Osnabrück Summer Institute on the Cultural Study of the Law

It is our pleasure to welcome Cassandra Falke back as a faculty member of the OSI2026!
Cassandra Falke is a Professor of English Literature at UiT – The Arctic University of Norway,
where she also leads the Interdisciplinary Phenomenology research group.
She has published two monographs, five edited collections,
and around 60 articles and book chapters, exploring phenomenology, class, representations of violence and wilderness. She moves between Romantic period poetry and contemporary global fiction. Her work has been supported by the Fulbright Foundation, the National Endowment of the Humanities, and Cornell University’s Society for the Humanities. She has two monographs forthcoming: Global Human Rights Fiction (Routledge 2026) and Wise Passiveness: Phenomenologies of Receptivity in British Romantic Poetry (Bloomsbury 2027).

It is our pleasure to welcome Ted Laros back as a faculty member of the OSI2026!

Ted Laros is an assistant professor affiliated with the Department of Culture, Diversity and Inclusion of the Open University of the Netherlands (OUNL). He teaches in the bachelor’s and master’s programs in Arts and Culture Studies of OUNL’s Faculty of Humanities. His research interests include world literature (as a theoretical concept), the sociology of literature/culture, and the relationship between literature/culture and law.

Among his publications in the area of law and literature/culture are: Jaco Barnard-Naudé, Sauleha Kamal, and Ted Laros, editors, World Literature and Human Rights, special issue of Journal of World Literature, vol. 11, no. 2, 2026 (forthcoming); Ted Laros, Literaire rechtspraak. De zuivering van het literaire veld in Nederland, 1945-1952 [Literary Justice: The Purge of the Literary Field in the Netherlands, 1945-1952], Amsterdam University Press, 2025 (simultaneously released as Open Access book); Brigitte Adriaensen, Andrew Bricker, Alberto Godioli, and Ted Laros, editors, Humor and the Law: Laughter as Critique/The Limits of Laughter, special issue of Law, Culture and the Humanities, vol. 21, no. 2, 2025; Brigitte Adriaensen, Andrew Bricker, Alberto Godioli, and Ted Laros, editors, Humor and the Law: The Difficulty of Judging Jests, special issue of Humor: International Journal of Humor Research, vol. 35, no. 3, 2022; and Ted Laros, Literature and the Law in South Africa, 1910-2010: The Long Walk to Artistic Freedom,Bloomsbury, 2017 (Open Access edition 2020).