Martha Woodmansee
Encyclopedia
Martha Woodmansee is a professor at Case Western Reserve University
in Cleveland, Ohio
. She has been a member of the English department since 1986 and joined the faculty at the School of Law
in 2003. In addition, she was the Director of the Society for Critical Exchange, a national organization devoted to collaborative interdisciplinary work in theory. A 1999 Guggenheim fellow and 2004 Fulbright fellow, her teaching and research interests are 18th- and 19th-century literature, critical theory, cultural studies including book piracy and the emergence of international copyright during the nineteenth century.
Woodmansee attended Northwestern University
(B.A.) and Stanford University
(M.A., Ph.D).
Case Western Reserve University
Case Western Reserve University is a private research university located in Cleveland, Ohio, USA...
in Cleveland, Ohio
Ohio
Ohio is a Midwestern state in the United States. The 34th largest state by area in the U.S.,it is the 7th‑most populous with over 11.5 million residents, containing several major American cities and seven metropolitan areas with populations of 500,000 or more.The state's capital is Columbus...
. She has been a member of the English department since 1986 and joined the faculty at the School of Law
Case Western Reserve University School of Law
Case Western Reserve University Franklin Thomas Backus School of Law is the law school at Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland, Ohio. It opened in 1892, making it one of the oldest law schools in the country. It was one of the first schools accredited by the American Bar Association and was...
in 2003. In addition, she was the Director of the Society for Critical Exchange, a national organization devoted to collaborative interdisciplinary work in theory. A 1999 Guggenheim fellow and 2004 Fulbright fellow, her teaching and research interests are 18th- and 19th-century literature, critical theory, cultural studies including book piracy and the emergence of international copyright during the nineteenth century.
Woodmansee attended Northwestern University
Northwestern University
Northwestern University is a private research university in Evanston and Chicago, Illinois, USA. Northwestern has eleven undergraduate, graduate, and professional schools offering 124 undergraduate degrees and 145 graduate and professional degrees....
(B.A.) and Stanford University
Stanford University
The Leland Stanford Junior University, commonly referred to as Stanford University or Stanford, is a private research university on an campus located near Palo Alto, California. It is situated in the northwestern Santa Clara Valley on the San Francisco Peninsula, approximately northwest of San...
(M.A., Ph.D).
Author
- The Author, Art, and the Market: Rereading the History of Aesthetics (Columbia UP 1994).
Editor
- The New Economic Criticism: Studies at the Interface of Literature and Economics (Routledge 1999).
- The Construction of Authorship: Textual Appropriation in Law and Literature (Duke UP 1994) (co-edited with Peter Jaszi).
- Erkennen und Deuten. Essays zur Literatur und Literaturtheorie (Erich Schmidt 1983) .
Translator
- Introduction to Literary Hermeneutics, by Peter Szondi (Cambridge UP 1995) (translator).