Geoffrey Hartman
Sterling Professor Emeritus &
Senior Research Scholar of English and
Comparative Literature
Project Director and Faculty Advisor of the
Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies
at the University Library
EDUCATION:
B.A. (summa cum laude), Queens College of the City of New York, 1949, Comparative Literature
Ph.D., Yale University, 1953, Comparative Literature
INTERESTS: My interests are predominantly in the study of poetry and issues of interpretation. But I suspect I am at heart an essayist always finding something of basic human and social interest. At the moment psychoanalytic and religious topics continue to intrigue, and my work in trauma studies and how to face genocidal events has not let up. I write often about the implication of Yale's Video Atchive for Holocaust Testimonies which I helped to found. As for my youthful preoccupation with Wordsworth and his ongoing relevance, that concern has not lessened, and I expect to keep writing about him and the other major Romantic poets.
SELECTED PUBLICATIONS:
--Wordsworth's Poetry (1964; several reprintings)
--Beyond Formalism (1970)
--Criticism in the Wilderness (1980; to be reissued 2007)
--The Longest Shadow: In the Aftermath of the Holocaust (1996; reissue, 2002)
--The Geoffrey Hartman Reader (2004)
