Jeffrey Hart
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| Born |
Jeffrey Peter Hart April 20, 1930 Brooklyn, New York City |
| Residence | New Hampshire |
| Nationality | United States |
| Education | A.B. and Ph.D. |
| Alma mater | Columbia University |
| Occupation | Professor of English Literature |
| Years active | 1963–1993 |
| Employer |
Dartmouth College National Review |
| Title | Professor emeritus |
| Political party | Former Republican |
Jeffrey Peter Hart (born April 22, 1930) is an American cultural critic, essayist, columnist, and Professor Emeritus of English at Dartmouth College.
Hart was born and raised in Brooklyn, New York. After two years as an undergraduate at Dartmouth, he transferred to Columbia University, where he joined the Philolexian Society and obtained his A.B. (1952) and Ph.D., both in English literature.
During the Korean War he served in U.S. Naval Intelligence, in Boston.
After a short period teaching at Columbia, Hart became Professor of English literature at Dartmouth for three decades (1963–1993). Hart specialized in 18th century literature but also had a fondness for modernist literature. He was popular with the students, from whom he required a great deal of writing. His political apostasy annoyed his faculty colleagues: when they were concerned about fossil fuels he made it a point to commute to campus in a Cadillac limousine; he might have a mechanical hand drum the table when faculty meetings were too long.
In 1962 he joined William F. Buckley's conservative journal National Review as a book reviewer, requiring a trip from Hanover, New Hampshire to New York City every other week. Later, he would contribute as a writer and senior editor for the better part of the ensuing three decades even as he fulfilled his teaching responsibilities as a professor at Dartmouth. He is still a contributor with the magazine. In one review for the magazine, he wrote, "liberal rote anathema on 'racism' is in effect a poisonous assault upon Western self-preference."
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