Most of what is on this page has something to do with my work as Professor of English and Rhetoric of Inquiry at the University of Iowa.

There are syllabi here as well as criticism and poems I have written, links to a few edited books, and so on.

You can reach me at the following address or through email:

English Department
University of Iowa
308 EPB
Iowa City IA 52242
 thomas-swiss@uiowa.edu


UNSPUN: KEY CONCEPTS FOR THE WEB AND CULTURE  
published by New York University Press in 2001  
 
ROUGH CUT  
A book of poems published by the University of Illinois in 1997  

MAGIC, METAPHOR AND POWER: THE WWW AND CULTURAL THEORY  
published by Routledge in 2000  

POPULAR MUSIC AND CULTURE: KEY TERMS  
published by Blackwell in 1999  

MAPPING THE BEAT: POPULAR MUSIC AND CONTEMPORARY THEORY  
A co-edited book published by Blackwell in 1997  

MEASURE  
A book of poems published by the University of Alabama  

COLLABORATIVE WEB-BASED WORK
New Media art, poems, and other projects

WEB RADIO, COMMUNITY, CAPITALISM
A collaborative hypertext essay
from the journal Enculturation

POETRY & POP
An essay-review from the journal Popular Music

MUSIC & NOISE: MARKETING HYPERTEXTS
An essay from the journal Postmodern Culture

REVIEWING THE REVIEWERS OF
LITERARY HYPETERTEXTS
An article from the journal Electronic Book Review

THE WEB, LANGUAGE, ENGLISH STUDIES
An article in Currents in E-Literacy

JEWEL CASE: POETS, POP STARS, THE PRESS
Chapter excerpt from forthcoming book

GRAB BAG
A Little Essay on the Making of a Poem

The Spin Doctor: John Skelton