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Faculty

The Institute Faculty Speakers Bureau lists full- and part-time faculty members, their areas of scholarly and professional expertise, who teach in the Institute and are interested and available as guest lecturers to classes, consultants to the community, and collaborators on projects.

Murray Schwartz
Professor (1997)
B.A., University of Rochester; M.A., University of California, Berkeley; Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley

Dr. Schwartz is a specialist in Shakespeare whose interests include literary theory, psychoanalysis, and Holocaust studies. He co-edited Representing Shakespeare: New Psychoanalytic Essays. Other major publications include Memory and Desire: Psychoanalysis, Literature, Aging (with Kathleen Woodward), A Thematic Introduction to Shakespeare, Erik Erikson, Where is Literature?, and Know Thyself: Delphi Seminars (with Norman Holland), as well as many essays on Shakespeare, theoretical and applied psychoanalysis, and poets such as Sylvia Plath. His essays on Shakespearean Romance appeared in Psyart, an online journal he co-edits with Holland. Dr. Schwartz is currently at work on a psychoanalytic study of the Holocaust, an essay on theories of trauma, and the completion of a biography (with Peggy Schwartz) of the African-American dancer and anthropologist, Pearl Primus. 


Full Time Faculty

Deirdre Conlon, Scholar-In-Residence

Diana Sherry, Scholar-In-Residence


Mirta Tocci, Artist-in-Residence

Erika Williams, Scholar-In-Residence

Departmental Faculty Who Teach in the Institute
John Anderson
Elizabeth Baeten
Flora Gonzalez
Roger House
Mark Leccese
Wyatt Oswald
Melinda Robins
Murray Schwartz
James Sheldon
Stephen Shipps
Part Time Faculty
Amy Aroopala
Matthew Battles
Steven Beeber
Gaynor Blandford
James Byrne
Claudia Castaneda
Robert Dulgarian
Lance Eaton
Nigel Gibson
John Hodge
Alden Jones
Cynthia Miller
Roseanne Montillo
Jason Roush
Meta Wagner
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