NanGoodman
- Professor
- ENGLISH
- JEWISH STUDIES
About Prof. Goodman:
NanGoodman is the author of three books on early American law and literature:The Puritan Cosmopolis:The Law of Nations and the Early American Imagination(Oxford UP, 2018);Banished: Common Law and the Rhetoric of Social Exclusion in Early New England(University of Pennsylvania Press, 2012); andShifting the Blame:Literature, Law, and the Theory of Accidents in Nineteenth-Century America(Princeton UP 1998, Routledge, 2000). She is the co-editor of two volumes,The Routledge Research Companion to Law and Humanities in Nineteenth-Century America, (Routledge, 2017)and The Turn Around Religion in America: Literature, Culture (Ashgate, 2011) and the editor of two special issues ofEnglish Language Notes:Comparative and Critical Mysticisms,Special Issue, English Language Notes,56.1 (2018) andJuris-dictions48.2 (2010).She has written many essays on early American literature and issues related to law and the humanities.She teaches classes on early American literature, law and literature, and Jewish Studies.She was the Director of the Program in Jewish Studies at from 2015 - 2019.
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):
“The Principle of Neutrality and the Evidentiary Patterns of Conspiratorial Thought inEarly America,”Studies in Eighteenth-Century Culture, 54.1, 239-262, 2025
“Early New England Law,”Elgar Concise Encyclopedia of Law and Literature, ed. Robert Spoo and Simon Stern, Edward Elgar Publishing, 2024, 56-59.
"'What about Peace?': Cotton Mather’s Millennium and the Rise of International Law,” in (Stanford University Press, 2014)