Job description

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),  Wild Romanticism  (co-ed, 2021), Interpreting Violence: Narrative, Ethics and Hermeneutics (co-ed 2023), and The Routledge Handbook of Eco-Phenomenology (co-ed, 2026). 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. She also led the project ReadRespond: Literature / History / Human Rights , an international, online reading initiative encouraging discussions of rights-engaged literature. Falke was  President of the American Studies Association of Norway from 2018-2022 and leads UiT's Interdisciplinary Phenomenology research group. Her current book projects are entitled Global Human Rights Fiction (Routledge 2026), and Wise Passiveness: Phenomenologies of Receptivity in British Romantic Poetry (Bloomsbury, 2027). A list of recent publications may be viewed in Cristin and on the attached CV. During the 2024-2025 academic year, she was a fellow of the Society for the Humanities at Cornell University.