Daniel Swift
Assistant Professor
B.A., University of Oxford
Ph.D., Columbia University
Office: Palamountain 335
Phone: (518) 580-8395
Email: dswift@skidmore.edu
Teaching and Research Interests:
- Shakespeare
- Early Modern Literature
- Religion and Literature
- The Second World War
Courses Taught:
- SSP 100 - The Good War?
- EN 105 - Political Fictions
- EN 110 - Introduction to Literary Studies
- EN 225 - Introduction to Shakespeare
- EN 229 - Introduction to Early Modern Literature
- EN 229 - Literature of the Second World War
- EN 343 - Elizabethan and Jacobean Drama
- EN 346 - Shakespeare:Tragedies
Selected Publications:
- "To the Letter." Financial Times, 15 August 2009.
- "As We Like Him." Financial Times, 17 November 1007.
- "History Boy." The Nation, 25 January 2007
- "A Writer's Life: A Profile of Deborah Eisenberg." Daily Telegraph, 22 July 2006
- "Fallen God of Small Things: A Profile of Norman Mailer."Financial Times, 14 April 2006.
- "Bad Will Hunting." The Nation, 13 March 2006
- "New is the New New." Bookforum, October 2005
- "The Poet of Autobiography." New York Times Book Review, 27 February 2005
- "Golden Didion." Times Literary Supplement, 9 April 2004.
- "Letter from New York." Times Literary Supplement, 5 October 2001.
Books:
- Shakespeare's Common Prayers (2012, Oxford Univeristy Press)
- Bomber County (2010, Farrar, Straus, and Giroux/Hamish Hamilton) Longlisted for the Guardian First Book Award and the Samuel Johnson Prize.
