Martha Woodmansee

Martha Woodmansee (born 1944) 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).

Writings

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).

External links

• Case Western Reserve University Department of English faculty profile
• Case Western Reserve University School of Law faculty profile

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