Talk: “The Dark Tide: Digital Preservation, Interpretative Loss”
Panel: “The Material Object in Digital Culture”

Jessica Weare is a Ph.D. candidate at Stanford University. Her dissertation, Competing Narratives: British Memoirs and Fictions of the First World War, examines four figures of British modernism — Siegfried Sassoon, Richard Aldington, Robert Graves, and Vera Brittain — who lived through the First World War and subsequently wrote both a memoir and a novel about their experiences. Weare uses those narratives to destabilize the canon of war literature and delineate the roles of generic boundaries, authenticity, and fictionality in modernism. Her work is forthcoming in next year’s new edition of the Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics and in a proposed edited volume entitled Make It True: Modernism, Truthfulness, and Trust. She is delighted and somewhat unnerved to return to the site of her undergraduate education for this conference