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Associate Professor of EnglishResearch 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
“‘Money Answers All Things’: Rethinking Economic and Cultural Exchange in the Captivity Narrative of Mary Rowlandson,” American Literary History 22.1, forthcoming 2010
“‘For Their and Our Security’: Jurisdictional Identity and the Performance of the ‘Poor Indian’ on Deer Island,” Native Acts: Indian Performance in Early North America, ed. Joshua Bellin and Laura Mielke. University of Nebraska Press, forthcoming 2010
“The Early American Text: Law or Literature?” Teaching Literature and Law, MLA’s Options For Teaching series, ed. Austin Sarat, Cathrine Frank, Matthew Anderson. MLA Publications, forthcoming 2010
“Banishment, Jurisdiction, and Identity in Seventeenth-Century New England:
The Case of
Roger Williams,” Early American Studies 7.1 (Spring 2009): 109-139
“American Indian Languages and the Law of Property in Colonial America,” Law, Culture, and the Humanities 5.1 (2009): 77-99
“Law and Popular Culture 1790-1920,” Cambridge History of American Law, ed. Michael Grossberg, Christopher Tomlins. Cambridge University Press, 2008, 387- 416
“The Law of the Literary Archive: The Case of the Early American Period,” English Language Notes, Special Issue: The Specter of the Archive 45.1 (Spring/Summer 2007): 33-39
“Mercantilism and Cultural Difference in Cabeza de Vaca’s Relacion,” Early American Literature 40.2 (Summer 2005): 229-250
“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
Invited Guest Faculty, NEH Summer Institute: “The Rule of Law: Legal Studies and the Liberal Arts,” July 15-16, 2009
Leap Associate Professor Grant, Spring 2008
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”: The Law and Language of Banishment in Seventeenth-Century New England (book)
Co-ed. with Michael Kramer, The Turn Back to Religion: Essays in American Literature (essay collection)