Jun
03
2022
OSI
We are happy to announce Ravit Reichman as a member of the OSI 2022 faculty! Ravit is Associate Professor of English at Brown University, where she works at the intersection of literature, law, and psychoanalysis. Ravit will convene a workshop with Bryan Wagner on questions of Property, Law and Literature.
Her first book, The Affective Life of Law: Legal Modernism and the Literary Imagination (Stanford, 2009), examined law and literature in the context of the world wars. She is currently completing a study of property’s cultural and psychological life, Possessive Cases: The Propertied Imagination in Modern Times, which offers a genealogy of property’s expansive role in our psychic life, beginning with more conventional notions of property and ending in ideas of property restitution as a vehicle for justice. Her articles on affect and law, colonial jurisprudence, capital punishment, and counterfactual life, as well as on writers like Albert Camus, Virginia Woolf, and James Joyce, have been published in a range of journals and volumes. She has been a Fulbright Scholar, a Fellow at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, and a Howard Foundation Fellow.
May
30
2022
OSI
We are happy to announce Bryan Wagner as a member of the OSI 2022 faculty! Bryan is Professor in the English Department and American Studies Program at the University of California, Berkeley. His research focuses on African American expression in the context of slavery and its aftermath, and he has specific interests in legal history, vernacular culture, urban studies, and digital humanities. Bryan will convene a workshop with Ravit Reichman on questions of Property, Law and Literature.
He is Principal Investigator for two multidisciplinary research projects in the digital humanities: Louisiana Slave Conspiracies (lsc.berkeley.edu), a documentary archive of trial manuscripts related to slave conspiracies organized at the Pointe Coupée Post in the Spanish territory of Louisiana in 1791 and 1795; and Tremé 1908, which tells the story of a year in the everyday life of an extraordinary neighhorhood that was a crucible for civil rights activism, cultural fusion, and musical innovation.
He is currently writing a book, The People’s Court: Law and Performance from Slavery to the Civil Rights Movement, that reconstructs a period-bound demotic tradition in folklore, music, popular theater, and vaudeville comedy based in the process and procedures of the minor judiciary.
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We are happy to announce Ravit Reichman as a member of the OSI 2022 faculty! Ravit is Associate Professor of English at Brown University, where she works at the intersection of literature, law, and psychoanalysis. Ravit will convene a workshop with Bryan Wagner on questions of Property, Law and Literature.
