John Swift
Associate Dean for Curriculum and Student Issues; English and Comparative Literary Studies; Core Program; Advisory Committee, Urban and Environmental Policy
Swift's main field of teaching and research is late 19th- and early 20th-century British and American literature. He also taught for many years an interdisciplinary course on Los Angeles in Occidental's cultural studies program.
Contact
- Office: Swan Hall Room 232
- Email: swiftj@oxy.edu
- Phone: (323) 259-2804
- Office Hours: M/W/F 8:30-9:30
Department Chair, Core Program
Education: B.A., Middlebury College M.A., Ph.D., University of Virginia
Swift's major research projects have involved the American novelist Willa Cather and her cultural/historical context. He has a longstanding interest in undergraduate research in the humanities.
He was the founding president of the board of directors of the Southern California Conferences for Undergraduate Research, and he has been a member of the board of governors of the National Conference on Undergraduate Research. He has also served as Occidental's associate dean of faculty and faculty president.