Geoffrey H. Hartman is Sterling Professor (Emeritus) of English and Comparative Literature, and Project Director, Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies at Yale University, New Haven. Dr. Hartman has lectured and taught throughout the United States, Europe, Israel, and South America. He was a Fellow of the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, was awarded an honorary degree from Queens College of the City University of New York, and has received fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation and the National Endowment for the Humanities. In addition to numerous significant works on literature and literary theory, Professor Hartman is author of The Longest Shadow: In the Aftermath of the Holocaust (1996) and, most recently, Critic’s Journey: Literary Reflections, 1958–1998 (1999).
