Imagining Human Rights

List of Contributors

Elizabeth S. Anker is Associate Professor in the English Department at Cornell University and Associate Member of the Faculty of Cornell Law School. Her first book is Fictions of Dignity: Embodying Human Rights in World Literature (2012), and her recent publications include essays in New Literary History, American Literary History, Novel: A Forum on Fiction, and the University of Toronto Quarterly. She is currently working on two book projects. The first, “Our Constitutional Me taphors: Law, Culture, and the Management of Crisis,” looks to literature, architecture, and film to study popular metaphors for constitutions, examining how they resolve challenges to democracy. Second, she is writing a book on “Human Rights and Critical ...