.
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Awards
- Award for Outstanding Contributions to Graduate and Professional Teaching, 2011
- MLA Prize for a Distinguished Bibliography, 2011
- American Council of Learned Societies, 2001 - 2002
- Fesler-Lampert Professorship in the Humanities, 1999 - 2002
- An international festschift GERMANIC STUDIES IN HONOR OF ANATOLY LIBERMAN, 1997
- VERBATIM-Dictionary Society of North America award for the best project of the year, 1996
- Bush Fellowship, Fall 1995 - Spring 1996
- NEH Summer Scholarship, 1995
- McKnight Research Award, 1994 - 1996
- Fulbright Scholar Award, 1988
- College of Liberal Arts Scholars of the College, University of Minnesota, 1986
- Numerous feature articles inside and outside of the Twin Cities area
- Prize for the best book in Folklore, 1985
- Fellowship at Clare Hall, Cambridge University, Fall 1984
- Guggenheim Fellowship, Fall 1982 - Spring 1983
- Two NEH Summer Seminars, 1980 and 1991
- American-Scandinavian Foundation Scholarship for study in Iceland, Summer 1979