[3] She is a member of numerous professional organizations including the International Society for Folk Narrative Research, Bruder Grimm Gesellschaft, and the Children’s Literature Association.
[3] The Stony Brook University website states that “[Bottigheimer’s] work crosses disciplinary boundaries, contextualizing genres in their socio-historical cultures of origin, assessing them in terms of publishing history parameters, and utilizing linguistics in discourse analysis”.
[citation needed] Bottigheimer’s languages of research include English, German, French, and occasionally Italian and Spanish.
[4] At both the 2005 congress of the International Society for Folk Narrative Research in Estonia and the 2006 meeting of the American Folklore Society in Milwaukee, Bottigheimer’s claims – particularly the claim that the rise fairy tale “template” was originally conceived of by the 16th-century Italian writer Giovan Francesco Straparola[4] – were repeatedly and “uproar[iously]”[4] questioned by “unpersuaded” folklorists.
[4] Folklorists Dan Ben-Amos,[5] Francisco Vaz da Silva,[6] and Jan M. Ziolkowski[7] each produced papers responding to Bottigheimer’s claims that appeared in the Journal of American Folklore.