Nell Wasserstrom is a visiting Senior Lecturer in the Department of English at the University of Lausanne. She was a pensionnaire étrangère at the École Normale Supérieure (Rue d’Ulm) during the academic year 2018-2019 and received her Ph.D. from Boston College in 2022. Her articles and translation work have appeared in ASAP/Review, differences: A Journal of Feminist Cultural Studies, Modern Philology, and Critical Inquiry. She is completing a book manuscript on the conjunction of late modernism and late style in the final works of Sigmund Freud, Walter Benjamin, and Virginia Woolf.
Nell Wasserstrom
Contributions
Hope Mirrlees’s Paris: A Poem @ 100
In her editor’s note introducing the first 2022 print issue of Modernism/modernity, Anne Fernald reflects on anniversaries and new beginnings in light of this weightiest of modernist centenaries: “1922 was a special year and its advent is special to us, in part because it is an anniversary not of violence, but of artistic achievement. If we value art as a mode of resistance to violence and a way to make meaning out of loss, then anniversaries that are determined by art are important.” An anniversary determined not by violence, but by art: what better way to open a cluster marking the centenary of a modernist long poem dedicated to the “Peace Carnival” of Paris in 1919? Hope Mirrlees’s Paris: A Poem, what Julia Briggs has irresistibly dubbed “modernism’s lost masterpiece,”