• “Exotic Rituals and Family Values in Exotica”
• “Itsy Bitsy Spiders and Other Pieces of the Real in Dead Calm”
• "The Absent One in Apartment Zero”
• Dead Fathers:  The Logic of Transference in Modern Narrative (U of Michigan P, 1994).

• Introduction to Literary Study
• Contemporary Approaches to Literary Study
• Seminar in Literary Theory
• The Self and Ethics in the Modern World

Nina Schwartz has published on modernism and contemporary literature and film and is currently completing a book on recent representations of trauma.  She teaches courses in theory, contemporary literature, and various interdisciplinary studies.