NanÌýGoodman
- Professor
- ENGLISH
- JEWISH STUDIES
About Prof. Goodman:
Nan Goodman is the author of four books:ÌýJewish Messiahs Abroad:ÌýAmerican Encounters with the Sabbatian Past (Oxford UP, forthcoming); The Puritan Cosmopolis:Ìý he Law of Nations and the Early American ImaginationÌý(Oxford UP, 2018);ÌýBanished: Common Law and the Rhetoric of Social Exclusion in Early New EnglandÌý(University of Pennsylvania Press, 2012); andÌýShifting the Blame: Literature, Law, and the Theory of Accidents in Nineteenth-Century AmericaÌý(Princeton UP 1998, Routledge, 2000). She is the co-editor of two volumes,ÌýThe Routledge Research Companion to Law and Humanities in Nineteenth-Century America, (Routledge, 2017)Ìýand The Turn Around Religion in America: Literature, Culture (Ashgate, 2011) and the editor of two special issues ofÌýEnglish Language Notes:ÌýComparative and Critical Mysticisms,ÌýSpecial Issue, English Language Notes,Ìý56.1 (2018) andÌýJuris-dictionsÌý48.2 (2010).Ìý She has written many essays on early American literature and issues related to law and the humanities.Ìý She teaches classes on early American literature, law and literature, and Jewish Studies.ÌýShe is theÌýEditor in ChiefÌýofÌýEnglish Language Notes. She was the Director of the Program in Jewish Studies at Â鶹Ãâ·Ñ°æÏÂÔØBoulder from 2015 - 2019.Ìý
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):
Jewish Messiahs Abroad:ÌýAmerican Encounters with the Sabbatian Past (forthcoming from Oxford University Press).
“The Principle of Neutrality and the Evidentiary Patterns of Conspiratorial Thought inÌýEarly America,â€ÌýStudies in Eighteenth-Century Culture, 54.1, 239-262, 2025
“Early New England Law,â€ÌýElgar Concise Encyclopedia of Law and Literature, ed. Robert Spoo and Simon Stern, Edward Elgar Publishing, 2024, 56-59.
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