Serializing and Deserializing Object using XmlSerializer

public static string SerializeObject(T value)
{
    if (value == null)
    {
        return null;
    }
    XmlSerializer serializer = new XmlSerializer(typeof(T));
    XmlWriterSettings settings = new XmlWriterSettings();
    settings.Encoding = new UnicodeEncoding(false, false);
    settings.Indent = false;
    settings.OmitXmlDeclaration = false;
    using (StringWriter textWriter = new StringWriter())
    {
        using (XmlWriter xmlWriter = XmlWriter.Create(textWriter, settings))
        {
            serializer.Serialize(xmlWriter, value);
        }
        return textWriter.ToString();
    }
}

public static T DeserializeObject(string xml)
{
    if (string.IsNullOrEmpty(xml))
    {
        return default(T);
    }
    XmlSerializer serializer = new XmlSerializer(typeof(T));
    XmlReaderSettings settings = new XmlReaderSettings();
    using (StringReader textReader = new StringReader(xml))
    {
        using (XmlReader xmlReader = XmlReader.Create(textReader, settings))
        {
            return (T)serializer.Deserialize(xmlReader);
        }
    }
}