Faculty

Jim Swan

Associate Professor
Office: 513 Clemens
Phone number: 645-2575
E-mail address: jswan@buffalo.edu 
Personal web site

 

Interests:

16th & 17th Century British Literature, Shakespeare, Media, Literature & Science, Literature & Disability, Psychoanalysis

Courses taught:

  • Literature & Psychology (Cognitive, Medical and Biological Discourses), Shakespeare, Milton, Elizabethan & Jacobean Drama, Renaissance Stage: Power and Spectacle, 17th Century Literature, Renaissance Poetry, Renaissance Prose, Ovid and Renaissance Poetry, Landscape and Poetry, Pastoral, Radical Protestant Writers, Field Seminar in Literature and Society (for dissertation writers), Short Fiction, Utopia & Dystopia. Literature & Science

Work in progress:

  • Translation, Adaptation, Prosody: Sidney and Pound.
  • Being and Belonging: Oliver Sacks’s Existential Biology.
  • Shakespeare’s Properties: Inheritance, Law, and the Subject.
  • Prisoner of Consciousness: Narrative and Autobiography without Memory.

Selected publications:

"'Life without Parole': Metaphor and Discursive Commitment," Style 36 (2003): 446-465.

"Disabilities, Bodies, Voices." In Disability Studies: Enabling the Humanities. Edited by Brenda Jo Brueggemann, Rosemarie Garland Thomson and Sharon Snyder. New York: MLA Press, 2002: 283-95.

Review of Keith Devlin, Goodbye, Descartes: The End of Logic and the Search for a New Cosmology of the Mind (1997). Minds and Machines 10 (2000): 409-416.

"Touching Words: Helen Keller, Plagiarism, Authorship." In The Construction of Authorship: Textual Appropriation in Literature and Law. Edited by Peter Jaszi and Martha Woodmansee. Durham: Duke UP, 1994: 57-100. [Orig. publ. in Cardozo Arts & Entertainment Law Journal, 10.2 (1992): 321-64; available online: http://www.cardozoaelj.net/issues/92/Swan.pdf].

"Hamlet and the Technology of the Mind's Eye." Proceedings of the Seventh International Conference on Literature and Psychology. Lisbon, Portugal: Instituto Superior de Psicologia Aplicada, 1991: 87-101.

"Difference and Silence: John Milton and the Question of Gender." In The (M)other Tongue: Essays in Feminist Psychoanalytic Interpretation. Edited by Shirley Garner, Claire Kahane, and Madelon Sprengnether. Ithaca: Cornell UP, 1985: 142-68.

"Mater and Nannie: Freud’s Two Mothers and the Discovery of the Oedipus Complex,"American Imago 31 (1974): 1-64; available online: http://www.acsu.buffalo.edu/~jswan/Freuds2mothers.htm.