David Sherman

David Sherman is faculty in the English Department at Brandeis University and co-director of the Brandeis Educational Justice Initiative, a higher-ed in prison program. He is currently writing a book on literary responses to secularization, The Machine Stops: Modernism, Human Fungibility, and the Critique of Secular Hope. His previous book In a Strange Room: Modernism’s Corpses and Mortal Obligation, explores literary responses to the modernization of mortuary practices. He is co-founder, with Karen Elizabeth Bishop, of a public poetry initiative, The Elegy Project, that puts poems in public places for strangers.