Ravit Reichman
Associate Professor of English
Office: 70 Brown St., Rm. 310
Phone: (401) 863-3562
On Leave AY '09-'10
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Degrees
Ph.D. Yale University 2003
M.A. M.Phil. Oxford University 1996
B.A. Georgetown University 1994
Research Interests
20th-Century British Novel; Law and Literature; Modernism;
Literary Theory; Psychoanalysis; Literature and the Emotions; Narrative and
Memory, Literary responses to war.
Professional Accomplishments
Ravit Reichman is the author of The Affective Life of Law: Legal Modernism & the Literary Imagination (Stanford University Press, 2009), which examines responses to trauma and war in fictional and legal texts. She is currently working on a book about the modern relation to property in literature and law. Her articles on Holocaust testimony, law & culture, colonial law, and capital punishment, as well as on writers like Albert Camus, Virginia Woolf, and James Joyce, have been published in such journals as South Atlantic Quarterly, Law, Culture, & the Humanities, ARIEL, American Imago, NOVEL, and Studies in Law, Politics, and Society.
