Eve Sorum

Bio

Eve Sorum is Professor of English and Associate Dean in the College of Liberal Arts at the University of Massachusetts Boston. She has published Modernist Empathy: Geography, Elegy, and the Uncanny (Cambridge University Press, 2019), as well as articles and chapters on topics including pauses, nostalgia, self-elegy, modernist mapping, the spaces of World War I, and masochism. She is currently working on a project exploring feminist pedagogies of “unmastery” in modernist women’s writing.

Contributions

Shells, Bones, and Silence: Modernism’s Elegiac Attention

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I was talking last summer with a friend about the mass losses occurring across the globe, and she asked me whether I found it odd that there were no memorials to those lost to the Covid pandemic, nor forms of yearly remembrance in the United States. I was embarrassed to realize that I had not thought about that lack—I was so focused on the return to normalcy from Covid and the other cataclysmic events in the world that my amnesia mirrored that of the culture around me. There are no monuments to...

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