
Writing, Literature & Publishing Faculty
Murray SchwartzProfessor (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. |


