Vincent Sherry

Vincent Sherry is the Professor of English and holds the Howard Nemerov Professor in the Humanities title at Washington University in St. Louis. He is affiliated with the Department of English and specializes in literary modernism, particularly its intersections with First World War history, European interwar politics, and Decadence legacies. His research emphasizes historically informed analyses of modernist literature's cultural and political contexts.

Education: PhD (University of Toronto), MA (University of Toronto), BA (University of Notre Dame).

Research focuses include:

• Modernist literature's relationship to war and political crises
• Legacy of 19th-century Decadence in British/Irish writing
• Gender and scientific thought in modernist works

Recent projects include editing the Cambridge History of Modernism (2017) and authoring Modernism and the Reinvention of Decadence (2015). He is currently working on a transnational literary history of the 1914–18 European war under contract with Princeton UP.

Teaching highlights include courses on James Joyce's Ulysses and Virginia Woolf's feminist narratives, integrating historical and theoretical approaches to modernist texts.