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.

