Cogut Institute for the Humanities

Ravit Reichman is Associate Professor of English. She works at the intersection of literature, law, and psychoanalysis. Her first book, The Affective Life of Law: Legal Modernism and the Literary Imagination (Stanford University Press, 2009) examines law and literature in the context of the world wars. At the Cogut Institute, she will be 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. She has been a Fulbright Scholar, a Fellow at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, and a Howard Foundation Fellow.