Law and Literature?

[Grunty DaGnome]

Is anyone else interested in this sub-field/interdisciplinary approach? Better yet, is anyone already in a graduate program that offers this emphasis? If so, I'd love to hear about it.

[yank in the M20]

Ravit Reichman, I think her name is, at Brown. I don't go there, just know from researching the school and speaking to one of her advisees.

[Grunty DaGnome]

Yes, I'm aware of her. What did her advisee say about working with her? Is she very involved as an advisor? And does she concentrate on Law and Lit or is it more of a side interest [if you know].

[yank in the M20]

He said she was great--no more details, sorry. He mentioned the law work as a serious interest, but very tied up with the war lit/Modernism stuff, if I remember correctly.

[perrykm2]

I've seen a lot of this tooling around department faculty pages. Doesn't Duke have a joint PhD/JD?

[generic31290]

I've seen a lot of this tooling around department faculty pages. Doesn't Duke have a joint PhD/JD?

UCI just started one: http://uci.edu/features/2011/11/feature_interdisciplinary_111107.php

[Grunty DaGnome]

UCI has unofficially had one for a while. Brook Thomas is very well knows for his work on Henry James and contract law. There are several islands of Law and Literature floating around out there in the sea of English Departments and American Studies faculties, but I wonder if anyone on these boards takes an interest, if it's mainstream in any of your departments or if this kind of work will always take a back seat to Foucault and Kristeva?