Schwarz, Daniel R
Fredric J. Whiton Professor of English Literature
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- Professor, English (ENGL), College of Arts and Sciences
Daniel R. Schwarz is Frederic J. Whiton Professor of English Literature and Stephen H. Weiss Presidential Fellow at Cornell University, where he has taught since 1968. In 1998 he received Cornell's College of Arts and Sciences Russell award for distinguished teaching, and the Weiss title also speaks to his teaching prowess.
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Affiliations
other Cornell affiliations
Research
research overview
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- The British novel from Defoe through Joyce—special focus on Joyce, Conrad, Lawrence, Hardy, Forster, and Woolf—but also the Victorian novel
- Cultural criticism, especially the modernist tradition, including the relation between, on the one hand, painting and sculpture and, on the other, literature
- Twentieth-century poetry, especially Wallace Stevens
- Literary theory
- The changing nature of literary studies and the profession
- Victorian poetry and Victorian studies
- The history and theory of the novel
geographic focus
Publications
selected publications listing
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Books in Progress:
- In Defense of Reading (Blackwell) Under consideration
- The Metamorphoses of the Old Grey Lady: The Transformation of the New York Times, 1944-2005.
- In Defense of Reading (Blackwell) Under consideration
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Editor:
- Consulting Editor, The Early Novels of Benjamin Disraeli, 6 vols. (London: Pickering and Charro Publishers LTD), 2004. I wrote the general introduction to the edition.
- Joseph Conrad's "The Secret Sharer": A Case Study in Contemporary Criticism (New York: Bedford Division of St. Martin's Press), 1997. I have written three essays for this volume: the bibliographical and historical introduction, the critical overview, and the psychoanalytic essay.
- James Joyce's "The Dead": A Case Study of Contemporary Criticism (New York: Bedford Division of St. Martin's Press, 1994). I have written three essays for this volume: the bibliographical and historical introduction, the critical overview, and "Gabriel Conroy's Psyche: Character as Concept in Joyce's 'The Dead.'"
- Narrative and Culture (with Janice Carlisle) (Athens: University of Georgia Press, 1994).
- General Editor, Seven volume series entitled Reading the British and American Novel, New York and London: Blackwell.
- Consulting Editor, The Early Novels of Benjamin Disraeli, 6 vols. (London: Pickering and Charro Publishers LTD), 2004. I wrote the general introduction to the edition.
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- Reading the Modern British and Irish Novel: 1900-1950, ( New York and London: Blackwell), 2005.
- Broadway Boogie Woogie: Damon Runyon and the Making of New York Culture (New York: Palgrave), 2003. Paperback, 2004.
- Rereading Conrad (Columbia, MO: University of Missouri Press), spring 2001. Also in paperback.
- Imagining the Holocaust (New York: St. Martin's Press; London: Macmillan, 1999). Revised paperback edition, 2000.
- Reconfiguring Modernism: Explorations In the Relationship Between Modern Art and Literature, (St. Martin's Press: New York; London: Macmillan, 1997). Also in paperback.
- Narrative and Representation in the Poetry of Wallace Stevens (London: Macmillan; New York: St. Martin's Press, 1993). Also in paperback. Chosen by Choice as an outstanding book of 1993.
- The Case for a Humanistic Poetics (London: Macmillan; Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1991). Also in paperback.
- The Transformation of the English Novel, 1890-1930: Studies in Hardy, Conrad, Joyce, Lawrence, Forster, and Woolf. (London: Macmillan; New York: St. Martin's Press, 1989). Revised second and paperback edition, 1995.
- Reading Joyce's "Ulysses" (London: Macmillan; New York: St. Martin's Press, 1987; revised, 1991). Also in paperback. Centenary edition with new Preface and bibliography, 2004.
- The Humanistic Heritage: Critical Theories of the English Novel from James to Hillis Miller (London: Macmillan; Philadelphia, PA: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1986; revised, 1989). Also in paperback.
- Conrad: The Later Fiction (London: Macmillan; Atlantic Highlands, NJ: Humanities Press, 1982).
- Conrad: "Almayer's Folly" to "Under Western Eyes" (Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press; London: Macmillan, 1980).
- Disraeli's Fiction (London: Macmillan Press; NY: Barnes & Noble, 1979).
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Articles and Chapters in Collection:
- "Creating a Second Self: Transference as Narrative Form in "The Secret Sharer," Approaches to Teaching Conrad's Heart of Darkness and "The Secret Sharer,'" ed. Hunt Hawkins and Brian Shafer (New York: The Modern Language Association of America, 2002), 79-90
- "A Humanistic Ethics of Reading," Mapping the Ethical Turn: A Reader in Ethics, Culture, and Literary Theory, ed. Todd F. Davis and Kenneth Womack (Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2001), 3-15.
- Almost 100 articles and chapters in collections and over 30 published poems.
- "Creating a Second Self: Transference as Narrative Form in "The Secret Sharer," Approaches to Teaching Conrad's Heart of Darkness and "The Secret Sharer,'" ed. Hunt Hawkins and Brian Shafer (New York: The Modern Language Association of America, 2002), 79-90
presentations
- In Defense of Reading: Why We Read Imaginative Literature, Panelist 2010
featured in archived article
speaker at Cornell event
Teaching
teaching activities
- COML-4830: Imagining the Holocaust - Spring 2013
- ENGL-4580: Imagining the Holocaust - Spring 2013
- ENGL-4920: Honors Seminar II - Spring 2013
- ENGL-4930: Honors Essay Tutorial I - Spring 2013
- ENGL-4940: Honors Essay Tutorial II - Spring 2013
- ENGL-4950: Independent Study - Spring 2013
- ENGL-7940: Directed Study - Spring 2013
- ENGL-7950: Group Study - Spring 2013
- GERST-4570: Imagining the Holocaust - Spring 2013
- JWST-4580: Imagining the Holocaust - Spring 2013
- ENGL-4930: Honors Essay Tutorial I - Fall 2012
- ENGL-4940: Honors Essay Tutorial II - Fall 2012
- ENGL-4950: Independent Study - Fall 2012
- ENGL-7940: Directed Study - Fall 2012
- ENGL-7950: Group Study - Fall 2012
- COML-4830: Imagining the Holocaust - Spring 2012
- COML-6435: Joyce's Ulysses - Spring 2012
- ENGL-4580: Imagining the Holocaust - Spring 2012
- ENGL-4930: Honors Essay Tutorial I - Spring 2012
- ENGL-4940: Honors Essay Tutorial II - Spring 2012
- ENGL-4950: Independent Study - Spring 2012
- ENGL-6700: Joyce's Ulysses - Spring 2012
- ENGL-7940: Directed Study - Spring 2012
- ENGL-7950: Group Study - Spring 2012
- GERST-4570: Imagining the Holocaust - Spring 2012
- JWST-4580: Imagining the Holocaust - Spring 2012
- ENGL-3500: The High Modernist Tradition - Fall 2011
- ENGL-4700: Reading Joyce's Ulysses - Fall 2011
- ENGL-4930: Honors Essay Tutorial I - Fall 2011
- ENGL-4940: Honors Essay Tutorial II - Fall 2011
- ENGL-4950: Independent Study - Fall 2011
- ENGL-7940: Directed Study - Fall 2011
- ENGL-7950: Group Study - Fall 2011
Service
current professional activities
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College of Arts and Sciences:
- Russell Award for Distinguished Teaching Prize Committee, 1999-2001
- Dean's Advisory Committee on Appointments, 1980-83
- Director, Advanced Placement in English, 1977-88
- Committee on New Faculty, 1977-82; Chair, 1979-82
- Board of Undergraduate Education, 1976-78
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Cornell University:
- Weiss Presidential Fellow Selection Committee, 2001-
- Weiss Presidential Fellows-Campus Life Partnership (co-developed with Susan Murphy and LeNorman Strong ), 2000-
- Cybertower (Cornell on the Web) Site Development Project, 1999-2001; Cybertower Site Participant ("Imagining the Holocaust"), 2001-
- Faculty Advisor, Men’s Varsity Tennis team, 1998-
- Planning and Steering Group, Academic Leadership Series, 1997-2001; Ehrenberg Subcommittee on Retirement issues, 1997
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Department of English:
- Acting Chair, Summer 1981
- Chair, Travel and Grant-in-Aid Committee, 1981-85
- Appointments Committee, 1981-83, 1989-90, 1996-97, 2001-2; Chair, 1996-97
- Chair, Curriculum Committee, 1977-80; member, 1983-4
- Director of Undergraduate Studies, 1976-80
- Graduate Committee, 1971-74, 1994-5; Chair 1971-4 Director of Honors, 2003-
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Professional Service:
- Consultant, Elie Wiesel, PBS hour show, produced by Robert Gardner, November 2002
- Editorial Board, Narrative, 1992-
- Society for the Study of Narrative Literature, founding member, 1984; Nominating Committee, 1984-87, chair, 1986-87; Executive Council, 1986-88; Second Vice President, 1988-89; First Vice President, 1989-90; President, 1990-91; Executive Committee, 1992-93; International Conference Program Committee (Vancouver), 1994
- Reader, over a hundred manuscripts for university and commerical presses and probably close to two hundred articles for scholarly journals, including PMLA, and referee for over a hundred tenure and promotion decisions
Background
education and training
- Ph.D., Brown University 1968
- M.A., Brown University 1965
- B.A., Union College, Phi Beta Kappa; Junior year, 1961-62, Edinburgh University, Scotland 1963
awards and honors
- US State Department Guest Lecturer, Italy, 2004
- US State Department Guest Lecturer, Italy, 2003
- Stephen H. Weiss Presidential Fellowship Award for Distinguished Teaching, 1999
- USIS Visiting Lecturer, 1999
- Stephen and Margery Russell Distinguished Teaching Award, 1998
- Visiting Eminent Scholar in the Humanities, 1996
- Director, National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Seminar for College Teachers, 1993
- Academic Specialist Grant for Lectures in Australia, United States Information Service (USIS), 1993
- Citizen's Chair in Literature, 1992
- Director, National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Seminar for Secondary School Teachers, 1991
- Director, National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Seminar for College Teachers, 1988
- Distinguished Visiting Cooper Professor, 1988
- Visiting Scholar, Girton College, 1985
- Visiting Scholar, Brasenose College, 1982