Daniel R. Schwarz
Professor, Scholar, Teacher
Daniel R. Schwarz (born May 12, 1941) is Frederick J. Whiton Professor of English Literature and Stephen H. Weiss Presidential Fellow at Cornell University, where he has taught since 1968. He has directed nine NEH seminars and has lectured in the United States and abroad, including 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 was the President of the Cornell Phi Beta Kappa chapter from 2009 to 2026. He is the author of twenty books and a number of articles.
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 put together a festschrift in his honor in 2012, titled Reading Texts, Reading Live: Essays in the Tradition of Humanistic Cultural Criticism in Honor of Daniel R. Schwarz (University of Delaware Press, 2012). In March 2018, Cornell celebrated his 50 years of teaching at the university with a conference in his honor.
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