When alumnus Christopher Schaberg thought about potential contributors to the book and essay series he was creating, he went back to colleagues at UC Davis. So far his UC English doctoral classmates, John Garrison and Kara Thompson, along with English professor Scott Shershow, have written essays and books for the Object Lessons series (Bloomsbury). The series examines the life of ordinary objects we often take for granted. Writers observe the “object” from multiple angles—history, literature, philosophy, science. Anything is fair game and there are no set formats.

Scott Cutler Shershow's newest book is The Love of Ruins: Letters on Lovecraft, co-authored with Scott Michaelsen.  He is also the author of Bread from Bloomsbury's Object Lessons series (2016), Deconstructing Dignity: A Critique of the Right-to-Die Debate (2014), and of other essays and books on a variety of other topics in critical theory, popular culture, and early-modern theater. 

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