Elizabeth Swanson
- Professor
- Joyce H'22 and Andy Mandell '61 Endowed Professorship
Academic Division: Arts & Humanities
Academic Degrees
- Ph D, Miami University of Ohio
- MA, Northeastern University
- BA, Northeastern University
Academic Interest / Expertise
Literature and Human Rights; African American Literature, Culture, and History; Slavery Studies; Diversity, Equity, and BelongingAwards & Honors
- 2020 — Top 50 US Business Professors, Poets & Quants
- 2019 — Professor of the Year, Babson College
- 2018 — Mandell Family Foundation Term Chair, Babson College
- 2012 — Faculty Scholarship Award, Dean of Faculty
- 2012 — Changemaker Award, Lewis Institute
- 2012 — Martin Luther King Jr. Legacy Day Award, Council on Diversity and Inclusion
- 2008 — Professor of the Year, Babson College
- 2007 — Professor of the Year, Babson College
- 2007 — Women Who Make a Difference Award, Babson College
- 2006 — Dean's Award for Excellence in Teaching, Babson College
- 2004 — Innovators Among Us Award, Babson College
Courses
Degree Courses 2024
- HUM 4607 TRAUMA CULTURE TRANSFORMATION
Degree Courses 2023
- LIT 4682 INTERDISC APPROACH TO HUMAN RIGHTS
- HUM 4612 ROME:ORIGIN DEM IMPERIALISM&HUMAN RIGHTS
- LTA 2446 LITERATURE OF BLACK ATLANTIC
Publications
Journal Articles
- Carey, J.C., Beitelspacher, L.S., Tosti-Kharas, J., Swanson, E. (2021). A resource-efficient modular course design for co-teaching integrated sustainability in higher education: Developing the next generation of entrepreneurial leaders. Entrepreneurship Education and Pedagogy. Vol: 4, Issue: 2, Page: 169-193.
- Swanson, E., Moore, A.S. (2021). Indefinite Detention: Chronotopes of Unfreedom in Mohamedou Ould Slahi’s Guantanamo Diary. ariel: A Review of International English Literature. Vol: 51, Issue: 1, Page: 33-60. Ariel: A Review of International English Literature. link
- Swanson, E. (2019). Rape, Representation, and the Endurance of Hegemonic Masculinity. Vol: 25, Issue: 13, Page: 1613-1630. Sage Journals. link
- Deets, S.G., Greenberg, D., Erzurumlu, S.S., Hunt, J.M., Manwaring, M.M., Rodgers, V.L., Swanson, E. (2017). Signing to Living PRME: Learning from a Journey Towards Responsible Management Education. The International Journal of Management Education. Vol: 15, Issue: 2, Page: 205-218.
- Swanson, E. (2017). Freedom, Commerce, Bodies, Harm: The Case Against Backpage.com . Cogitatio.
- Moore, A.S., Swanson, E. (2015). Victims, Perpetrators, and the Limits of Human Rights Discourse in Post-Palermo Fiction About Sex Trafficking. The International Journal of Human Rights. Vol: 19, Issue: 1, Page: 16-31. Routledge. link
- Moore, A.S., Swanson, E. (2014). ‘Let Us Begin with a Smaller Gesture’: An Ethos of Human Rights and the Possibilities of Form in Chris Abani’s Song for Night and Becoming Abigail. ariel: A Review of International English Literature. Vol: 45, Issue: 4, Page: 59-87. The Johns Hopkins University Press.
- Swanson, E., Moore, A.S., Mullins, G. (2013). Introduction: On Texts and Performances. College Literature. Vol: 40, Issue: 3, Page: 9-14. West Chester University. link
- Swanson, E., Moore, A.S. (2013). Meditations on a Fractured Terrain: Human Rights and Literature. College Literature. Vol: 40, Issue: 3, Page: 15-37. West Chester University. link
- Swanson, E., , A.S. (2011). Old Questions in New Boxes: Mia Kirschner's I Live Here and the Problem of Transnational Witnessing. Gender and Humanitarian Narrative. Humanity.
- Swanson, E. (2010). Plotting, Finally, the Human: Unsettling the Manichean Allegory in Caryl Phillips. South Atlantic Review. Vol: 75, Issue: 2, Page: 135-154. South Atlantic Modern Language Association. link
- Swanson, E., Greenberg, D. (2004). What's a Cultural Studies Curriculum Doing at a College Like This?. Liberal Education: Journal of the American Association of Colleges and Universities.
- Swanson, E. (2003). Living the Legacy: Pain, Desire, and Narrative Time in Gayl Jones's Corregidora. Callaloo: A Journal of African Diaspora Arts and Letters. Vol: 26, Issue: 2, Page: 446-472. Johns Hopkins University Press.
Books
- Swanson, E. (2023). he Guantanamo Artwork and Testimony of Moath al-Alwi: Deaf Walls Speak: The Guantanamo Artwork and Testimony of Moath al-Alwi: Deaf Walls Speak. Palgrave MacMillan. link
- Swanson, E., Moore, A.S. (2018). Witnessing Torture: Perspectives from Torture Survivors and Human Rights Workers: Witnessing Torture: Perspectives from Torture Survivors and Human Rights Workers. Palgrave. link
- Swanson, E., Stewart, J.B. (2018). Human Bondage and Abolition: New Histories of Past and Present Slaveries: Human Bondage and Abolition: New Histories of Past and Present Slaveries. Cambridge University Press. link
- Swanson, E., Moore, A.S. (2015). Teaching Human Rights in Literary and Cultural Studies. Modern Language Association Press. link
- Swanson, E., Moore, A.S. (2012). Epilogue: Theoretical Perspectives on Human Rights and Literature. Page: 261-264. Routledge.
- Swanson, E. (2012). Introduction: Human Rights and Literature: The Development of an Interdiscipline: Theoretical Perspectives on Human Rights and Literature. Page: 3-18. Routledge.
- Swanson, E., Moore, A.S. (2012). Theoretical Perspectives on Human Rights and Literature. Page: 302. Routledge.
- Swanson, E. (2007). Beyond Terror: Gender, Narrative, Human Rights. Rutgers University Press.
Cases and Teaching Notes
- Bhardwaj, G., Swanson, E. (2014). Made By Survivors: Business Solution for a Social Problem. Vol: BAB271C, Page: 22. Babson College.
- Bhardwaj, G., Swanson, E. (2014). Made By Survivors: Business Solution for a Social Problem - Teaching Note. Vol: BAB271TN, Page: 25. Babson College.
- Harris, B.N., Swanson, E. (2007). What Price Progress: The Sardar Sarovar Dam Project: Geneen Foundation Ethics Case Series. Babson College.
Book Chapters
- Swanson, E. (2019). Victims, Witnesses, and Perpetrators: The Subjects of Human Rights: Cambridge Companion to Human Rights and Literature . Page: 193-205. Cambridge University Press. link
- Swanson, E., Stewart, J.B. (2018). Defending Slavery, Denying Slavery: Human Bondage and Abolition: New Histories of Past and Present Slaveries. Cambridge University Press. link
- Swanson, E., Moore, A.S. (2018). Editors' Introduction: On the Social Contexts of Witnessing: Expanding the Frame of Life Writing About Torture: Witnessing Torture: Perspectives from Torture Survivors and Human Rights Workers. Palgrave. link
- Swanson, E. (2018). Prologue: Rhetorics of Torture in the Public Sphere: Witnessing Torture: Perspectives from Torture Survivors and Human Rights Workers. Palgrave. link
- Swanson, E., Stewart, J.B. (2018). Introduction: Getting Beyond Plantation Slavery": Human Bondage and Abolition: New Histories of Past and Present Slaveries. Cambridge University Press. link
- Swanson, E., Moore, A.S. (2015). Beyond the Post/Colonial and the West: Teaching Human Rights in Literary and Cultural Studies. Page: 53-67. Modern Language Association Press. link
- Swanson, E. (2015). Gendering Human Rights and Their Violation: A Reading of Chris Cleave's Little Bee: Routledge Companion to Literature and Human Rights . Page: 60-68. Routledge. link
- Swanson, E. (2014). Human Rights: Critical Terms for the Study of Gender. Page: 139-155. University of Chicago Press.
- Swanson, E. (2012). Intimations of What Was to Come: Edwidge Danticat's The Farming of Bones and the Indivisibility of Human Rights: Theoretical Perspectives on Human Rights and Literature. Page: 103-119. Routledge.
- Swanson, E. (2012). "Accorded a Place in the Design": Torture in Post-Apartheid Cinema: Screening Torture: Media Representations of State Terror and Political Domination. Page: 167-190. Columbia University Press.
- Dubey, M., Swanson, E. (2011). New frontiers, cross-currents and convergences: emerging cultural paradigms: The Cambridge History of African American Literature. Page: 566-620. Cambridge University Press.
- Swanson, E., Dubey, M. (2009). Cross-Currents and Convergencies: Emerging Paradigms: The Cambridge History of African American Literature. Cambridge University Press.
- Swanson, E. (2006). War Film during the War on Terror: Displacement and Indirection: Kulturausausch.
- Swanson, E. (2005). Who was Afraid of Patrice Lumumba? Terror and the Ethical Imagination : Lumumba: La Mort du Prophet. Rutgers University Press.
- Swanson, E. (2000). Splitting Difference: Global Identity Politics and the Representation of Torture in the Counter-Historical Dramatic Film. Page: 245-270. Routledge. link
- Swanson, E. (1997). The Way We Do the Things We Do: Enunciation and Effect in teh Multicultural Classroom. Page: 151-177. Routledge.
Book Reviews
- Swanson, E. (2023). Conjuring Creative Citizenship Beyond Rights: Lyndsey Stonebridge's Writing and Righting: Literature in the Age of Human Rights. Vol: 64, Issue: 2, Page: 103-109. Wayne State University Press .
- Swanson, E. (2016). Review: Mark Bracher, "Literature and Social Justice: Protest Novels, Cognitive Politics, & Schema Criticism": American Literary History . Vol: Series VII. Oxford University. link
- Swanson, E. (2012). Review: African Diasporas: Ancestors, Migrations, and Boundaries: Journal of the African Literature Association. Vol: 7, Issue: 1. African Literature Association.
- Swanson, E. (2012). Review of "African Diasporas: Ancestors, Migrations and Boundaries" by Robert Cancel and Winifred Woodhull: Journal of the African Literature Association. Vol: 7, Issue: 1. African Literature Association. link
Other
- Swanson, E. (2014). On Happy Endings: End Slavery Now. National Underground Railroad Freedom Center. link
Presentations
Additional Links
Professional Services
- Reviewer, Book Ohio State University Press (2016 - 2016)
Professional Memberships
- Modern Language Association (2000 - Present)
Department & College Wide Services
- Appointments Decision-Making Body (Fall 2021 - Spring 2023)
- Diversity Council (Fall 2015 - Fall 2016)