Bernard Schweizer

Bernard Schweizer is a literary scholar with twelve books (monographs, essay collections, and editions) to his credit, including the pioneering study Hating God: The Untold Story of Misotheism (Oxford University Press, 2011) and British feminist writer Rebecca West's posthumous work Survivors in Mexico (Yale University Press, 2003), which Schweizer put together from the author's archives. Schweizer, who grew up in Switzerland, earned a Ph.D. in British Literature from Duke University and then...See more

Bernard Schweizer is a literary scholar with twelve books (monographs, essay collections, and editions) to his credit, including the pioneering study Hating God: The Untold Story of Misotheism (Oxford University Press, 2011) and British feminist writer Rebecca West's posthumous work Survivors in Mexico (Yale University Press, 2003), which Schweizer put together from the author's archives. Schweizer, who grew up in Switzerland, earned a Ph.D. in British Literature from Duke University and then joined the English faculty at Long Island University, Brooklyn, in 2002. After retiring as an emeritus professor in 2019, his literary passions drove him to found Heresy Press as a haven for ambitious, outspoken fiction from writers of all backgrounds. See less