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Ravit Reichman

Robert and Nancy Carney Assistant Professor of English

Office: 70 Brown St., Rm. 310
Phone: (401) 863-3562

Courses '08-'09
  Sem I:
 ENGL 0800D - S01: The Dead and the Living -- CRN 15443
 ENGL 1760V - S01: Lying, Cheating, and Stealing -- CRN 15464

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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
Reichman is currently working on a book entitled The Affective Life of Law: Postwar Justice & the Literary Imagination, which examines responses to trauma and war in fictional and legal texts. She has published articles on Holocaust testimony, law & culture, legal character, Virginia Woolf & torts, colonial law, Albert Camus, and the Nuremberg trial.