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My writing and teaching focus on interdisciplinary subjects,
particularly culture as pedagogy, both in and out of the
classroom. Drawing on research practices in cultural and media
studies, I'm interested in the contexts in which teaching and
learning take place and how the emergence of new media/popular
culture is changing the face of both.
I work across disciplinary boundaries and
encourage graduate students to do so -- my courses typically
include texts from a range of fields and perspectives. I joined
the education faculty in 2006. Previously I taught at a private
school emphasizing the humanities and arts, at the University of
Iowa in an interdisciplinary graduate program, and as professor
of journalism and mass communication at the University of
Minnesota.
Selected publications:
Anson, C., Beach, R., Breuch, L., & Swiss,T.
(forthcoming, 2008). Engaging Digital Writing in the
Classroom. Norwood, MA: Christopher-Gordon.
Sheehy, C., & Swiss, T. (forthcoming, 2009).
Highway 61 Revisited: Bob Dylan's Road from Minnesota to the
World. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press. [MPR
broadcast of "Highway 61 Revisited" (March 26, 2007)]
Morris, A., &
Swiss, T. (Eds.). (2006).
New Media Poetics: Contexts, Technotexts, and Theories.
Cambridge: The MIT Press.
Swiss, T. (Ed.). (2001).
Unspun: Key concepts for understanding the World Wide Web. New York: New York University Press.
Swiss, T., & Herman, A. (Eds.). (2000).
The World Wide Web and contemporary cultural theory: Magic,
metaphor, power.
Oxford: Routledge.
Swiss, T., and Horner, B. (Eds.), (2000). Key
Terms in Popular Music and Culture. Boston, MA:
Blackwell.
Swiss, T. (1997). Rough
Cut: Poems. Urbana, IL: University of Illinois
Press.
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