Geoffrey HartmanGeoffrey Hartman was Sterling Professor of English and Comparative Literature at Yale University and Project Director of its Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies. His many books include The Third Pillar: Essays in JudaicStudies (2011), A Scholar’s Tale: Intellectual Journey of a Displaced Child of Europe (2007), The Geoffrey Hartman Reader (2004, winner, Truman Capote Prize for Literary Criticism), Scars of the Spirit: The Struggle Against Inauthenticity (2004), The Fateful Question of Culture (1997), The Longest Shadow: In the Aftermath of the Holocaust (1996), The Unremarkable Wordsworth (1987), Criticism in the Wilderness: The Study of Literature Today (1980, 2nd ed., 2007), The Fate of Reading and Other Essays (1975), Beyond Formalism: Literary Essays, 1958–1970 (1970), and Wordsworth’s Poetry, 1787–1814 (1964, winner, Christian Gauss Award). Read More Read Less