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News: Volume co-edited by Dan O'Hara wins prestigious 2006 Truman Capote Award for Literary Criticism

Volume co-edited by Dan O'Hara wins prestigious 2006 Truman Capote Award for Literary Criticism

The Geoffrey Hartman Reader (Fordham UP, 2004, 468pp), edited by Geoffrey Hartman and Daniel T. O'Hara that spans writing from Hartman's career (1954-2004) with an introduction by O'Hara has won the 2006 Truman Capote Award for Literary Criticism.

Geoffrey Hartman, Emeritus Professor of English at Yale University, is the author of some twenty books of literary and cultural criticism and theory. His 1964 book, Wordsworth's Poetry, 1798-1807, is considered a classic in the study of Romanticism, as are his books in critical theory, Beyond Formalism (1970), The Fate of Reading (1975), Criticism in the Wilderness (1980), Saving the Text (1981), The Fateful Question of Culture (1997) and Scars of the Spirit (2002).

O'Hara, Professor of English at Temple, has known Hartman for thirty years. "His idea of criticism as an art has been a formative influence on me," O'Hara observes of a 
collaboration that he describes as "intellectually and emotionally rewarding."

O'Hara is the author or editor of almost a dozen volumes of criticism, including the warmly praised Empire Burlesque: The Fate of Critical Culture in Global America (Duke UP, 2003). He is currently completing a book manuscript for Duke University Press on the forms of the fundamentalist imagination in modern intellectual culture entitled, "The Poetics of Truth: On the Fundamentalist Imagination in Modern Literature and Theory." In 2005, with Gina Masucci MacKenzie, O'Hara edited, introduced, and revised the A.A. Brill translation of Sigmund Freud's The Interpretation of Dreams for the Barnes and Noble Classics editions; and in 2006 with David Garrett Izzo he is publishing a collection of critical essays, Henry James Against Aestheticism, for MacFarland, Inc.

The Truman Capote Award is administered for the Capote estate by the University of Iowa Writers' Workshop. Past winners of the coveted award have been the Nobel Laureate and poet, Seamus Heaney, Elaine Scarry, Helen Vendler, and Susan Stewart, a former professor at the Temple English department now at Princeton University.