Schwarz, Daniel R(oger)

views updated

SCHWARZ, Daniel R(oger)

SCHWARZ, Daniel R(oger). American, b. 1941. Genres: Poetry, Humanities, Literary criticism and history. Career: Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, assistant professor, 1968-74, associate professor, 1974-80, director of undergraduate study in English, 1976-80, professor of English, 1980-, Stephen H. Weiss Presidential Fellow, 1999-; University of Hawaii, Visiting Citizens, chair, 1993-94; University of Arkansas, Little Rock, Cooper Professor, 1988; University of Alabama, Huntsville, visiting eminent scholar, 1996. Director of 9 National Endowment for the Humanities summer seminars for college teachers and for secondary schoolteachers, 1984-93. Publications: Disraeli's Fiction, 1979; Conrad's Fiction: Almayer's Folly to Under Western Eyes, 1980; Conrad: The Later Fiction, 1982; Humanistic Heritage: Critical Theories of the English Novel from James to Hillis Miller, 1986; Reading Joyce's Ulysses, 1987; The Transformation of the English Novel, 1890-1930, 1989, rev. ed., 1995; The Case for a Humanistic Poetics, 1991; Narrative and Representation in Wallace Stevens, 1993; Reconfiguring Modernism, 1997; Imagining the Holocaust, 1999; Rereading Conrad, 2001; Broadway Boogie Woogie: Damon Runyon and the Making of New York City Culture, 2002. Author of poems. EDITOR: James Joyce's The Dead: A Case Study in Contemporary Criticism, 1993; (with J. Carlisle) Narrative and Culture, 1994; Joseph Conrad's The Secret Sharer: A Case Study in Contemporary Criticism, 1997. Address: Department of English, 242 Goldwin Smith Hall, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY 14853, U.S.A. Online address: [email protected]

About this article

Schwarz, Daniel R(oger)

Updated About encyclopedia.com content Print Article