Diana L. Swanson

Associate Professor of Women's Studies and English

Educational Background

Professional Interests

Selected Awards

Northern Illinois University Eychaner Award for leadership on behalf of the lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender community and contributions to the advancement of LGBT scholarship. 2005.

Selected Publications

• Guest Editor. “Eco-Woolf” Special Issue of Virginia Woolf Miscellany 81 (2012) http://home.southernct.edu/~neverowv1/VWM81Spring2012.pdf
• “Woolf’s Copernican Shift: Nonhuman Nature in Virginia Woolf’s Short Fiction.” Woolf Studies Annual 18 (2012): 108-125.
• "The Real World: Virginia Woolf and Ecofeminism." In Virginia Woolf and the Natural World: Selected Papers from the Twentieth Annual International Conference on Virginia Woolf. Ed. Kristin Czarnecki. Clemson: Clemson University Digital Press, 2011. 24-34. (Invited keynote speech) http://www.clemson.edu/cedp/cudp/pubs/vwcon/20.html
• “British Imperialism in Africa: Leonard Woolf, M.W. Swanson, and the Role of Civil Bureaucracy.” Virginia Woolf Miscellany 72 (2007): 47-49. Special issue on Leonard Woolf, ed. AnnMarie Bantzinger. http://www.home.southernct.edu/%7eneverowv1/VWM72Fall2007.pdf
• “Lesbian Approaches.” In Anna Snaith, ed., Palgrave Advances in Virginia Woolf Studies. Houndmills, UK & New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2007. 184-208.
• "Queering the Conflicts: What LGBT Students Can Teach Us in the Classroom and Online." Computers and Composition 21 (2004): 295-313. Special issue: Sexualities, Technologies, and Writing. Eds. Jonathan Alexander and William Banks. Co-authored with Brad Peters. http://commons.lib.niu.edu/handle/10843/13310
• "Safe Space or Danger Zone? Incest and the Paradox of Writing in Woolf's Life." In Creating Safe Space: Violence and Women's Writing. Eds. Tomoko Kuribayashi and Julie Tharp. Albany: SUNY Press, 1997. 79-99.
• "An Antigone Complex? The Political Psychology of The Years and Three Guineas." Woolf Studies Annual 3 (1997): 28-44.
• "Playing in Jeanette Winterson's 'The Poetics of Sex': Rescuing Words for Lesbians." LIT: Literature, Interpretation, Theory 7(1997): 325-37.

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