Faculty & Staff
Eve Sorum, PhD
- Associate Professor of English and Graduate Program Director, College of Liberal Arts
- Telephone: 617-287-6753
- Email: eve.sorum@umb.edu
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100 Morrissey Blvd. Office Location: Wheatley Hall,06,00002
Areas of Expertise
Modernist literature; modern poetry; Virginia Woolf; empathy and literature; modernism and elegy; literature of World War I
Degrees
PhD, University of Michigan
Professional Publications & Contributions
- “Dissolving Landscapes: Auden’s Protean Nostalgia.” Modernism and Nostalgia. Ed. Tammy Clewell. New York: Palgrave (forthcoming 2013).
- “Poetry of the Great War.” A Companion to Modernist Poetry. Eds. David Chinitz and Gail McDonald. Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell (forthcoming 2012).
- “The Self-Elegy: Narcissistic Nostalgia or Proleptic Postmortem?” A Companion to Poetic Genre. Ed. Erik Martiny. Blackwell Companions to Literature and Culture. Wiley-Blackwell (forthcoming April 2011).
- “Hardy’s Geography of Narrative Empathy,” Studies in the Novel 43.2 (Summer 2011): 179-199.
- “‘The Place on the Map’: Geography and Meter in Hardy’s Elegies.” Modernism/Modernity 16.3 (September 2009): 543-64.
- “Mourning and Moving On: Life after War in Ford Madox Ford’s The Last Post.” Modernism and Mourning. Ed. Patricia Rae. Lewisberg: Bucknell University Press, 2007. 154-167.
- “Taking Note: Text and Context in Virginia Woolf’s ‘Mr. Bennett and Mrs. Brown.’” Woolf Studies Annual 13 (March 2007): 137-158.
- “Masochistic Modernisms: A Reading of Eliot and Woolf.” The Journal of Modern Literature 28.3 (Spring 2005): 25-43.
Additional Information
Book Reviews
“Parade’s End.” Consequence Magazine 4.1 (Spring 2012): 233-238.
Courses Taught
Graduate Courses
Engl 697 Modernism and Visual Culture
Engl 648 Modernism in Literature
Engl 645 Modern Poetry
Engl 628 Virginia Woolf and E. M. Forster
Engl 696 Independent Study: Modernism, Mourning, and the Great War
Undergraduate Courses
Engl 466 Advanced Special Topics: Transatlantic Modernisms
Engl 463 Advanced Studies in Prose: Modernism and World War I
Engl 462 Advanced Studies in Poetry: The Poetry Wars
Engl 386 Virginia Woolf
Engl 362 Modern British Poetry
Engl 183G Literature and Society: Writing Modern War
Current Projects
Chapter on "Psychology, Psychoanalysis, and the New Subjectivities of the Early-Twentieth Century in relation to The Waste Land” for a Cambridge Companion to The Waste Land, ed. Gabrielle McIntyre, (Cambridge University Press).
Chapter on “Empathy, Trauma, and the Space of War in Parade’s End” for a collection on War and the Mind: Ford Madox Ford, Parade's End, and Psychology (proposal submitted to Palgrave).
Book project: Modernist Empathy: Terrains of Loss
