Dan Hofstadter, Art History
Hofstadter has published four books of nonfiction, Temperaments; Goldberg’s Angel: An Adventure in the Antiquities Trade; The Love Affair as a Work of Art (nominated for a Book Critics Circle Award); and Falling Palace. The last was a New York Times “Editor’s Choice” and a Finalist for the PEN Awards in nonfiction in 2006. He is currently working on a book for the Great Discoveries series to be published by Atlasbooks in the fall of 2008, on the subject of Galileo's 1633 heresy trial by the Roman Inquisition, on charges of supporting Copernicanism after his observations with the telescope. Hofstadter has written a number of profiles of artists and two-part pieces for The New Yorker and he taught for two years as a Visiting Critic in the graduate painting department of the University of Pennsylvania. He was educated at Columbia University and the Sorbonne. Dan was a member of the literature faculty at Bennington from 1997-2005 and returned as a regular visiting faculty member since the fall of 2006 to teach Art History.
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