Myron Schwartzman
Professor

Weissman School of Arts & Sciences
Baruch College, CUNY

Phone: 646-312-3928
Room 7-266, Vertical Campus
E-mail: Myron_Schwartzman@baruch.cuny.edu

Myron Schwartzman is the author of two books, Romare Bearden: His Life and Art (1990) and, most recently, Romare Bearden: Celebrating the Victory (1998). He has also written a widely used booklet, published by the New York Times College and School Service on the use of the newspaper in writing workshop courses.

He has been published in The New York Times, Amsterdam News, SoHo News and The Westsider. He has written extensively on James Joyce for James Joyce Quarterly, Modern Fiction Studies, Bulletin of Research in the Humanities, and Journal of English and Germanic Philology. Schwartzman has written on the African-American artist Romare Bearden for ArtForum, Bulletin of Research in the Humanities, and Callaloo: Journal of Afro-American and African Arts and Letters. Baruch honored him in 1990 with the President's Award for Distinguished Scholarship.

He was instrumental in establishing Baruch's undergraduate programs in Journalism and Creative Writing and Business Journalism. As a teacher, he is particularly interested in journalism as literature and copy editing. A graduate of Columbia College, Professor Schwartzman earned his M. Phil. at Birkbeck College, The University of London, and a Ph.D. at S.U.N.Y. Stony Brook. He has served as Baruch College's Ombuds since 1995.