Dr. Dean Swinford Assistant Professor of Medieval and Early Modern Literature   Office : Smith 220 Phone : (910) 672-2425 Email : dswinfor@uncfsu.edu
EDUCATION		University of Florida (Gainesville, FL). Ph.D in Medieval and Early Modern Studies. May 2004. Fields: Medieval and Early Modern Studies, Critical Theory, History of Science and Technology. Director: James J. Paxson Ghent University (Ghent, Belgium). Fulbright Fellow and Visiting Student. Department of French Literature. 2002-03. Sponsor: Fernand Hallyn University of Florida (Gainesville, FL). M.A. in English. May 1999. Thesis: “The Poetics of Irrealism.” Fields: Narrative Theory, World Literature. Florida International University (Miami, FL). B.A. in English. Magna Cum Laude with Honors. December 1995.
PUBLICATIONS		Through the Daemon’s Gate: Kepler’s Somnium, Medieval Dream Narratives, and the Polysemy of Allegorical Motifs. New York: Routledge, 2006. “The Portrait of an Armor-Plated Sign: Reimagining Samsa's Exoskeleton.” in Kafka’s Creatures. Eds. Marc Lucht and Donna Yarri. (Forthcoming) “The Invisible Monster: Italo Calvino and the Contemporary City.” in Approaches to Teaching Italo Calvino. Ed. Franco Ricci. Modern Language Association. (Forthcoming) “Review of Ladina Lambert’s Imagining the Unimaginable: The Poetics of Early Modern Astronomy.” Revue d’Histoire des Sciences 58 (2005): 465-67. “Where the Fusang Grows: A Response to an Interview with Cheryl Glotfelty.” in Writing Environments: Rhetoric, Texts, and the Construction of Nature. Eds. Sid Dobrin and Chris Keller. Albany: SUNY Press, 2004. 279-85. “Review of John Aberth’s A Knight at the Movies: Medieval History on Film.” Journal of Film and Video 56:4 (2004): 54-56. “Form and Representation in Beowulf and Grettis Saga.” Neophilologus 86 (2002): 613-20. “Recursivity: Navigating Composition and Space.” Co-authored with Jason Snart. AGORA: Online Graduate Humanities Journal. 1.1 (2001). “Defining Irrealism: Scientific Development and Allegorical Possibility.” Journal of the Fantastic in the Arts 12.1 (2001): 77-89. “Over-Reading: Implications for Humanities Teaching.” Eds. Dean Swinford and Jason Snart. Special issue of Inventio: Creative Thinking About Learning and Teaching. Spring 2003. . “J.G. Ballard.” Contemporary Novelists. 7th ed. Eds. Neil Schlager and Josh Lauer. Detroit: St. James Press, 2001. 56-60. Eighteen articles in Science and Its Times: Understanding the Social Significance of Scientific Discovery Vol.1-3. Eds. Neil Schlager and Josh Lauer. Detroit: Gale Group, 2001.
TEACHING COURSES		Shakespeare and Film (Shakespeare: ENGL 411) Survey of Medieval and Early Modern British Literature (British Literature I: ENGL 311) Survey of Early American Literature (American Literature I: ENGL 321) World Literature II: Romanticism, Realism, Surrealism (World Literature II: ENGL 212) The Ancient World, Middle Ages, and the Renaissance (World Literature I: ENGL 211) Environmental Issues Learning Community (College Writing I: ENGL 110) Writing the 2008 Presidential Election (College Writing II: ENGL 120)
RESEARCH INTERESTS		Medieval and Early Modern Studies Critical Theory History of Science and Technology World Literature