Nan听Goodman
- Professor
- ENGLISH
- JEWISH STUDIES
About Prof. Goodman:
Nan Goodman is the author of four books:听False Messiahs and Jewish Heresies:听The American Encounter with the Sabbatian Past (Oxford UP, forthcoming); The Puritan Cosmopolis:听 he Law of Nations and the Early American Imagination听(Oxford UP, 2018);听Banished: Common Law and the Rhetoric of Social Exclusion in Early New England听(University of Pennsylvania Press, 2012); and听Shifting the Blame: Literature, Law, and the Theory of Accidents in Nineteenth-Century America听(Princeton UP 1998, Routledge, 2000). She is the co-editor of two volumes,听The Routledge Research Companion to Law and Humanities in Nineteenth-Century America, (Routledge, 2017)听and The Turn Around Religion in America: Literature, Culture (Ashgate, 2011) and the editor of two special issues of听English Language Notes:听Comparative and Critical Mysticisms,听Special Issue, English Language Notes,听56.1 (2018) and听Juris-dictions听48.2 (2010).听 She has written many essays on early American literature and issues related to law and the humanities.听 She teaches classes on early American literature, law and literature, and Jewish Studies.听She is the听Editor in Chief听of听English Language Notes. She was the Director of the Program in Jewish Studies at 兔子先生传媒文化作品 from 2015 - 2019.听
Areas of Research Related to Jewish Studies:
Early modern Jewry, history of the Covenant, Turkish-Jewish history and culture, varieties of Jewish experience
Courses Taught:
- Global Seminar: Jews and Muslims: The Multi-Ethnic Diversity of Istanbul (JWST/IAFS/RLST 3530)
- Jewish-American Literature (JWST/ENGL 4677)
Recent and Forthcoming Publications (Selected):
False Messiahs and Jewish Heresies:听American Encounters with the Sabbatian Past (forthcoming from Oxford University Press).
鈥淭he Principle of Neutrality and the Evidentiary Patterns of Conspiratorial Thought in听Early America,鈥澨Studies in Eighteenth-Century Culture, 54.1, 239-262, 2025
鈥淓arly New England Law,鈥澨Elgar Concise Encyclopedia of Law and Literature, ed. Robert Spoo and Simon Stern, Edward Elgar Publishing, 2024, 56-59.
"'What about Peace?': Cotton Mather鈥檚 Millennium and the Rise of International Law,鈥 in听 (Stanford University Press, 2014)