Dr. Dean Swinford Assistant Professor of English   Office : Williams 205 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		Books Through the Daemon's Gate: Kepler's Somnium, Medieval Dream Narratives, and the Polysemy of Allegorical Motifs. New York: Routledge, 2006 (Paperback, 2010). Articles “Stellification and Poetic Ascent in The House of Fame." Modern Philology (Forthcoming). “'Dream Interpretation and the Organic Metaphor of the State in John of Salisbury's Policraticus." The Journal of Medieval Religious Cultures 38.1 (2012): 32-59. "''These Were My Ceremonies, These My Rites': Magical Summoning in Johannes Kepler's Somnium." The Mediaeval Journal 2.1 (2012): 59-76. “'Some Beastlike Fungus': The Natural and Animal in John Gardner's Grendel." LIT: Literature Interpretation Theory 22.4 (2011): 323-335. “Transforming the Trickster in Chaucer's Wife of Bath's Tale." in The Trickster (Bloom's Literary Themes). Eds. Harold Bloom and Blake Hobby. New York: Chelsea House, 2010. 229-39. “The Portrait of an Armor-Plated Sign: Reimagining Samsa's Exoskeleton.” in Kafka’s Creatures: Animals, Hybrids, and Other Fantastic Beings. Eds. Marc Lucht and Donna Yarri. Lanham: Rowman and Littlefield, 2010. 211-36. "Analyzing Urban Space in Invisible Cities." Academic Exchange Quarterly 13.2 (2009): 192-97. “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. “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. .
TEACHING COURSES		Medieval Worlds (Medieval Literature: ENGL 623) Utopias and Dystopias (Senior Seminar: ENGL 470) 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)
RESEARCH INTERESTS		Medieval and Early Modern Studies Critical Theory History of Science and Technology World Literature