Faculty

Matthew Anderson
and Cathrine O. Frank
Matthew Anderson, Ph.D.,  is an associate professor and Cathrine O. Frank is an assistant professor in UNE's Department of English and Language Studies. They have taught numerous courses on law and literature as well as broad-based interdisciplinary courses on themes of law and justice (e.g.,“Freedom & Authority,” “Women and the Law in Victorian England”).

They are co-editing (with Austin Sarat of Amherst College) a book, Options for Teaching Literature and Law, forthcoming with the Modern Language Association, as well as the Introduction to Law and the Humanities (under contract with Cambridge UP).

In June 2003, Anderson organized a Law & the Humanities conference, on the subject of “Guilt,” at the University of New England. In 2005, he edited a special issue of Studies in Law, Politics, and Society, “Towards a Critique of Guilt: Perspectives from Law and the Humanities.” He is currently working on a series of essays that combines an interest in law, trauma, and literature, particularly the way in which issues of trauma and justice—and of the displacement of the sacred by the secular—are registered in a wide range of texts.

Frank teaches and publishes in the areas of Victorian studies and law and literature. She has presented conference papers on the subject of testamentary law, realism, and legal and literary modes for creating individual and cultural identity. She has published in Law and Literature and has a new article in a special issue on law and literature in College Literature. Her manuscript on the cultural place of the last will and testament and its function in the realist and modern novel is currently under review.

Other Faculty
In addition to Frank and Anderson, presenters at the summer institute will include: Austin Sarat, Ph.D., J.D., William Nelson Cromwell Professor of Jurisprudence and Political Science, Amherst College; Chaya Halberstam, Ph.D., assistant professor of religious studies, Indiana University; Jill Frank, Ph.D., LL.B., associate professor of political science, University of South Carolina; Paul W. Kahn, Ph. D., J.D., Robert W. Winner Professor of Law and the Humanities, and director of the Orville H. Schell, Jr. Center for International Human Rights at Yale Law School; Robert A. Ferguson, Ph.D., J.D., George Edward Woodberry Professor in Law, Literature and Criticism, Columbia University; Caroline Winterer, Ph.D., associate professor of history, Stanford University; Deak Nabers, Ph.D., assistant professor of English, Brown University; Lief Carter, Ph.D., professor of political science, Colorado College; Carol Greenhouse, Ph.D., professor of anthropology, Princeton University;  Nan Goodman, Ph.D., J.D.,  associate professor of English, University of Colorado; Julie Stone Peters, Ph.D., J.D. professor of English, Columbia University.