In this interview, Paul Schwaber discusses topics including: growing up in Brooklyn; studying at Wesleyan (B.A.); studying at Berkeley and Columbia (M.A., PhD); working at Wesleyan as a professor at the College of Letters; work in psychoanalysis; co-education and diversification fo the Wesleyan campus; influential colleagues Herb Arnold, Bill Fershein, Barry Keiffer; thoughts on Vic Butterfield; frustrations with department funding over the years; writing of book about James Joyce's Ulysses; marriage and children; evolution of Wesleyan curriculum over the years, particularly regarding expansions in the Arts