Doctor of Philosophy - English (American Lit; cert. in American Studies)
The Graduate Center, The City University of New York (CUNY) - 2005
Jonathan Hartmann
Dr. Jonathan Hartmann
Lecturer I
Copy editor, Athenaeum Review
Development Chair, Universal Access Employee Resource Group
Teacher of rhetoric and Professional/Technical Communication. Copy and Line editor of most writing genres, from engineering to finance, medicine, psychology, and sociology. Writer, nonfiction. Mentor, Consultant, Collaborator.
Professional Preparation
Master of Arts - Cinema Studies (Film History, Theory)
New York University (NYU) - 1993
New York University (NYU) - 1993
Bachelor of Arts - English and Film, with honors
University of Michigan, Ann Arbor - 1988
University of Michigan, Ann Arbor - 1988
Research Areas
African American Studies - 19th Century American Literature - Cinema Studies - Documentary Film - Life Writing (Biography and Memoir) - Narrative Theory - Rhetoric
Publications
You Always Spoof the One You Love 2022 - Book Chapter
The Art of Reviewing 2013 - Book
From Chicago to Watts by Way of Paris and Hollywood: Art-Film Influence on Melvin Van Peebles's Early Features 2010 - Book
The Marketing of Edgar Allan Poe 2008 - Book
'Neither in nor out of Blackwood's': The Marketing of Edgar Allan Poe's Prose Address 2005 - Journal Article
The trope of Blaxploitation in critical Responses to Sweetback 1994 - Journal Issue
The Trope of Blaxploitation in Critical Responses to "Sweetback" 1994 - Journal Article
Awards
Writing Fellowship - The Graduate Center, The City University of New York [2003]
Tuition Scholarship - Professional Staff Congress, The City University of New York (CUNY) [2002]
Graduate Teaching Fellowship - The Graduate Center and Queens College, CUNY [2000]
Graduate Teaching Fellowship - The Graduate Center and John Jay College, CUNY [1997]
University Fellowship - The Graduate Center, CUNY [1995]
Presentations
A Long View of Mat Johnson's "Pym"
2012/03–2012/03 Northeast Modern Language Association conference, St. John Fisher College, Rochester NYPolitical Motivation for Poe's "How to Write a Blackwood Article"
2009/10–2009/10 Third Annual Edgar Allan Poe Conference: The Bicentennial."Ball of Wax": Baseball, Blood Sport, and the American Dream
2008/10–2008/10 Film & History Conference, Chicago, IllinoisReading Poe in an Age of Media Expansion
2007/05–2007/05 American Literature Association Conference, Boston, MAMasculine Identity in Jonathan Lethem's "Motherless Brooklyn" and Jonathan Safran Foer's "Everything is Illuminated"
2004/02–2004/02 Twentieth Century Literature Conference, Louisville, KYAdditional Information
Reviews
“Captive City: Meditations on Slavery in the Urban South” by Jennifer Lightweis-Goff. Forthcoming. Athenaeum Review 11, Summer 2025 - “Murder at the Zoo,” by M. Glenda Rosen. NAIWE blog, April 21, 2023 - “Write Faster With Your Word Processor” by Geoff Hart. NAIWE, February 18, 2022 - “To Like, Or Not to Like?” Athenaeum Review 7, Summer 2022 - “Better Lives Through Reading.” Athenaeum Review 6, Summer 2021 - “A Woman's Wit: Jane Austen's Life and Legacy.” Exhibit, Morgan Library and Museum, New York, NY. SHARP News, Summer 2010 - Leon Jackson, The Business of Letters: Authorial Economies in Antebellum America. Stanford UP, 2008. Book Review, SHARP News - “An Intimate Evening of Poetry and Conversation with John Astin.” The Edgar Allan Poe Review, Fall 2009.Activities
Copyeditor, Athenaeum Review
Copyedit and proofread twice-yearly publication of the Edith O'Donnell Institute of Art History at The University of Texas at Dallas.Affiliations
2025/07
National Council of Teachers of English
National Council of Teachers of English
Member
2019/06National Alliance of Independent Writers and Editors (NAIWE)
Member
2025/09Editorial Freelancers Association (EFA), North Texas Chapter (formerly active, Connecticut Chapter)
Member
2012/08ACES, The Society for Editing