Daniel R. Schwarz is Frederic J. Whiton Professor of English and Stephen H. Weiss Presidential Fellow at Cornell University, where he has taught since 1968. He is the recipient of Cornell's College of Arts and Sciences Russell Award for Distinguished Teaching. Schwarz has published numerous books, including Reading the Modern British and Irish Novel 1890-1934 (2004), Broadway Boogie Woogie: Damon Runyan and the Making of New York City Culture (2003), Rereading Conrad (2001), the critically acclaimed Imagining the Holocaust (1999), Reading Joyce's Ulysses (1987; new ed. 2004), and Reconfiguring Modernism: Explorations in the Relationship Between Modern Art and Modern Literature (1997).