Geoffrey Hartman is Sterling Professor Emeritus of English and
Comparative Literature and Senior Research Scholar at Yale. He has held distinguished visiting appointments at many universities in the U.S. and abroad, and is a Corresponding Fellow of the British Academy and a Chevalier, Ordre des Arts et Lettres, of the French Ministry of Culture. Among his other awards are the Christian Gauss Prize for Wordsworth's Poetry, the René Wellek Prize for The Fateful Question of Culture, and the 2006 Truman Capote Prize for The Geoffrey Hartman Reader. His latest book is A Scholar's Tale: Intellectual Journey of a Displaced Child of Europe. He is a Co-founder of the Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies and continues as its Project Director.