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Cassandra Falke is a Professor of English Literature at UiT. She specializes in English romanticism and literary theory. Her 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), and Wild Romanticism  (co-ed, 2021). In articles and book chapters, he 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 Phenomenologyhttps://www.cambriapress.com/pub.cfm?bid=548 research group. Her current book projects are entitled Global Human Rights Fiction (Routledge 2023), Wise Passiveness: Being Receptive in the Romantic Period, and The Reader as Witness: Seeing Political Violence through Contemporary Novels. A list of recent publications may be viewed below.