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Cassandra Falke is a Professor of English Literature at UiT. She specializes in English romanticism and literary theory. Here books include Intersections in Christianity and Critical Theory  (ed. 2010),  Literature by the Working Class: English Autobiography, 1820-1848  (2013), The Phenomenology of Love and Reading  (2016; paperback 2018), Phenomenology of the Broken Body  ( co-ed 2019),  Wild Romanticism  (co-ed, 2021), and Interpreting Violence: Narrative, Ethics and Hermeneutics (co-ed 2023). In articles and book chapters, she has also written about Romantic-period literature, class, education, contemporary phenomenology and the portrayal of violence in literature.   

She is the recipient of a Fulbright professorship, two NEH awards, and a Distinguished Professor designation for teaching. She led the NOH-HS funded network, Interpreting Violence: Narrative, Ethics and Hermeneutics and is a partner in the project Instrumental Narratives: The Limits of Storytelling and New Story-Critical Narrative Theory. She also led the project ReadRespond: Literature / History / Human Rights , an international, online reading initiative encouraging discussions of rights-engaged literature. Falke is the President of the American Studies Association of Norway and leads UiT's Interdisciplinary Phenomenology research group. Her current book projects are entitled  Global Human Rights Fiction  (Routledge 2023),  Wise Passiveness: Being Receptive in the Romantic Period  (Bloomsbury, 2024), and  The Reader as Witness: Seeing Political Violence through Contemporary Novels . A list of recent publications may be viewed in Cristin and on the attached CV. During the 2024-2025 academic year, she will be a fellow of the Society for the Humanities at Cornell University.