More About the Author
Daniel T. O'Hara (born October 4, 1948) was raised in an Irish-Catholic enclave known as "2" Street in South Philadelphia, PA famous for its New Year's Day Mummer's Parade and Four Roses Whiskey Distillery. He went through sixteen years of Catholic education (1954-1970)before earning his Ph.D.in 1976 in modern literatue and theory at Temple University. He was an assistant professor at Princeton University (1976-79) and associate and full professor at Temple University (1979 to the present). He has taught, as well, at the University of Pittsburgh, Columbia University, and Dartmouth College. Married in May 1970 to Joanne Recchuiti, high school sweet-heart,they have a daughter Jessica and a grand-daughter, Maria Napolitano. Appointed the first Mellon Professor of Humanities in 2003, besides his seven authored-books, he has also edited or co-edited five other books, including The Geoffrey Hartman Reader, which won the Truman Capote Prize for best book of literary criticism for 2004 and the Barnes and Noble Classics edition, co-edited with Gina MacKenzie, of Freud's The Interpretation of Dreams (2005). Author of many essays on modern literature and theory, he is also a published poet, his poems appearing in literary magazines such as The Gingko-Tree Review and critical journals such as Annals of Scholarship. His forthcoming book, Narrating Demons, Transformative Texts: The Imagination of Genesis in Mid-Modern Fictional Memoir (the Ohio State University Press, 2012)revaluates critically the theory of genius shaping Thomas Mann's Doctor Faustus (1947), Vladimir Nabokov's Lolita (1955), and William S. Burroughs' Naked Lunch (1959). Currently, he is working on a book on the Irish poet W.B. Yeats.
