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About Daniel R. Schwarz
- Daniel R.
- Schwarz (born May 12, 1941) is Frederick J.
- Whiton Professor of English Literature and Stephen H.
- Weiss Presidential Fellow at Cornell University in the United States where he has taught since 1968.
- He is the author of fifteen significant books and numerous articles, many of which have appeared in prestigious journals and collections of essays.
- His recent book is Endtimes? Crises and Turmoil at the New York Times: 1999-2009 (2012) speaks to both scholarly and general audiences.
- 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 the State Department.
- He was a founding member of the Society for the Study of Narrative Literature and served as its President from 1990 to 1991.
- He has held three endowed visiting professorships (at the University of Arkansas, Little Rock, 1989; the University of Hawaii, 1992–93; and the University of Alabama, Huntsville, 1996).
- He was a guest Fellow for short periods at Oxford (Brasenose) and Cambridge (Girton) in the UK.
- He has been the President of the Cornell Phi Beta Kappa chapter since 2009. He has received recognition as an outstanding teacher.
- In 1998 he received Cornell's College of Arts and Sciences Russell award for distinguished teaching; the Weiss title, awarded by the University in 1999, further honors his teaching.
- His former graduate students and NEH participants have put together a festschrift in his honor.
- Its title--Reading Texts, Reading Live: Essays in the Tradition of Humanistic Cultural Criticism in Honor of Daniel R.
- Schwarz (University of Delaware Press, 2012)--testifies to Schwarz's influence as a teacher and scholar.
- In March 2018, Cornell celebrated his 50 years of teaching at the university with a conference in his honor.
- See: https://english.cornell.edu/50-years-transformative-teaching-celebrating-dan-schwarz He has in recent years blogged for Huffington on current political and social issues and on higher education.
- His book, How to Succeed in College and Beyond(2016) developed in part from his Huffington and other articles.
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