Harold Aram Veeser

In 2010, Veeser published a biography of Said, which combines " never-before-published interviews, debate transcripts, and photographs" with short personal anecdotes. Derided as "hagiography" in a review published by the American conservative think tank Middle East Forum, other reviewers have been more positive, finding it to be a "corrective to some of the more fawning tributes that have appeared in recent years," drawing comparisons to Robert Irwin's more openly critical analysis of Said's work, Dangerous Knowledge: Orientalism and Its Discontents. Prior to his work on Said, Veeser was primarily known for his literary and art criticism, collected in a number of influential collections of literary criticism, in addition to popular magazines and academic journals, including The Nation Magazine, The Journal of Armenian Studies, Ararat, and Armenian Forum. == Major publications in chronological order ==

• The New Historicism (Editor) (1989). Veeser, H. Aram, editor. The New Historicism. Routledge, 1989. • The New Historicism Reader (Editor) (1994). Veeser, H. Aram, editor. The New Historicism Reader. Routledge, 1994. • Confessions of the Critics (Editor) (1996). Veeser, H. Aram, editor. Confessions of the Critic. Routledge, 1996. • The Stanley Fish Reader (Editor) (1999). Fish, Stanley Eugene and H. Aram Veeser, editors. The Stanley Fish Editor. Blackwell Publishers, 1999. • Ken Aptekar: Painting between the Lines (2001). Veeser, H. Aram. “Judgment, Rescue, and the Realignment of Painting.” Painting Between The Lines, 1990-2000. Edited by Ken Aptekar, Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art, 2001, pp 49–77. • The Politics of Autobiography in North American Criticism (2007). Veeser, H. Aram. “The Politics of Autobiography in North American Criticism.” vol. 7, no. 3, pp. 13–77, 2007. • Edward Said: The Charisma of Criticism (2010), Veeser, H. Aram. Edward Said: The Charisma of Criticism. Routledge, 2010. The Rebirth of American Literary Theory and Criticism: Scholars Discuss Intellectual Origins and Turning Points. Anthem, 2020. == Bibliography ==