Dr. Amanda Swain joined IES Abroad in 2017, taking over as the Interim Center Director at the Nice Center in 2024. She has a strong background in curricular and faculty development and higher education management, in addition to over 10 years of undergraduate teaching experience. She was a 2016 Mellon Humanities Dissertation Fellow and the 2023 Romeyne Robert and Uguccione Sorbello Fellow.
Dr. Swain holds a PhD in twentieth-century U.S. literature and culture from the Department of English at the University of Chicago. Her scholarship explores twentieth-century U.S. intellectual and political cultures, with an emphasis on their transatlantic dimensions. Her research has appeared in premier international journals, including American Quarterly, Modern Intellectual History, and Journal of Modern Italian Studies.