Sal (Sarah) Nicolazzo
I am Assistant Professor of Literature at UC San Diego, where I specialize in law and literature in the eighteenth-century British Empire and Atlantic world.
My current book project, provisionally titled "Vagrant Figures: Law, Literature, and the Origins of the Police," argues that the legal and imaginative category of vagrancy profoundly shaped the emergent legal codification of police power. Across global circuits of empire and commerce, vagrancy figured protean capacity for future threat that called for equally flexible, discretionary police power to contain it. Through the mobile cultural category of the "suspicious person," I uncover interpretive logics whose legacies shape law and policing today.
Address: Oakland, CA
My current book project, provisionally titled "Vagrant Figures: Law, Literature, and the Origins of the Police," argues that the legal and imaginative category of vagrancy profoundly shaped the emergent legal codification of police power. Across global circuits of empire and commerce, vagrancy figured protean capacity for future threat that called for equally flexible, discretionary police power to contain it. Through the mobile cultural category of the "suspicious person," I uncover interpretive logics whose legacies shape law and policing today.
Address: Oakland, CA
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