his discussion of Bloom in Reading Joyce's Ulysses. Cultural Studies While maintaining his interest in the above fields, Schwarz has turned his attention to media culture and urban studies in Broadway Boogie Woogie: Damon Runyon and the Making of New York City Culture (2003) and in Endtimes? Crises and Turmoil at the New York Times: 1999-2009. He has also edited Damon Runyon: Guys and Dolls and other Writings for Penguin Classics (2008). Biography Schwarz holds a B.A. from Union College (New York) and an M.A. and Ph.D. from Brown University. His interests include travel, art museums, theater, and sports. He has two sons by his first marriage: David, the women's varsity tennis coach at Claremont College, and Jeffrey, currently working in the mutual fund industry. His wife, Marcia Jacobson, is retired from Auburn University; she is the Hargis Professor of American Literature Emerita. Books Reading the Modern European Novel from 1900 (Malden. MA; Oxford, UK: Wiley-Blackwell, 2018) How to Succeed in College and Beyond: The Art of Learning (Malden, MA; Oxford, UK: Wiley-Blackwell, 2016; trans. into Mandarin with new ch. for Asian students, Beijing: Remnin, 2018) Reading the European Novel to 1900 (Malden, MA; Oxford, UK: Wiley-Blackwell, 2014; paperback 2018) Endtimes? Crises and Turmoil at the New York Times: 1999-2009 (Albany, NY: SUNY Press, 2012; paperback edition with new Preface and new title, Endtimes? Crisis and Turmoil at the New York Times, 2014) In Defense of Reading: Teaching Literature in the Twenty-First Century (Malden, MA; Oxford, UK: Blackwell, 2008) Reading the Modern British and Irish Novel, 1890-1930 (Malden, MA; Oxford, UK: Wiley-Blackwell, 2005) Broadway Boogie Woogie: Damon Runyon and the Making of New York City Culture (New York: Palgrave Macmillan: New York and London, 2003) Rereading Conrad (Columbia, MO: University of Missouri Press, 2001) Imagining the Holocaust (New York: St. Martin's Press; London: Macmillan, 1999) Reconfiguring Modernism: Explorations in the Relationship Between Modern Art and Modern Literature (New York: St. Martin's Press; London: Macmillan, 1997) Narrative and Representation in Wallace Stevens (New York: St. Martin's Press; London: Macmillan, 1993) Chosen by Choice as an outstanding book of 1993. The Case for a Humanistic Poetics (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press; London: Macmillan, 1991) The Transformation of the English Novel, 1890-1930 (New York: St. Martin's Press; London: Macmillan, 1989; revised 1995) Reading Joyce's "Ulysses" (New York: St. Martin's Press; London: Macmillan, 1987; revised 1991,2004) The Humanistic Heritage: Critical Theories of the English