A graduate from University of Bordeaux III (Licence de Lettres Modernes and Licence de philosophie), Sorbonne (Maîtrise de Littérature française), and École Normale Supérieure (double major in literature and philosophy), he holds a Ph.D. in French Literature from Yale University. Benjamin Hoffmann is the author of four novels and one critical edition, published by Éditions Gallimard and Pennsylvania State University Press. His next book, Posthumous America: Literary Reinventions of America at the End of the Eighteenth Century, is forthcoming in French and English translation from Éditions Classiques Garnier and Pennsylvania State University Press.