Dean Fansler

Dean Fansler was born in 1885 and taught English literature at the University of the Philippines from 1908. He asked his students to write down the stories their families told, in their own language and then in translation, a method that allowed him to cover an archipelago where dozens of languages are spoken. In this way he gathered nearly four thousand stories between 1908 and 1914. A doctor of Columbia, he also taught there, returned to the Philippines after the collection appeared and taught there until 1924. He died in 1945.

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• TaleFilipino Popular TalesDean Fansler · 1921Literature