UMass Boston

Modernist literature; modern poetry; Virginia Woolf; empathy and literature; modernism and elegy; literature of World War I

PhD, University of Michigan
BA, Swarthmore College

• "Modernist Empathy: Geography, Elegy, and the Uncanny." New York: Cambridge University Press, 2019.
• “Mapping, Perception, WWI: Military Strategy, Poetic Voice, and Fictional Perspectives.” Teaching Representations of World War One. Eds. Debra Rae Cohen and Douglas Higbee. MLA Press, 2017. 185-192.
• “Psychology, Psychoanalysis, and New Subjectivities.” Cambridge Companion to The Waste Land. Ed. Gabrielle McIntire. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2015. 162-177.
• “Empathy, Trauma, and the Space of War in Parade’s End.” War and the Mind: Ford Madox Ford, Parade's End, and Psychology. Eds. Rob Hawkes and Ashley Chantler. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2014. 50-62.
• “Poetry of the Great War.” A Companion to Modernist Poetry. Eds. David Chinitz and Gail McDonald. Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell, 2014. 222-33.
• “Dissolving Landscapes: Auden’s Protean Nostalgia.” Modernism and Nostalgia: Bodies, Locations, Aesthetics. Ed. Tammy Clewell. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2013. 166-180.
• “The Self-Elegy: Narcissistic Nostalgia or Proleptic Postmortem?” A Companion to Poetic Genre. Ed. Erik Martiny. Blackwell Companions to Literature and Culture. Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell (December 2011). 93-103.
• “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.

Eve Sorum: Curriculum Vitae

Eve Sorum received a prestigious Fulbright Award to teach in West Africa for 2013-14.

Review of Thomas Hardy’s Elegiac Prose and Poetry: Codes of Bereavement, by Galia Benziman. Victorian Studies 62. 1 (Spring 2020): 167-68. 

Review of Publishers, Readers, and the Great War: Literature and Memory since 1918, by Vincent Trott. Journal of British Studies 58.1 (Spring 2019): 251-253. 

“Parade’s End.” Consequence Magazine 4.1 (Spring 2012): 233-238.