Department of English

Daniel Schwartz

PhD - ABD

M.A. in Philosophy, Tufts University, 2019
B.A. in English, Harvard University, 2016
danielschwartz@brandeis.edu

Research Interests

Modernism, Poetics, Philosophy

Publications

"Is There an Underground Man: Depsychologized Interiority in Dostoevsky and Wittgenstein," Studies in the Novel (forthcoming).

"Philosophy and Offense from Kant to De Selby: Transcendental (Ir)realism in Flann O’ Brien’s The Third Policeman,” Philosophy and Literature (forthcoming).

“An Extremist’s Exercise: What We Can and Cannot Think and Say with Wallace Stevens,” Texas Studies in Literature and Language (forthcoming in 67.1: Spring 2025).

"The (Not-So-) Private Mind: Why Faulkner’s The Sound and the Fury Is and Is Not a Failure." Partial Answers: Journal of Literature and the History of Ideas. January 2024.

Once Upon a Time. Unlock the Clockcase, 2023.

“An Abrahamic Double Bind: An Examination of the Possibility of Faith in Crime and Punishment,” Slavonic and East European Review, Volume 101, Number 2, April 2023.

Review: "On Wittgenstein and Modernist Fiction: The Language of Acknowledgement by Greg Chase." On the Seawall, 2022.

"The Folly of Existing." On The Seawall, 2021.

Review: "On Seeing Silence by Mark C. Taylor." On The Seawall, 2021.

Review: "On The Lost Writings by Franz Kafka, translated by Michael Hofmann." On The Seawall, 2020.

Presentations

"What We Cannot Say: The Stevensian Imperative,” NeMLA, Niagara Falls, NY; March, 2023.

“An Abrahamic Double Bind: An Examination of the Possibility of Faith in Crime and Punishment.” The 2022 North American Dostoevsky Society Graduate Research Forum. Honorable Mention North American Dostoevsky Society Graduate Essay Contest.

Courses Taught

ENG 31a, "What Is It Like To Be An Animal: Other Minds in Literature," Brandeis University, Fall 2023.

Favorite Work

The Trial by Franz Kafka, Daniel Deronda by George Eliot