Professor Chernik comes to UNC School of Law from Duke University, where she held a postdoctoral fellowship and taught academic writing and law and literature in the Thompson Writing Program. Professor Chernik holds a Ph.D. in English. Her dissertation focused on the intersection of aesthetic form, social justice, and the ethics of empathy in British Romantic-era literature. While attending the University of Maine School of Law, Professor Chernik served as an articles editor on the Maine Law Review and held summer clerkships at the Maine Supreme Judicial Court and the United States Attorney’s Office in Portland, Maine. After earning her J.D., Professor Chernik worked as a legal writer and editor on employment law treatises, including Larson's Workers' Compensation and Employment Discrimination. A native New Yorker, Professor Chernik enjoys living in the beautiful Triangle area.