Cassandra Falke is a professor of English literature at The Arctic University of Norway, where she leads the English section and the interdisciplinary phenomenology research group. She has taught in higher education for over twenty years. She is the author of two monographs and around forty articles and book chapters on topics ranging from liberal arts education to romantic poetry to human rights in literature. She has edited or co-edited four essay collections and two journal special issues. Much of her work concerns the ethics of representation in literature, especially in relation to working-class people and victims of state-sponsored violence. She investigates ways literature can challenge clear divisions of victim, perpetrator and witness, and champions the "common" reader's ability to read in complex, ethically meaningful ways. Her monograph, Global Human Rights Fiction is forthcoming. She is a former Fulbrighter and president of the American Studies Association of Norway.