Harold Schweizer
Prof of EnglishAbout Harold Schweizer
Harold Schweizer teaches courses in modern poetry, literary theory, holocaust studies, representations of suffering, and the comparative humanities.
Educational Background
- Ph.D., University of Zürich
Teaching Interests
- Literary theory
- Modern and contemporary poetry
- Humanities
- History of ideas
- Holocaust studies
Scholarly Interests
- Modern poetry
- Literary theory
- Studies in suffering and representation
- Comparative humanities
Recent Awards
- John P. Crozer Chair in English Literature (2006-2011)
Selected Publications
ARTICLES
"Waiting as Resistance: Lingering, Loafing, and Whiling Away." Sociologia Internationalis (2016).
"To Suffer to Wait: Reading Trauma in Two Poems." Journal of Literature and Trauma Studies (2014).
"Are We Not Beautiful?" Nineteenth Century Prose (2013).
"Literary Autonomy: Growth of a Modern Concept." Cambridge History of Criticism: The 19th Century (2013).
"The Accident and the Beautiful: On Alan Shapiro's "The Accident." Literature and Medicine (2012).
BOOKS
The Genealogy of Elevators: A Fable (Spuyten Duyvil, 2018)
Miriam's Book: A Poem (Fomite, 2017)
The Book of Stones and Angels (Tupelo, 2015).
Rarity and the Poetic: The Gesture of Small Flowers (Palgrave Macmillan, 2015).
On Waiting (Routledge, 2008).
POEMS IN:
AGNI, American Poetry Review, Cincinnati Review, Diode, The Georgia Review, Kenyon Review, Missouri Review, Narrative, The New Orleans Review, Pleiades, Poetry International, etc.