Daniel Swift

B.A., University of Oxford 
Ph.D., Columbia University

Office: Palamountain 335
Phone:(518) 580-8395
Email: dswift@skidmore.edu

• 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.