4:00 PM - 5:00 PM Eastern
UNITED STATES
This webinar is open to the general public.
Bernard Schweizer is Professor Emeritus of English at Long Island University, Brooklyn. Having grown up in Switzerland, Schweizer traveled the world as a young adult, then began his undergraduate studies at the University of Lausanne, Switzerland, before moving to the United States in 1990 and graduating from the University of Minnesota with a B.A. in English. Afterwards, he earned a doctorate in English literature from Duke University, and in 2002 he joined the faculty of Long Island University as an assistant professor of English, receiving tenure in 2007. Schweizer has an enduring fascination for literature that challenges boundaries of accepted social, cultural, and religious norms, and as a result of this interest, he has published critical studies on boundary-pushing travel writers, on the iconoclastic British writer Rebecca West, on misotheists (people who believe in God but hate him), and on irreverent humor in literature and film. Most recently, he has co-edited a pioneering book titled Muslims and Humor: Essays on Comedy, Joking, and Mirth in Contemporary Islamic Contexts. After retiring from his professorship in 2019, his literary passions drove him to found Heresy Press, a haven for ambitious, outspoken fiction that rigorously prioritizes creative freedom and literary quality above conformity to ideological credos.
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