Anatoly Liberman is a linguist, medievalist, etymologist, poet, translator of poetry (mainly from and into Russian), and literary critic. Currently, Liberman is a professor in the Department of German, Nordic, Slavic and Dutch at the University of Minnesota. He has published works on Germanic historical phonetics, English etymology, mythology/folklore, the history of philology, and poetic translation. He publishes a blog, "The Oxford Etymologist."