Books
Swift, C. Ritual, Spectacle, and Theatre in Late Medieval Seville: Performing Empire. Yorkshire: ARC Humanities Press/Amsterdam University Press, 2023. (Nominated for the Future Perfect New Voices Award)
Articles
Swift, C., “The City Performs: An Architectural History of NYC Theater.” ArcGIS Story Map. https://arcg.is/1KHqCP (November 25, 2021).
Swift, C., “Sites of Performance and Circulation.” In A Cultural History of Tragedy in the Middle Ages, ed. Rebecca Bushnell, 27-48. London: Bloomsbury, 2020.
Swift, C. and T. Chin, “Mapping Urban Performance Culture: A Common Ground for Architecture and Theater”. Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Virtual Place-Based Learning, eds. Lansiquot and MacDonald, pp. 83-98. New York: Palgrave, 2019.
Swift, C., “Medieval Studies: Iberian Theater and Performance.” Oxford Bibliographies, ed. Paul E. Szarmach. Oxford University Press (2012; revised and updated 2015 and 2017). https://www.oxfordbibliographies.com/view/document/obo-9780195396584/obo-9780195396584-0008.xml
Swift, C., “Robot Saints.” Preternature: Critical and Historical Studies on the Preternatural 4, no. 1 (March 2015): 52-77.
Swift, C., “Technology and Wonder in Thirteenth-Century Iberia and Beyond.” In Performing Objects and Theatrical Things, edited by Marlis Schweitzer and Joanne Zerdy, 21-35. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2014.
Swift, C., “A Penitent Prepares: Affect, Contrition, and Tears.” In Crying in the Middle Ages: Tears of History, edited by Elina Gertsman, 79-101. London: Routledge, 2011.
Swift, C., “‘The Spanish Match’: Ceremony, Diplomacy, and the Reading Public” (with Rachel Burk). Ritual and Ceremony: Late-Medieval Europe to Early America, Primary Sourcebooks for the College Classroom. Washington, D.C.: Folger Shakespeare Library, 2011.
Swift, C., “The Sacred Performative: Holy Wednesday and Colonial Ritual/Theatre.” The Journal of Religion and Theatre 5, no. 2 (Fall 2006): 144-53.
Podcasts
Swift, C., “Robot Saints: What can medieval automata teach us about the age of AI?” Atlas Obscura Podcast (Oct. 17, 2023). https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/podcast-robot-saints
Swift, C., “City Tech Stories, Episode 4: Open Educational Resources.” Interview with Elvis Bakaitis (Dec. 2, 2019. https://soundcloud.com/citytechlibrary/citytech-stories-podcast-episode-4-interview-with-christopher-swift
Book Reviews
Swift, C., “Play Time: Gender, Anti-Semitism, and Temporality in Medieval Biblical Drama,” by Daisy Black. Theatre Journal 76 (2024) (forthcoming).
Swift, C., “Playing God”, by Henry Bial. TDR: The Drama Review 61, No. 2 (2017): 182-84.
Swift, C., “Radical Theatricality: Jongleuresque Performance on the Early Spanish Stage”, by Bruce Burningham. Theatre Journal 60, no. 4 (Dec. 2009): 663-64.
Directing
“Scapino” (adapted and directed). Voorhees Theater, New York City College of Technology, CUNY. (December, 2014). Photographs
“Alfonso X’s Cantigas de Santa Maria” (director and editor). Early Music Michigan and Western Michigan University Collegium Musicum, St. Luke Episcopal Church, Kalamazoo, Mich., 15 May 2010. Video
Fellowships, Grants, Awards
Recipient: PSC-CUNY Research Award (Trad A) (2021)
Recipient: OER Fellowship, Ursula C. Schwerin Library, NYCCT, CUNY (2019)
Fellow: “A Cultural History of Digital Technology” National Endowment for the Humanities, NYCCT, CUNY (2017-18)
Fellow: Faculty Fellowship Publication Program. Office of the Dean for Recruitment and Diversity, City University of New York (Spring, 2015)
Fellow: “A Living Laboratory: Redesigning General Education for a 21st-Century College of Technology.” Title V Grant Initiative, NYCCT, CUNY (2014-2015)
Recipient: PSC-CUNY Research Award (Trad A) (2015)
Fellow: “Making Connections: Engaging the Humanities at a College of Technology.” National Endowment for the Humanities, NYCCT, CUNY (2014-2015)
Recipient: Professional Development Advisory Council Travel Awards. NYCCT, CUNY (December 2012, May 2013, August 2013, November 2013, May 2014, July 2014, November 2014, May 2015)
Recipient: William Stewart Travel Awards For National and International Conferences ($500) (2012)
Fellow: “Ritual and Ceremony from Late-Medieval Europe to Early America,” A National Endowment for the Humanities Institute. Washington, D.C. Folger Shakespeare Library (2010)
