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Matthew Anderson

Matthew Anderson, Ph.D.

Professor

Location

Marcil Hall 107
Biddeford Campus

Founder, Humanities and Medicine program (HuMed)

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Credentials

Education

Ph.D. (Comparative Literature)
Yale University
1999

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