Matthew Anderson, Ph.D.
Professor
Location
Founder, Humanities and Medicine program (HuMed)
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Credentials
Education
Expertise
- Poetry
Research
Current research
After many years of work in the field of Law and the Humanities, I have returned to my passion for poetry. I am currently researching the work of Jack Gilbert, Linda Gregg, and Laura Ulewicz
Selected publications
"A Book of Questions," Law and Humanities (Vol. 13.1, 2019)
"Nomos and Form: Reading A Jury of Her Peers and the 'Problem of Judgment' in Procedure," Studies in Law, Politics, and Society (Spring 2012)
Options for Teaching Law and Literature. Modern Language Association (2011). Co-edited with Austin Sarat and Cathrine Frank.
Introduction to Law and the Humanities. Cambridge UP (2010). Co-edited with Austin Sarat and Cathrine Frank.
The Space of a Poem: Baudelaire in the Place du Carrousel, English Language Notes (Vol. 48.2, 2010)
Toward A Critique of Guilt: Perspectives from Law and the Humanities, Special issue of Studies in Law, Politics, and Society,(Vol. 36, 2005). Guest editor.
Other scholarly activity
Stuart A. Rose archive (Emory University) short-term research fellow, May 2023
Aspen Institue, Wye Faculty Seminar, July 2016
W.T. Bandy Center Fellow (Vanderbilt University), Spring 2015
Funded grants
National Endowment for the Humanities, Summer Institute for College and University Faculty, “The Rule of Law: Legal Studies and the Liberal Arts” June-July 2009. Co-director with Cathrine Frank.
Research interests
Jack Gilbert
Linda Gregg
Laura Ulewicz
French and U.S. poetry (mid-nineteenth century to the present)
Charles Baudelaire
Law and the Humanities