Ruth B. Bottigheimer

Ruth B. Bottigheimer is a literary scholar, folklorist, and author. Currently Research Professor in the Department of English at Stony Brook University, State University of New York she specializes in European fairy tales and British children’s literature. She has also rersearched and published on the history of illustration, the religious socialization of children through edited Bible narratives, and stories told by Hannā Diyāb to Antoine Galland and included in his French edition of the Arabian Nights. She “has been hailed as one of America’s foremost Grimm scholars”.