Geoffrey Hartman
Encyclopedia
Geoffrey H. Hartman is a German
-born American
literary theorist, sometimes identified with the Yale School of deconstruction, but also has written on a wide range of subjects, and cannot be categorized by a single school or method.
, in an Ashkenazi Jewish family. In 1939 he left Germany for England as an unaccompanied Kindertransport
child refugee, sent away by his family to escape the Nazi regime. He came to the United States in 1946, where he was reunited with his mother, and later became an American citizen.
He is now Sterling Professor
Emeritus & Senior Research Scholar of English and Comparative Literature at Yale University
. One of his long-term interests is the English
poet, William Wordsworth
.
His work explores the distinction between literature and literary commentator. He helped found the Yale Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, and lectures on issues dealing with the production and implications of testimony.
Germany
Germany , officially the Federal Republic of Germany , is a federal parliamentary republic in Europe. The country consists of 16 states while the capital and largest city is Berlin. Germany covers an area of 357,021 km2 and has a largely temperate seasonal climate...
-born American
United States
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literary theorist, sometimes identified with the Yale School of deconstruction, but also has written on a wide range of subjects, and cannot be categorized by a single school or method.
Biography
Hartman was born in GermanyGermany
Germany , officially the Federal Republic of Germany , is a federal parliamentary republic in Europe. The country consists of 16 states while the capital and largest city is Berlin. Germany covers an area of 357,021 km2 and has a largely temperate seasonal climate...
, in an Ashkenazi Jewish family. In 1939 he left Germany for England as an unaccompanied Kindertransport
Kindertransport
Kindertransport is the name given to the rescue mission that took place nine months prior to the outbreak of the Second World War. The United Kingdom took in nearly 10,000 predominantly Jewish children from Nazi Germany, Austria, Czechoslovakia, Poland and the Free City of Danzig...
child refugee, sent away by his family to escape the Nazi regime. He came to the United States in 1946, where he was reunited with his mother, and later became an American citizen.
He is now Sterling Professor
Sterling Professor
A Sterling Professorship is the highest academic rank at Yale University, awarded to a tenured faculty member considered one of the best in his or her field...
Emeritus & Senior Research Scholar of English and Comparative Literature at Yale University
Yale University
Yale University is a private, Ivy League university located in New Haven, Connecticut, United States. Founded in 1701 in the Colony of Connecticut, the university is the third-oldest institution of higher education in the United States...
. One of his long-term interests is the English
England
England is a country that is part of the United Kingdom. It shares land borders with Scotland to the north and Wales to the west; the Irish Sea is to the north west, the Celtic Sea to the south west, with the North Sea to the east and the English Channel to the south separating it from continental...
poet, William Wordsworth
William Wordsworth
William Wordsworth was a major English Romantic poet who, with Samuel Taylor Coleridge, helped to launch the Romantic Age in English literature with the 1798 joint publication Lyrical Ballads....
.
His work explores the distinction between literature and literary commentator. He helped found the Yale Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, and lectures on issues dealing with the production and implications of testimony.
External links
- Hartman bibliography
- For a review of Hartman's memoirs, see