Geoffrey Hartman

Geoffrey Hartman was Sterling Professor of English and Comparative Literature at Yale and Project Director of its Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies. His many books include The Third Pillar: Essays in Judaic Studies (Penn, 2011), A Scholar’s Tale: Intellectual Journey of a Displaced Child of Europe (Fordham, 2007), The Geoffrey Hartman Reader (Fordham, 2004, winner, Truman Capote Prize for Literary Criticism), Scars of the Spirit: The Struggle Against Inauthenticity (St. Martin’s, 2004), The Fateful Question of Culture (Columbia, 1997) The Longest Shadow: In the Aftermath of the Holocaust (Indiana, 1996), Criticism in the Wilderness: The Study of Literature Today (Yale, 1980, 2nd ed, 2007).