Law and Humanities
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Matthew Hart
Chair, Department of English and Comparative Literature; Professor of English and Comparative Literature
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Saidiya V Hartman
University Professor
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Full-time Faculty
Eleanor B Johnson
Director of Graduate Admissions; Professor of English and Comparative Literature
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Julie Stone Peters
H. Gordon Garbedian Professor of English and Comparative Literature; Director of Academic Careers Advising; Co-Chair, PhD in Theater and Performance
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Joseph R. Slaughter
Associate Professor of English and Comparative Literature; Executive Director of the Institute for the Study of Human Rights
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Affiliated Graduate Students
Laurie Bashford
PhD Student
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Asian American and Asian Diaspora, Global Anglophone, World Literature, Postcolonial and the Global South, Asia/South Asia, Contemporary Literature and Culture, Comparative Literature and Translation,, Theatre, Drama, Performance Studies, Creative Writing, Creative-Critical, Poetry and Poetics, Cultural Studies, Science and Environmental Studies, Law and Humanities
Pranav Menon
PhD Student
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Studies legal and literary imaginations of space and place, American empire, Ethnicity, Race, and Indigenous Studies, American and the Americas, Global Anglophone Literature, Postcolonial and Global South, 20th and 21st Century American Literature, Contemporary Literature and Culture, Poetry and Poetics, Cultural Studies, Ecocriticism, Science and Environmental Studies, Public Humanities, Law and Humanities, MarxismRelated News
August 22, 2022
Julie Stone Peters Interviewed by Columbia News About the Release of New Book
In Law as Performance, Professor Julie Stone Peters traces how theatrics and spectatorship contributed to a tradition of legal thought and practice.