Harold Schweizer

227 Vaughan Literature
(570) 577-1892
harold.schweizer@bucknell.edu

Harold Schweizer (Ph.D. Zürich) teaches courses in modern poetry, literary theory, holocaust studies, representations of suffering, and the comparative humanities.

Teaching Interests

Literary Theory, Modern and Contemporary Poetry, Humanities, History of Ideas, Holocaust Studies

Current Projects and Research Interests

Studies in the Medical Humanities

Selected Publications

On Waiting, (London: Routledge 2008).

“Literary Autonomy: Growth of a Modern Concept,” Cambridge History of Criticism: The 19th Century (Cambridge University Press, 2009).

Review Essay on Double Vision: Moral Philosophy and Shakespearean Drama by Tzachi Zamir, Partial Answers 6, 2 (Summer 2008).

"Of Angels,” Cincinnati Review (Spring 2009).

“Of Stones and Angels,” The American Poetry Review (May / June 2008).

"Of Movements and Signs,” The New Orleans Review 33, 2 (Winter 2007/08).

Recent Awards

John P. Crozer Chair in English Literature (2006-2011)