Dr. John Swift
John N.
Swift (Ph. D. University of Virginia) is
Professor of English and Comparative
Literary Studies. His main field of teaching
and research is late 19th and early 20th
century British and American literature. He
has published on writers ranging from John
Milton to D. H. Lawrence and Jack London,
but his major research projects have
involved the American novelist Willa Cather
and her cultural/historical context. Among
his recent publications are an edited
collection of essays, Willa Cather and
the American Southwest (University of
Nebraska Press, 2002), and "Fictions of
Possession in The Professor's House,"
a chapter in the Cambridge Companion to
Willa Cather (Cambridge University
Press, 2005). He teaches courses in modern
British and American fiction and poetry, in
psychoanalytic approaches to literature, and
in general American literary history; he
also taught for many years in an
interdisciplinary course on Los Angeles in
the Cultural Studies Program. He has served
as Associate Dean of the Faculty and
Occidental's Faculty Council President.
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