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D. L. Ashliman's Home Page

Professor D. L. Ashliman

retired May 1, 2000, from the

University of Pittsburgh

He now conducts his folklore research from southern Utah. He can be contacted at ashliman at hotmail dot com. (Use traditional e-mail punctuation and spacing.)

WWW sites

Folklinks: Folk and Fairy-Tale Sites.
Folktexts: A Library of Folktales, Folklore, Fairy Tales, and Mythology.
Germanic Myths, Legends, and Sagas.
Germany Discovers America. An annotated bibliography [in progress] of German-American travel narratives, 1800-1918.

Monographs

Fairy Lore: A Handbook. Westport (Connecticut), New York, and London: Greenwood Press, 2005.
Folk and Fairy Tales: A Handbook. Westport (Connecticut), New York, and London: Greenwood Press, 2004. ISBN 0-31332810-2. 256 pages.
Aesop's Fables. Edited and with an introduction and notes by D. L. Ashliman. Translated by V. S. Vernon Jones. Illustrations by Arthur Rackham. New York: Barnes & Noble Classics, 2003. ISBN 1-59308-062-X. xxxiv, 269 pp.
Voices from the Past: The Cycle of Life in Indo-European Folktales, second edition, expanded and revised. Dubuque, Iowa: Kendall/Hunt Publishing Company, 1995. ISBN 0-7872-1503-1. 495 pages. First edition 1993.
Once upon a Time: The Story of European Folktales. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh, External Studies Program, 1994. 235 pages.
A Guide to Folktales in the English Language: Based on the Aarne-Thompson Classification System. Bibliographies and Indexes in World Literature, vol. 11. Westport (Connecticut), New York, and London: Greenwood Press, 1987. ISBN 0-313-25961-5. xvi, 384 pages. Designated as an "outstanding reference source" by the American Library Association.
Ph.D. dissertation: The American West in Nineteenth-Century German Literature. Rutgers University, 1969. Dissertation Abstracts 2959-A. University Microfilms, Ann Arbor, Michigan. Order number 7000572. v, 288 pp.

Guest Professorships

Universität Augsburg, Germany (1992, 1996, 1997, 1998, 2006).

Education

University of Utah, B.A.
Rutgers University, M.A., Ph.D.
Georg-August Universität, Göttingen, Germany.
Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität, Bonn, Germany.

Updated February 20, 2006.