Thom Swiss Professor M.F.A., University of Iowa 125J Peik Hall 612-625-7509 swiss@umn.edu Office hours: Fall 2008:by appointment Preferred method of contact: e-mail I am always delighted to meet with students who believe I might be useful to their course of study.

My writing and teaching focus on interdisciplinary subjects, including popular 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 popular culture takes place and how the emergence of new media is changing the face of teaching and learning.

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 the University of Iowa in an interdisciplinary graduate program and as professor of journalism and mass communication at the University of Minnesota.

Selected publications:

Sheehy, C., & Swiss, T. (forthcoming, 2009). Highway 61 Revisited: Bob Dylan's Road from Minnesota to the World. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press.

Anson, C., Beach, R., Breuch, L., & Swiss,T. (forthcoming, 2008). Engaging Digital Writing in the Classroom. Norwood, MA: Christopher-Gordon.

Swiss, T., & Morris, A. (Eds.). (2006). New Media Poetics: Contexts, Technotexts, and Theories. Cambridge: The MIT Press.

Swiss, T. (Ed.). (2001). Unspun: The Web, Language, Society. New York: New York University Press.

Swiss, T., & Herman, A. (Eds.). (2000). The World Wide Web and Cultural Theory: Magic, Metaphor, Power. Oxford: Routledge.

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January 2008