Auteur: Barry J. Scherr

Barry J. Scherr was educated at Brooklyn College of the City University of New York and Brown University, and received his PhD from the State University of New York at Buffalo. He has taught at many major American colleges and universities, including SUNY-Buffalo, Rutgers University, and Montclair State University. Having published over a dozen articles on D. H. Lawrence, he is also the author of D. H. Lawrence »s Response to Plato and D. H. Lawrence Today, the latter having recently been praised as « exhilarating… hard-hitting… intricate… incisive… heartening… forceful… and detailed » (Forum For Modern Language Studies) as well as « striking and unorthodox… entertaining [and] compelling » (Year »s Work in English Studies). His most recent book, Love and Death in Lawrence and Foucault, is praised as « exhilarating and entertaining… Like Leavis, Scherr is at his best in close reading… » (Style, April 1, 2011).