Anatoly Liberman

aliber@umn.edu

612-625-5594

German, Nordic, Slavic & Dutch

323A Folwell Hall

9 Pleasant St SE
Minneapolis, MN 55455

Collegiate Affiliation

German, Nordic, Slavic & Dutch

Links

Anatoly Liberman - Faculty Research Highlights (video)

Oxford Etymologist blog

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