Name Martha Woodmansee | ||
Education Stanford University (1977) Books The Author, Art, and the Market: Rereading the History of Aesthetics Awards Guggenheim Fellowship for Humanities, US & Canada | ||
Martha Woodmansee (born 1944) is an American professor at Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland, Ohio. She has been a member of the English department since 1986 and joined the faculty at the School of Law in 2003. In addition, she was the Director of the Society for Critical Exchange, a national organization devoted to collaborative interdisciplinary work in theory. In 2008 she has founded the International Society for the History and Theory of Intellectual Property. A 1999 Guggenheim fellow and 2004 Fulbright fellow, her teaching and research interests are 18th- and 19th-century literature, critical theory, cultural studies including book piracy and the emergence of international copyright during the nineteenth century.
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Woodmansee attended Northwestern University (B.A.) and Stanford University (M.A., Ph.D).