Jane Zwart, Assistant Professor, English
616-526-8606
jcz3@calvin.edu
Office: LN 104 (directions)
Weekly Schedule
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Educational Background
Professor Zwart received her B.A. from Calvin College in 2000, with majors in English and art history. She then went on to study at Boston University, where she received her M.A. and Ph.D. in English, and writing her dissertation on rewritings of the Scarlet Letter.
Academic Interests
Narratives that focus on particular letters of the alphabet, books with odd and inventive formats (e.g. ones that include pictures or are written as a dictionary or instruction manual), postcolonial literature—especially Indian literature, writing poetry
Recent Activities
Professor Zwart has recently published several poems, including "The Perishable" in Rattle, "Stachys Byzantina" and "The Burley Park Flea Market" in Faultline, and "Women's Bathroom, College of Fine Arts," forthcoming in Boston Review. She has written several book reviews for Books and Culture, including one on Steven Millhauser's Dangerous Laughter, one on Toni Morrison's A Mercy, and one (in the print edition) on Aravind Adiga's The White Tiger. Her review of Mavis Gallant's The Cost of Living appears in the September 2009 issue of Books and Culture, and her poem "Our Neighbor Reads" appears in the fall 2009 issue of Margie.
Hobbies
Running 20 miles each week, crossword puzzles, reading for pleasure, watching TV on DVD, hearing good bands and lounging about with Andrew (my husband) and our cats.
Favorite Books
Midnight's Children, Salman Rushdie, Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close, Jonathan Safran Foer, To the Lighthouse, Virginia Woolf
Additional Information
Lucid Dreaming, Books & Culture
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