Martha Woodmansee

Martha Woodmansee (* 1944) is an American literary theorist and legal historian. She teaches since 1986 at Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland, Ohio, and is the director of the Society for Critical Exchange. Woodmansee focused primarily on European literature, book and legal history of the 18th and 19th centuries, and here on the interaction of literature and law, especially copyright law.

Life

Woodmansee received her master's and doctorate at Stanford University in German and English with a specialization in literary theory. Since 1986 she is a member of the Faculty of English at Case Western Reserve University, and since 2002 a member of the law faculty. She also taught at Harvard, Columbia University and the University of Pittsburgh.

Since 1990 she is sitting the Society for Critical Exchange ago, a U.S. company widespread for interdisciplinary research in theory. She struggled here, progress in studies at the intersection of aesthetics, economy and law.

Publications

• The Author, Art, and the Market: Rereading the History of Aesthetics Columbia UP, 1994
• On the Author Effect: Revovering Collectivity in: 10 Cardozo Arts & Entertainment LJ 279 (1992 ) http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/IPCoop/92wood.html
• Recognition and interpretation. Essays on literature and literary theory, Erich Schmidt, 1983.
• Translator by: Peter Szondi: Literary Hermeneutics, Cambridge UP, 1995.