Vincent Sherry Visiting Scholar Lecture -- Bare Death: The Failing Sacrifice of the Great War

Department of English Visiting Scholar Lecture

Vincent Sherry,
Howard Nemerov Professor in the Humanities
Washington University

Bare Death:
The Failing Sacrifice of the Great War

Tuesday, October 16
10 AM
Arts 210

Vincent Sherry teaches and writes about literary modernism in Britain and Ireland.  He concentrates on the art of modernism in relation to the First World War, to European politics in the interwar period, and to the literary and artistic legacy of late 19th century Decadence.  

Most recently, he has served as Editor of the Cambridge History of Modernism (Cambridge UP, 2017), a work of nearly 1000 pages, which, in 45 chapters, provides a comprehensive history of the major cultural productions of modernism, featuring not only its literature but also its music, visual arts and architecture, philosophy, and science.

His current research involves work on A Literary History of the European War of 1914-1918, which puts the literatures of the various national protagonists in the war (Britain, Germany and Austria, France, and Italy) into conversation with each other.

His most recent book, Modernism and the Reinvention of Decadence (Cambridge UP, 2015), follows the legacy of nineteenth-century French Décadance in English modernism. 

For a more complete biography of Vincent Sherry (excerpted here), please see his Washington University profile page.