Biography
Favorite books
- Midnight’s Children, Salman Rushdie
- Gilead, Marilynne Robinson
- If on a winter’s night a traveler, Italo Calvino
- Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close, Jonathan Safran Foer
- Cloud Atlas, David Mitchell
- To the Lighthouse, Virginia Woolf
- The Real Life of Sebastian Knight, Vladimir Nabokov
- A Fine Balance, Rohinton Mistry
Hobbies
- running and sometimes walking
- taking in stories (from books & film & TV & other people's voices)
- eating good food with dear ones
- going on medium-sized adventures with the Zwart menfolk (husband, two sons)
- wandering art museums & botanical gardens & unfamiliar cities
Additional information
- Lucid Dreaming, Books & Culture
- Twelve Knives for the New Year, Christian Century
Education
Professor Zwart received her B.A. from Calvin College in 2000, with majors in English and art history. She then went on to study at Boston University, where she received her M.A. and Ph.D. in English, writing her dissertation on rewritings of the Scarlet Letter.
Academic Interests
- postmodern and contemporary fiction written in English
- postcolonial literature—especially Southeast Asian literature
- modern and contemporary poetry
- writing poetry
Awards
- From Every Nation Award (2023)
- Sabbatical (interim and spring term 2016).
- Calvin Research Fellowship (
2 course releases, interim and spring term 2009)
Publications
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