Henry Schwarz is an Associate Professor of English and Director of the Program on Justice and Peace. He is an expert in literary theory and cultural studies; Marxism, theory of history; South Asian literature; film.

Schwarz earned his Ph.D. from Duke University, an M.A. from Rutgers University and B.A. from McGill University.

Publications Schwarz has written include: Contributions to Bengal Studies: An International and Interdisciplinary Approach (1998); Blackwell Companion to Postcolonial Studies (1999); Writing Cultural History in Colonial and Postcolonial India (1997); Reading the Shape of the World: Toward an International Cultural Studies (1996); and various articles on colonialism, Third World literature, Peace Studies,and literary and cultural theory in general