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
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-
Advisory Board, Studies in the Novel, 1999-
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.