He grew up in California, and before moving to Cambridge, MA lived in Chicago, New York, and Sevilla, Spain. He received his Bachelors of Arts from the University of California, Berkeley, and his Masters and Doctorate degrees from New York University. His areas of expertise include Modernism, Contemporary British Literature, narrative theory, continental philosophy, elegy, trauma, and witnessing. He has published several essays on literature and philosophy, and is particularly interested in literary approaches to ethics. Some of the Brandeis courses taught by Professor Sherman include Magical Realism and Modern Myth, Contemporary British Literature, Literature and Medicine, and Modernism, Atheism, God. He is also working on a new podcast called "Literature Lab," available online. (davidsherman@brandeis.edu)