Daniel Hoffman-Schwartz is a scholar, teacher, editor, and translator. He is a lecturer in Comparative Literature at Princeton University; he has previously taught at Rutgers University, Boğaziçi University in Istanbul, and the Gallatin School of Individualized Study at NYU. His academic interests include comparative romanticism; 20th-century French and German philosophy; aesthetics and politics; rhetoric, philology, and close reading; translation and intermediality. He is the author of recent or forthcoming publications on Derrida and Heidegger, Wordsworth and Burke, Melville and Claire Denis, Jean-Francois Lyotard, Lydia Davis, Billy Wilder, and Jean-Luc Nancy. He is currently completing his monograph, “Infinite Reflection on the Revolution in France: Political Romanticism, Rhetoric, and Translation after Burke.”
He is the editor of Flirtations: Rhetoric and Aesthetics this Side of Seduction (Fordham, 2015) and Handsomely Done: Aesthetics, Politics, and Media after Melville (Northwestern, 2019) as well as the special issue of Philosophy Today, “Rereading The Differend, Rewriting The Differend” (2022); since 2016 he has been the co-editor of Syndicate Lit, an online journal that hosts discussions of new academic books.