BRATTLEBORO — Barbara Will, Professor of English at Dartmouth College, will examine how the First World War altered the American literary landscape in a talk at Brooks Memorial Library, 224 Main St. on Dec. 6 at 7 p.m.
Her talk, “World War I and American Writers,” is part of the Vermont Humanities Council's First Wednesdays lecture series and is free and open to the public.
Will will focus on the effect of the war on American writers, particularly John Dos Passos, T. S. Eliot, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Ernest Hemingway, and Gertrude Stein, and explore how the war changed American literature and made it “modern.”
Will's academic interests include American literature, modernism and postmodernism, and contemporary literary and feminist theory. She teaches core courses in those subjects as well as advanced seminars on topics ranging from “American Writers between the World Wars” to Virginia Woolf and Gertrude Stein.
She is the author of Unlikely Collaboration: Gertrude Stein, Bernard Faÿ, and the Vichy Dilemma and Gertrude Stein, Modernism, and the Problem of “Genius.” She holds a Ph.D. from Duke University.
The program is free, accessible to people with disabilities, and open to the public.