Daniel R. Schwarz
Daniel R. Schwarz is Frederic J. Professor of English Literature and Stephen H. Weiss Presidential Fellow at Cornell University, where he has taught since 1968. He has received Cornell's College of Arts and Sciences Russell award for distinguished teaching.
He is the author of the recent In Defense of Reading: Teaching Literature in the Twenty-First Century (2008), Reading the Modern British and Irish Novel, 1890-1930 (2004), Broadway Boogie Woogie: Damon Runyon and the Making of New York City Culture (Palgrave/ St.Martin's, 2003) and the widely read Imagining the Holocaust (1999). His prior books include Rereading Conrad (2001), Reconfiguring Modernism: Explorations in the Relationship Between Modern Art and Modern Literature (1997), Narrative and Representation in Wallace Stevens (1993)--a Choice selection for best academic book of 1993; The Case for a Humanistic Poetics (1991), The Transformation of the English Novel, 1890-1930 (1989; revised 1995), Reading Joyce's "Ulysses" (2004; orig. ed 1987); The Humanistic Heritage: Critical Theories of the English Novel from James to Hillis Miller (1986); Conrad: The Later Fiction (1982); Conrad: "Almayer's Folly" through "Under Western Eyes" (1980); and Disraeli's Fiction (1979).
He has edited Joyce's The Dead (1994) and Conrad's The Secret Sharer (1997) in the Bedford Case Studies in Contemporary Criticism Series, am co-editor of Narrative and Culture (1994). He served as consulting editor of the six-volume edition of the Early Novels of Benjamin Disraeli (2004) for which he wrote the "General Introduction", and general editor of the seven volumes Reading the American and British Novel for which he wrote one volume. He has directed nine NEH seminars, and has lectured widely in the United States and abroad, including a number of lecture tours under the auspices of the academic programs of the USIS and State Department. He has held three endowed visiting professorships. He also has published over 65 poems, some of which are available on his web page (http://www.people.cornell.edu/pages/drs6/) and a little fiction.
