Nan Goodman
Professor of Distinction

Office: OB1 S278

Nan Goodman is the author of three books on early American law and literature:ÌýÌýThe Puritan Cosmopolis:Ìý The Law of Nations and the Early American ImaginationÌý(Oxford UP, 2018);ÌýBanished: Common Law and the Rhetoric of Social Exclusion in Early New EnglandÌý(University of Pennsylvania Press, 2012); andÌýShifting the Blame: Literature, Law, and the Theory of Accidents in Nineteenth-Century AmericaÌý(Princeton UP 1998, Routledge, 2000). She is the co-editor of two volumes,ÌýThe Routledge Research Companion to Law and Humanities in Nineteenth-Century America, (Routledge, 2017)Ìýand The Turn Around Religion in America: Literature, Culture (Ashgate, 2011) and the editor of two special issues ofÌýEnglish Language Notes:ÌýComparative and Critical Mysticisms,ÌýSpecial Issue, English Language Notes,Ìý56.1 (2018) andÌýJuris-dictionsÌý48.2 (2010).Ìý She has written many essays on early American literature and issues related to law and the humanities.Ìý She teaches classes on early American literature, law and literature, and Jewish Studies.Ìý She is theÌýEditor in ChiefÌýofÌýEnglish Language Notes.Ìý

Areas of Specialty

  • American Literature
  • Cultural Studies
  • Eighteenth Century Literature