Faculty & Staff Directory
Eve Sorum
Title: Department Chairman
Phone: 617.287.6700
Email: Eve.Sorum@umb.edu
Department: English
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
BA, Swarthmore College
Professional Publications & Contributions
- "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.
Curriculum Vitae
Eve Sorum received a prestigious Fulbright Award to teach in West Africa for 2013-14.
Book Reviews
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.
Courses Taught
Graduate
ENGL 697: Modernism and Visual Culture (Spring 2012)
ENGL 648: Modernism in Literature (Fall 2007, Spring 2011, Fall 2018)
ENGL 645: Modern Poetry (Fall 2009)
ENGL 644: Modern British Novel (Spring 2015)
ENGL 628: Comparative Studies of Two Writers: Woolf and Forster (Fall 2008)
ENGL 628: Comparative Studies of Two Writers: Virginia Woolf and T. S. Eliot (Spring 2017)
ENGL 606: Books, Manuscripts, Libraries: Lyric Presence/Lyric Presents: Theories, Practices, Artifacts, Archives (Spring 2016)
Undergraduate
ENGL 498: English Honors Colloquium (Fall 2018)
ENGL 466: Advanced Special Topics: Transatlantic Modernisms (capstone, Fall 2010)
ENGL 465: Advanced Special Topics: Modernism and Visual Culture (capstone, Fall 2017)
ENGL 463.1: Advanced Studies in Prose: Modernism and World War I (capstone, Spring 2010)
ENGL 462: Advanced Studies in Poetry Canon Making: The Poetry Wars, Modernism, and Modern Poetry (Fall 2012)
ENGL 395: A Comparative Reading of Two Authors: Virginia Woolf and Zadie Smith (Fall 2020)
ENGL 395: A Comparative Reading of Two Authors: Virginia Woolf and T. S. Eliot (Spring 2017)
ENGL 386: Virginia Woolf (Spring 2010) (and as ENGL 380 Special Topics in Fall 2006)
ENGL 362: Modern British Poetry (Spring 2007)
ENGL 200: Introduction to Literary Studies (Fall 2015, Fall 2016, Fall 2017, Fall 2020)
ENGL 183G: Literature and Society: Writing Modern War (freshman seminar: 2 sections Spring 2008, 1 section Spring 2009)
ENGL 120: What to Read: Life Changing Literature (lecture with invited participants, Fall 2014)
HONS 291: Radical Reading (Spring 2018)