Martha Woodmansee

Martha Woodmansee (* 1944 ) is an American literary scholar and legal historian. She has taught at Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland , Ohio since 1986 and is a director of the Society for Critical Exchange . Woodmansee has specialized primarily in the history of European literature , books and law in the 18th and 19th centuries, and here on the interaction between literature and law, especially copyright .

Life

Woodmansee received her Masters and PhD degrees from Stanford University in German and English with a specialization in literary theory . She has been a member of the English faculty at Case Western Reserve University since 1986 and has also been a member of the law faculty since 2002. She has also taught at Harvard , Columbia University, and the University of Pittsburgh .

Since 1990 she has chaired the Society for Critical Exchange , a US-wide society for interdisciplinary studies on theory . Here she endeavored to advance studies at the interface between aesthetics, economics and law.

Publications

• The Author, Art, and the Market: Rereading the History of Aesthetics , Columbia UP, 1994
• The Construction of Authorship: Textual Appropriation in Law and Literature , Ed. Together with Peter Jaszi , Duke UP, 1994
• New Economic Criticism: Studies at the Intersection of Literature and Economics , Routledge 1999
• On the Author Effect: Revovering Collectivity in: 10 Cardozo Arts & Entertainment, LJ 279, 1992
• Recognize and interpret. Essays on literature and literary theory , Erich Schmidt, 1983
• Translator of: Peter Szondi: Literary Hermeneutics , Cambridge UP, 1995

Web links

• Profile at Case Western Reserve University
• Literature by and about Martha Woodmansee in the bibliographic database WorldCat