 Associate Professor of English
Office: Denison 226 Telephone: 303-492-3940 E-mail: Nan.Goodman@colorado.edu |
Research and teaching interests
Early American literature; 19th-century American literature; law and literature
Education
Ph.D., Harvard University, 1992
J.D., Stanford Law School, 1985
M.A., University of California at Berkeley, 1981
B.A., Princeton University, 1979
Publications
Book
Shifting the Blame: Literature, Law, and the Theory of Accidents in Nineteenth-Century America. Princeton Univ. Press, 1998; rpt. Routledge, 2000
Essays
“American Indian Languages and the Law of Property in Colonial America.” Law, Culture, and the Humanities, forthcoming
“The Early American Text: Law or Literature?” Teaching Literature and Law ( MLA Options For Teaching series). Ed. Austin Sarat, Cathrine Frank, and Matthew Anderson. MLA Publications, forthcoming
“Law and Popular Culture 1790-1920.” Cambridge History of American Law, forthcoming
“Mercantilism and Cultural Difference in Cabeza de Vaca's Relacion.” Early American Literature 40 (2005): 229-50
"Contract Realism." American Literary History 11, 3 (Fall 1999)
"A Clear Showing: The Problem of Fault in James Fenimore Cooper's The Pioneers." Arizona Quarterly 49, 2 (Summer 1993): 1-22
Selected honors and awards
CU Boulder Faculty Fellowship, 2007-2008
National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship for University Teachers, 1994-95
Current projects
“Free Liberty to Stay Away From Us”: Banishment in Seventeenth-Century New England (book)
Co-ed. with Michael Kramer, The Turn Back to Religion: Essays in American Literature (essay collection)
“’Money Answers All Things’: The Ethos of Mercantilism in Mary Rowlandson’s Captivity Narrative” (article)