High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Jeffrey Peter Hart (b. April 22, 1930 in Brooklyn, New York) and raised in New York, New York, is a cultural critic, professor emeritus of English at Dartmouth College, essayist, and columnist who lives in New Hampshire, United States. After two years as an undergraduate at Dartmouth, he transferred to Columbia University, where he obtained his A.B. (1952) and Ph.D., both in English literature.