Geoffrey Hartman

Geoffrey H. Hartman (born 1929) 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.

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Biography

Hartman was born in Germany, 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.

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