This no frills website is for all those who are interested in the life and times of Jesse Swan, Professor of English at the University of Northern Iowa, Chair of the University Faculty, and reluctant megalomaniac.

My teaching and scholarship interests involve many areas, variously conceptualized. In most of my thinking, I'm concerned with historiographical, ontological, and politico-cultural exigencies effecting knowledge, especially knowledge borne of literacy. Expressed in a more modernist way, one could say that I'm interested in

For a list of selected publications and some of work in progress, click here: list of publications and work in progress.

For a list of selected conference and symposia presentations, click here: list of conference and symposia presentations.

For a list of courses I have taught, click here: list of courses.

I encourage any student to study with me who is interested in any aspect of Renaissance/early modern English literature and culture, bibliography and textual studies, constructionist or constructivist critiques of gender and sexuality, the politics of the twenty-first century academy, cross-cultural English literatures, postmodern literature and criticism, and/or most any ironic literature.

In the table below, you will find links to several sites somehow able to claim some relation to me, even if the relation be my interest in the site. Graphics are underrepresented in my websites as I believe that a thousand words are worth a thousand words.

Following the table, you'll find a mailbox icon upon which you may click to receive protocols for sending me some sort of praise (or even, alas, blame, I suppose, if you cannot resist the impulse).