In a Q&A about his new film project on Ernest Hemingway, filmmaker Ken Burns cites UVA literary scholar Steven Cushman, professor of English. “The thing I go back to often is that this is a guy who’s emerging out of a modernist tradition in which everybody is complicated. Joyce and Faulkner, they’re really super complicated. And, as the literary scholar Steve Cushman says in the film, Hemingway dared to impersonate simplicity.”