Professor D. L. Ashliman

WWW sites

• Folklore and Mythology Electronic Texts.

• Germanic Myths, Legends, and Sagas.

• Germany Discovers America. An annotated bibliography [in progress] of German-American travel narratives, 1800-1918.

• Indo-European Folk and Fairy Tales.

• The Germanic World. Links to sites dealing with the geography, history, and culture of Germany, Austria, Switzerland, Scandinavia, the low countries, and England.

Monographs

• 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. 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.

Education

• University of Utah, B.A.

• Rutgers University, M.A., Ph.D.

• Georg-August Universität, Göttingen, Germany.