Robin Harte was educated at Belfast High School, Trinity College Dublin and St. John's College, Cambridge, and has taught in the Universities of Swansea and Cork, Iowa, Alaska and Mexico. After pretending to retire, he went on the academic equivalent of a road trip, stopping at Belfast, Fairbanks, Lille and Mexico, with frequent stopovers at Texas, Stellenbosch, Niš, Palermo and Seoul.
