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Faculty
Peter Schwenger
Master's Membership
Resident Fellow; Adjunct Professor
Emeritus Professor of English, Mount St. Vincent University
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Education: BA, Carleton College; MA, Cornell; PhD, Yale
Research Interests
Theories of reading and of writing; asemic writing; interdisciplinary studies; visual arts. Books: Phallic Critiques: Masculinity and Twentieth-century Literature (Routledge 1964); Letter Bomb: Nuclear Holocaust and the Exploding Word (Johns Hopkins, 1991); Fantasm and Fiction: On Textual Envisioning (Stanford, 1999); The Tears of Things: Melancholy and Physical Objects (Minnesota, 2006); At the Borders of Sleep: On Liminal Literature (Minnesota, 2012).
