Daniel R. Schwarz

Daniel R. Schwarz (born May 12, 1941) is Frederick J. Whiton Professor of English Literature and Stephen H. Weiss Presidential Fellow at Cornell University, where he has taught since 1968. He has directed nine NEH seminars and has lectured widely in the United States and abroad, including a number of lecture tours under the auspices of the academic programs of the USIS and the State Department. He was a founding member of the Society for the Study of Narrative Literature and served as its President from 1990 to 1991. He has held three endowed visiting professorships (at the University of Arkansas, Little Rock, 1989; the University of Hawaii, 1992–93; and the University of Alabama, Huntsville, 1996). He was a guest Fellow for short periods at Oxford (Brasenose) and Cambridge (Girton) in the UK. He has been the President of the Cornell Phi Beta Kappa chapter since 2009. He is the author of eighteen significant books and numerous articles, many of which have appeared in prestigious journals and collections of essays.

He has received recognition as an outstanding teacher. In 1998 he received Cornell's College of Arts and Sciences Russell award for distinguished teaching; the Weiss title, awarded by the University in 1999, further honors his teaching.

His former graduate students and NEH participants put together a festschrift in his honor in 2012, titled ''Reading Texts, Reading Live: Essays in the Tradition of Humanistic Cultural Criticism in Honor of Daniel R. Schwarz'' (University of Delaware Press, 2012). In March 2018, Cornell celebrated his 50 years of teaching at the university with a conference in his honor.

He has in recent years blogged for Huffington on current political and social issues and on higher education. His book, ''How to Succeed in College and Beyond'' (2016) developed in part from his Huffington and other articles. Provided by Wikipedia