Daniel R. Schwarz
Curriculum Vitae

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SERVICE

• Department
• College of Arts and Sciences
• Cornell University
• Professional
• Community

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Department

• Executive Committee, 2017-2018
• Faculty Advisor, English Club (now Literary Society) 2003-
• Director of Undergraduate Studies, 1976-80
• Acting Chair, Summer 1981
• Chair, Awards Committee, 2010-2012
• Faculty Mentor to Assistant Professor, 2011-12
• Chair, Curriculum Committee, 1977-80; member, 1983-84
• Chair, Travel and Grant-in-Aid Committee, 1981-85
• Appointments Committee, 1981-83, 1989-90, 1996-97, 2001-2, 2007-8, 2013-14
• Chair, 1996-97
• Undergraduate Outreach Committee, 2013-14
• Graduate Committee, 1971-74, 1994-95; Chair. 1971-74
• Graduate Admissions Committee, 1985-86, 1986-87, 1988-89, 1990-91
• Director of Honors, 2003-2007
• Honors Committee, 1968-71, 1974-75, 2003-07, 2007-08
• Honors Essay Prize Committee, 1970, 1971, 1975, 2004
  Chair, 2004-2007
• Assistant Chair, Honors Committee, 1970-71
• Secretary, Department of English, 1970-71
• Director of Department's participation in Undergraduate Research
Assistant Program and Work-Study Program, 1972-76
• Committee on Teacher Evaluation Procedures, 1972
• Faculty-Graduate Student Council, 1973-74, 1993-94
Chair 1993-94
• Budget Review Committee, 1979
• Chair, Committee on Review and Promotions Procedures, 1980
• Chair, Summer Session EOW Committee, 1980-81
• member, 1983-84
• Committee to Review Secondary Teaching Program and MAT Program, 1980
• Committee to Review Salary Policy, 1985-86
• Freshman Seminar Committee, 1988-89
• Co-director (with Molly Hite) of Twentieth-Century Colloquium, 1991-92
• Chair, Summer School Committee, 1994-95
• Development and Faculty Alumni Relations Committee, 1997-2002, 2007-08
Chair, 1997-1999, 2007-08
• Chair, Lecturer Policy Committee, 1997-98
• Committee to Review English Major, Fall 1998
• North and West Campus Initiative, 2000-01
• Faculty Advisor, English Club, 2003-
• Faculty Mentor, New Graduate Students, 2001-02, 2003-04, 2007-8
• Chair, Tony Caputi Memorial Statement, 2008.
• Chair, Cushing Strout Memorial Statement, 2014.
• Chair, Phillip Marcus Memorial Statement, 2015
• Member, Edgar Rosenberg Memorial Statement Committee, 2016.

College of Arts and Sciences

• President, Cornell Phi Beta Kappa chapter, 2009-
• Chair, Phi Beta Kappa Scholarship Prize Committee, 2017-
• Cornell Delegate, Triennial Phi Beta Conference
• Austin, Texas, Oct. 2009.
• Denver, Oct. 2015.
• Advising Research projects of two Dean’s scholars, summer 2020 and 2020-21
• Arts and Sciences Freshmen Advising Seminar, 2018
• Freshmen Advising Seminar fall, 2018
• Mentor, various undergraduate research programs, 1985-
• Admissions Committee, 1984, 1985, 2003, 2015, 2019-20
• Dean's Advisory Committee on Appointments, 1980-83
• Director, Advanced Placement in English, 1977-88
• Committee to consider a Theatre Arts Department promotion to full professor, 1987
• Board of Undergraduate Education, 1976-78
  • Board of Undergraduate Education's Subcommittee on New Faculty, 1977
• Committee on New Faculty, 1977-82
  •  Chair, 1979-82
• Dean's Financial Planning Committee, 1972
• Curriculum Review Committee, 1971
• College Grading Committee, 1971-74
• College Scholar Advisory Board, 1971-73 , 2010-
• Independent Majors Advisory Board, 1973-74
• Interviewer for Arts College Admissions
• Freshman Advising Committee, 1978
• Clark Teaching Assistant Award Committee, 1977
• Board of Women's Studies, 1972-73
• Speaker, Arts College Admission, 1982
• Freshman Honors Committee, 1982
• External member of Search Committee, Asian Studies, 1990-91
• Wood Fellowship (Institute for European Studies) Committee, 1994
• Dean's Scholar Research Program, summer 1996, 2002
• Faculty Advisor, Modern European Studies Program, 1996-
• Arts College Liason, Cornell Varsity Tennis Team, 1996-
• Russell Award for Distinguished Teaching Prize Committee, 1999-2001
• Sophomore Seminar Pilot Project, summer 2001
  

Cornell University

• Faculty Mentor, Laidlaw Program, 2021.
• Classes Selected for Big Red Teaching Days March 3-7, 2020.
• Vice Provost for Undergraduate Education’s Two-Person Committee (with Rosemary Avery) to integrate Weiss Presidential Fellows into Living-Learning Initiatives, 2017-
• Cornell University Committee to Review the Greek System
  • "Fraternity and Sorority Pursuit of Excellence," 2016-2017
• Cornell University Retirement Plan Oversight Committee, 2013-
  • Sub-Committee on Investment Choices, 2013-
• Cornell University Retirement Plan Advisory Committee, 2012-
  • Chair, 2013-
• Flora Rose House Fellow, 2010-
• Johnson Art Museum Fellow, Cornell University, 2010-2016
• Johnson Art Museum, Faculty Advisory Council, 2012-
• Discussion Leader, Teaching for Excellence Luncheons (Many Times), 2010-
• Supervisor and Mentor, Visiting Research Scholar, 2010-12, 2021
• Co-Coordinator (with Leslie Sadler, 2000-2007; with Mimi Benjamin 2007-2011; Laurie Fuller, 2011-13; Ethan Stephenson, 2013-) Weiss Presidential
  • Fellows-Campus Life Partnership (Program that I co-developed with Susan Murphy and LeNorman Strong and now administered under Laura Brown), 2000-
• Faculty Advisor, Men's Varsity Tennis team, 1998-2015
• Rawlings Presidential Research Scholar Faculty Mentor, 1999-2025 (Two freshman selected me to begin Jan, 2025)
• Faculty, Telluride Summer Program, 1972
• Faculty, Cornell Adult University, 1982, 1992, 1994, 1995, 1996, 1998, 2000, 2001
• Faculty Fellow, 1985-1986, 1998-99
• Faculty Council of Representatives, 1973-74
• Freshman Orientation Program, 1969-70; 1970-71
• Academic Integrity Hearing Board, 1976-78
• Chair, Guilford Prize Committee (PhD Dissertations), 1975, 1986, 1987;
  • member, 1975, 1985-87
• Chair, Andrews Prize Committee (Short Stories), 1978, 1990;
  • member, 1976-78, 1989-
• Chair, Gottschalk Memorial Lecture Committee, 1983-85; 1989-92
  •  member, 1979-85
• Advanced Placement Advisory Board, 1981-88
• Mentor, Ford-Mellon Summer Exchange Program for Minorities, 1985, 1991
• Participant, Cornell Committee on Education and the Community, Conference of English Teachers, March 1987
• Faculty Member, Institute for European Studies, 1985-
  English department Coordinator and Faculty Advisor, 1990-
• Faculty Member, Jewish Studies Program, 1995-
• Member, Mario Einaudi Prize Committee (Western Societies Program), 1989-90
• Member, Robert Chasen Poetry Prize Committee, 1992
  • Chair, 1994
• Member, George Harmon Coxe Award Committee in American Literature, 2008-2009
• Faculty Senate, Spring 1997
• Planning and Steering Group, Academic Leadership Series, 1997-2001
• Ehrenberg Subcommittee on Retirement issues, 1997-98
• Retirement Investment Option Advisory Committee, 1998-
• Faculty Committee on Athletics and Physical Education (FACAPE), 1998-
• Faculty Senate Committee on the Undergaduate Experience, 1998-99
• Speaker, Cornell Alumni Federation Series, 1997-
• University Assembly (appointed by Faculty Senate), 2000-01
• Living Learning House/Faculty Dining Program Focus Group, Jan. 2001.
• Cybertower (Cornell on the Web) Site Development Project, 1999-2001;
• Cybertower Site ("Imagining the Holocaust"), 2001-
• Cybertower Site, "Reading Joyce's Ulysses, 2003-
• Weiss Presidential Fellow Selection Committee, 2001-2
• Discussion Leader, Freshman Reading Program:
  Aeschylus, Antigone, Aug. 2003;
  Kafka's The Trial, Aug. 2004;
  Achebe's Things Fall Apart, Aug, 2005
  Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby, Aug. 2006,
  Gordimer's The Pickup, Aug. 2007,
  Will's Lincoln at Gettysburg, Aug. 2008.
• Faculty Participant, Outside Review and Long Range Planning, Cornell Library, Fall 2003
• Faculty Participant, Mansdorf Faculty-Student Dinners, 2003-
• Fulbright Fellowship Committee, 2005, 2007, 2021

Professional

• NEH review panel for Summer stipends, 1986
• Referee, The Margaret Church Modern Fiction Studies Prize, 1985-87
• Advisory Board, Hong Kong Review, 2018
• Society for the Study of Narrative Literature
  • Founding member, 1984
  • Nominating Committee, 1984-87
         Chair, 1986-87
  • Executive Council, 1986-88
  • Second Vice President, 1988-89
  • First Vice President, 1989-90
  • President, 1990-91 (Conference Host, Nice, June 2001)
  • Executive Committee, 1992-93
  • International Conference Program Committee (Vancouver), 1994
• Reader, university and commercial presses and scholarly journals, including PMLA
• Cornell-Hampton Program, both semesters, 1968-69
• Outside Referee for tenure and promotion decisions at other universities
• Referee, research proposals at other universities
• Referee, national fellowship competitions
• Referee, MLA
• Referee, many journals and university presses
• Editorial Board, Conradiana, 1983-1988
• Editorial Board (Associate Editor), Journal of Narrative Technique, 1984-1992
• Speaker, New York State Council for the Humanities Program, 1988-
• Advisory Board, Twentieth Century British Literature Monograph Series, 1988
• Advisory Board, Yeats-Eliot Review, 1988-
• Outside Referee, Ohio State Graduate School Forum in the Humanities, 1988
• Panelist, "NEH Panel on Seminar Applicant Research Proposals and Selection Procedures," NEH Directors Conference, Washington, DC, October 1987
• Referee, Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council for Canada
• Referee, Zenith National Computer Competition (Humanities Division), 1991-1993
• Editorial Board, Weber Studies: An Interdisciplinary Humanities Journal, 1991-
• Editorial Board, Narrative, 1992-
• Referee, NEH Division on Preservation and Access Grants, 1992
• Referee, NEH Division of Research Programs, 1992, 1994, 1999, 2001
• Advisory Board, Studies in the Novel, 1998-2006

Community

• Daniel R. Schwarz and Marcia Jacobson Conference Room in Tompkins Country Library, named in our honor, Oct. 12, 2017; ceremony and ribbon cutting, June 25, 2018.
• Honoree, with my wife Marcia, Jacobson, Tompkins Country Library, Nov, 17, 2011. Celebrating Eleven years of the Marcia Jacobson and Daniel R. Schwarz Book Fund.
• Reader and fundraiser, Tompkins County Library Readathon, Sept. 28, 2013; Sept. 27, 2014; Sept. 29, 2018
• Marcia Jacobson-Daniel R. Schwarz Book Fund (Tompkins Country Library), 2000-
• Tompkins County Library Advisory Board, 2006-
• Marcia Jacobson-Daniel R. Schwarz Art Purchase Fund (Johnson Museum, Cornell University), 2000-
• President, Black Oak Town House Community, 1994-96, 1997-99, 2001-2003, 2005-8
  Co-President, 2015-16,2016-2018
  Board member 1991-1996, 1997-2003, 2005-10, 2015-18
• Consultant (with Marcia Jacobson), Hanger Theater Production, “All The Great Books (Abridged),” Aug. 2007.
• Freeville Planning Board, 1971-74
• Freeville Zoning Board, 1972-74

Copyright © Daniel R. Schwarz, 2011