Bernard Schweizer

Bernard Schweizer (né Bernhard Schweizer, 1962-) is an associate professor of English at Long Island University, Brooklyn, specializing in twentieth-century British Literature. He has authored and edited several books, including two monographs and two scholarly essay collections, and he has edited some of Rebecca West’s previously unpublished and uncollected works. In 2003, he founded the [http://www.rebeccawestsociety.org International Rebecca West Society] in New York, and he is currently the second president of the Society. Schweizer wrote pioneering scholarly works in three fields: the politics of travel literature, the female epic, and the treatment of god-hatred in literature (misotheism).

Schweizer grew up in the German-speaking part of Switzerland, where he lived for the first 28 years of his life. From 1978-82 he trained as a health-care specialist in Bern. Thereafter, he studied for the Swiss Federal Bacchalaureate (Matura), which he earned in 1986. From 1987-1988, he spent 14 months backpacking around the world. After two years at the University of Lausanne, in the French-speaking part of Switzerland, he emigrated to the United States in 1990, attending the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities, as a B.A. student in English. In 1991, he married Liang Schweizer, a biologist, in St. Paul. He earned his Ph.D. in English Literature from Duke University in 1997. For the next three years, he held a teaching and research appointment at the University of Zurich, Switzerland. In 1999, Schweizer was awarded a two-year Swiss National Science Foundation fellowship to conduct research on Rebecca West. In 2002, he was offered a faculty position at the Brooklyn campus of Long Island University and has received tenure there in 2007.

Works

Monographs:
* [http://www.upress.virginia.edu/books/schweizer.html "Radicals on the Road: The Politics of English Travel Writing in the 1930s"] (University of Virginia Press, 2001)
* [http://www.greenwood.com/catalog/GM2360.aspx "Rebecca West: Heroism, Rebellion, and the Female Epic"] (Greenwood, 2002)

Essay Collections
* [http://www.ashgate.com/default.aspx?page=637&calcTitle=1&title_id=8389&edition_id=8998 "Approaches to the Anglo and American Female Epic"] (Ashgate, 2006)
* [http://www2.lib.udel.edu/udpress/rebecca.htm "Rebecca West Today: Contemporary Critical Approaches"] (University of Delaware Press, 2007)

Editions of Rebecca West:
* [http://yalepress.yale.edu/yupbooks/book.asp?isbn=0300105215 "Survivors in Mexico"] by Rebecca West (Yale University Press, 2003)
* [http://www.iuniverse.com/bookstore/book_detail.asp?isbn=0-595-36535-3 "Woman as Artist and Thinker"] by Rebecca West (iUniverse, 2005).

External links

* [http://myweb.brooklyn.liu.edu/bschweiz/Homepage.html Bernard Schweizer's homepage]