Sherman was born on 26 January 1966, in
Saint Paul, Minnesota. He received his B.A. from
Columbia University in 1988, a M.Phil. and Ph.D. from the
University of Cambridge. Sherman taught English at the
University of Maryland, College Park from 1993 to 2004, before moving to the
University of York, where he taught English literature from 2005 to 2013, and founded its
Centre for Renaissance and Early Modern Studies, of which he also served as director until 2011. He joined
Victoria and Albert Museum as head of research in 2014, and was named director of research and collections in 2016. In 2017, he was named director of the
Warburg Institute at the
School of Advanced Study,
University of London. == References ==