Articles
Articles
Kelly Swartz (2022). "The New Realism of Literary Generalization in Richardson's Clarissa." The Eighteenth Century: Theory and Interpretation 63.1. Forthcoming.
Kelly Swartz (2017). Eighteenth-Century Fiction 30.1, 1-23.
Associate Professor
English, College of Arts and Sciences
Harvey Hall 208
516.877.4033
kswartz@adelphi.edu
Ph.D., Princeton University (2017)
M.F.A. in Poetry, University of California, Irvine (2009)
B.A., Dartmouth College (2005)
Constructing Canons
Modern Condition I
Modern Condition II
Literature of the Long Eighteenth Century
The History of the Novel
Science Fiction
Queer and Trans Studies
Literature and Science
Eighteenth-Century Literature and Philosophy
History of Science
Queer and Trans Studies
Literary Cities Study Abroad Course
2019 -- York and London, United Kingdom
Kelly Swartz (2024). "Enlightenment Literature as Trans Literature." . Edited by Douglas A. Vakoch and Sabine Sharp. Forthcoming.
Kelly Swartz (2022). "The New Realism of Literary Generalization in Richardson's Clarissa." The Eighteenth Century: Theory and Interpretation 63.1. Forthcoming.
Kelly Swartz (2017). Eighteenth-Century Fiction 30.1, 1-23.
"Phenomenology and the Novel," American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies, St. Louis, MO, March 2023.
“The Stretches / The Archives,” American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies, Baltimore, MD, April 2022.
“Ian Watt and New Realisms,” American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies, Toronto, ON, April 2021 (on Zoom).
“Dismantling and Rebuilding the 18th-century British Literature Survey," Northeast Modern Language Association (NEMLA), Philadelphia, PA, March 2021 (on Zoom).
“What Does Clarissa Know About Sexual Violence?,” American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies, Denver, CO, March 2019.
"Clarissa's Devastating Truths." American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies, Orlando, FL, March 2018.
“Sententiousness and Suffering in Samuel Richardson’s Clarissa and Jonathan Edwards’s Images or Shadows of Divine Things." Northeast American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies, Amherst, MA, 2016.
“Copying the Maxim of Clarissa." American Comparative Literature Association, Seattle, WA, April 2015.
“Aphoristic Time." American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies, Los Angeles, CA, March 2015.
“Experimental Maxims in English Satire from Francis Bacon to Samuel Richardson." Laughter and Satire in Europe 1500-1800, University of Warwick in Venice, May 2014.
“Maxims, Madmen, and Misanthropes: Francis Bacon Meets Jonathan Swift." American Comparative Literature Association, University of Toronto, April 2013.
“The Eighteenth-Century Moral Maxim: Fact, Fiction, Form." American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies, San Antonio, TX, March 2012.
Respondent to Sandra Macpherson's paper, "Sex Form: Thoughts on Catastrophe," for the symposium "Form and History." Princeton University, December 2016.
Respondent to papers by Elaine Auyoung, Deidre Lynch, and Sophie Gee for the symposium “Believing What We Read: Fiction and Credulity in the Long Eighteenth Century." Princeton University, October 2015.
Review of Abigail Zitin's Practical Form: Abstraction, Technique, and Beauty in Eighteenth-Century Aesthetics (Yale University Press, 2020) for Genre 55.1 (2022): 79-83.
“Unspotted Lines: Women’s Commonplace Books in 1740s England,” The Center & Clark Library Newsletter 67 (Fall 2018).
“Butter,” “New,” and “Vacation.” Washington Square (Summer/Fall 2011): 63-65.
“Others on the Page: Review of Poetry Collections by Arda Collins and Nomi Stone.” The Cincinnati
Review 7.1 (2010): 171-179.
"North Baltimore.” The Midwest Quarterly 51.1 (2009): 66.
“Snow,” “Tender.” The Cincinnati Review 5.2 (Winter 2009): 156-157.
Dean鈥檚 Fund for Scholarly Travel (through the Whiting Foundation), Princeton University, 2015.
Humanities Research Grant, University of California, Irvine, 2007.
ASECS Fellowship, Clark Library, University of California, Los Angeles, July 2018
Cotsen Junior Fellowship, Princeton University, 2015 - 2016
Teagle Teaching Fellowship, Princeton University, 2014 - 2015
Charlotte Elizabeth Procter Honorific Fellowship, Princeton University, 2013 - 2014
Graduate Prize Fellowship, Center for Human Values, Princeton University, 2012 - 2013
Donald and Dorothy Strauss Endowed Thesis Fellowship, University of California, Irvine, 2008 - 2009
Academy of American Poets Prize, University of California, Irvine, 2007
Non-Resident Tuition Fellowship, University of California, Irvine, 2006 - 2007
Stanley Prize for Graduate Education, Dartmouth College, 2006