Daniel R.
Schwarz
Curriculum Vitae
Honors/Grants
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Elected Honorary Member, Cornell Quill and Dagger, 2023.
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Guest columnist, Cornell Sun, 2023-2024.
- Conference entitled "Celebrating Dan Schwarz: Fifty Years of Transformative Teaching" in honor of my fifty years at Cornell. March 23 and March 24, 2018. See: https://www.youtube.com/user/CornellEnglish/videos and here is
the one for my
talk: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qT6CrTFHzV8
- Festschrift in my honor, Reading Texts, Reading Lives: Essays in the Tradition of Humanistic Cultural Criticism in Honor of Daniel R. Schwarz, eds. Helen Maxson and Dan Morris, co-published by Rowman and Littlefield (UK) and Newark, Delaware: University of Delaware Press, 2012.
- “A Bibliography of Major Works by Daniel R. Schwarz,” edited
and annotated by Brian W, Shaffer, in Reading Texts, Reading
Lives: Essays in the Tradition of Humanistic Cultural Criticism
in Honor of Daniel R. Schwarz, eds. Helen Maxson
and Dan Morris, co-published by Rowman and Littlefield (UK)
and Newark, Delaware: University of Delaware Press, 2012, 221-
228.
- Distinguished Alumni Guest and Speaker, Union College, Schenectady, NY, April 5-6 , 2016.
- In Defense of Reading chosen as December 2018 Book of the Month by Metacircle Readers Club, Hong Kong, China
- Cornell Humanities Research Grant, awarded by the Cornell Humanities Council in support of my book-in-progress “Understanding the Holocaust in the Twenty-First century: Major Fiction, and Films,” November, 2018.
- Frederick J. Whiton Professorship in English Literature, 2007-
- Stephen H. Weiss
Presidential Fellowship Award and Title for Distinguished
Teaching , 1999-
- Stephen and Margery Russell Distinguished Teaching Award, Cornell
University, 1998
- The Samuel Paley lectures, Hebrew University, Jerusalem, Israel, December 2009
- Honoree with Distinction, Cornell Greek Community, 2010
- Featured Poet at Westview Writers Festival, Southwestern State Oklahoma University, March 2007 as well as in the spring/summer issue of Westview, an issue that included an interview with me and a critical essay on my poetry.
- US State Department Cultural and Academic Affairs guest lecturer, Italy, March 2004
- US State Department Cultural and Academic Affairs guest lecturer, Italy, March 2003
- Research Travel Grant, Institute for European Studies (IES), Cornell, Dec. 2005
- Summer grant to develop First Courses for Sophomore Seminar Program, Knight Writing Program, Cornell, Spring 2001
- USIS visiting lecturer, United States Information Service, Cyprus, May 1999
- Visiting Eminent Scholar in the Humanities,
University of
Alabama, Huntsville, Spring 1996
- Citizen's
Chair in Literature, University of Hawaii, 1992-93
- Distinguished Visiting Cooper Professor, University of Arkansas
(Little Rock), Spring 1988
- Director, National Endowment for the
Humanities Summer Seminar
for College Teachers: "Critical
Perspectives on the Early
Twentieth-Century British Novel,"
1984, 1986, 1988; "Theoretical
and Critical Perspectives on
the Modernist Tradition," 1990,
1993
- Director, National
Endowment for the Humanities Summer Seminar
for Secondary School
Teachers: ``Reading Joyce's Ulysses,''
1985, 1987, 1989,
1991
- Visiting
Scholar, Brasenose College, Oxford University, March
1982
- Visiting Scholar, Girton College, Cambridge University, December
1985
- Academic Specialist Grant for lectures in Australia, United
States Information Service, February 17-March 4, 1993
- President's Fund for Internationalizing the Curriculum to
develop a course entitled ``Multicultural Perspectives on Western
Modernism,'' 1994
- For work on the relationship between
literature and painting,
Institute for European Studies Grant,
1994
- For work on Picasso: Western Society Travel Grant, Spring
1994.
- Member, International Association of University
Professors
of English, 1984-
- For work on Conrad: Cornell
Humanities Faculty Grants for
Research Expenses, 1972, 1974, 1977;
Cornell Humanities Summer
Stipend, 1968, 1970; Cornell English
Department Clark Fund Summer
Stipend, 1971
- For work on
Disraeli: Cornell Center of International Studies,
Summer Stipend,
1973; Cornell Humanities Faculty Grant for Research
Expenses, 1976,
1979; American Philosophical Society Travel Grant,
1981
- For
work on the evolution and transformation of the novel:
Cornell
Humanities Research Grant, 1980, 1983, 1985; Cornell
English
Department Grant-in-Aid, 1982, 1984
- For course development:
Cornell College of Arts and Sciences,
Summer 1975, "The
Political Novel"; Summer 1978, "The
Evolution of British
Literature and Culture, 1885-1925";
Summer 1982,
"Critical Approaches to the Novel"
- Phi Beta Kappa,
Union College, 1963; Magna Cum Laude with
Honors in English, Union
College, 1963; Catlin Prize for Graduate
Study; New York State Graduate Fellowship, 1963 (declined); University Scholarship, Brown, 1963-64; Wilbour Fellowship in English, Brown, 1965-66
