Faculty Guide

Title

Assistant Professor of English

English
Health: Science, Society, and Policy

Expertise

Modernism, Contemporary British, Narrative Theory, Continental Philosophy, Elegy, Trauma and Witnessing

Awards and Honors

James T. Arthur Dissertation Fellowship for the Study of Time, New York University (2002)

Lind American Literature Fellowship, New York University (2001)

Molberger Fellowship, New York University (2001)

Courses Taught

COML	117a	Magical Realism and Modern Myth
ENG	11a	Introduction to Literary Method
ENG	17b	Poetry and Social Crisis: Twentieth-Century British Poetry
ENG	58a	Literature and Medicine
ENG	78a	Virginia Woolf
ENG	78b	Modernism, Atheism, God
ENG	88b	Contemporary British Literature
ENG	107b	Literary Witnessing and the Poetics of Memory
ENG	131a	Comedy: Literature, Film, and Theory
ENG	200a	Approaches to Literary and Cultural Studies
ENG	218a	Unfinished Conversations in Literature and Philosophy

Scholarship

Sherman, David R. "Derek Walcott's 'A Far Cry from Africa' and 'Midsummer'." The Facts on File Companion to British Poetry, 1900 to the Present. 2009.

Sherman, David R.. ""Is Narrative Fundamental?" Beckett's Levinasian Question in Malone Dies." Journal of Modern Literature 32. 4 (2009).

Sherman, David R. "Elegy under the Knife: Geoffrey Hill and the Ethics of Sacrifice." Twentieth-Century Literature 54.2. (2008).

Sherman, David R. "A Plot Unraveling into Ethics: Woolf, Levinas, and 'Time Passes.'." Woolf Studies Annual 13. (2007).

Sherman, David R. "Burial Plots, Inoperative Community, and Faulkner's As I lay Dying." Theory@Buffalo 11. (2007).

Sherman, David R. "Review: Memory in Literature: From Rousseau to Neuroscience, by Suzanne Nalbantian." Woolf Studies Annual vol. 12

Sherman, David R. and Fritz, Holly. "The Academic Job Crisis and the Small Schools Movement." MLA Profession (2001).