Brian Goodman

Biography
Brian Goodman is an assistant professor in the Department of English. His research and teaching ranges across several fields, including U.S. literature and culture, human rights, dissident literatures, and Jewish studies. His current research explores how the intertwined histories of postwar literary culture, free expression, and human rights have been shaped through transnational cultural exchange. His book project (under contract at Harvard University Press) maps the circulation of literature and culture between the United States and the Eastern bloc, particularly Czechoslovakia, during the Cold War. A chapter from this project, entitled "Philip Roth's Other Europe," has been published in American Literary History, and his recent writing on free expression issues has appeared in Public Books and the Los Angeles Review of Books. Before coming to ASU, Goodman was a postdoctoral instructor at the Pozen Family Center for Human Rights at the University of Chicago. Goodman is also an associate managing editor, focusing on Special Forums, at the digital, open-access Journal of Transnational American Studies.
Education
- Ph.D. American Studies, Harvard University 2016
- M.St. English, University of Oxford, U.K. 2007
- B.A. American Studies, Stanford University 2006
Publications
Recent Publications:
"On Arendt, Kafka, and the Uses of Misreading," Symposium on Lyndsey Stonebridge's Placeless People, for Humanity Journal, 3 September 2019, http://humanityjournal.org/symposium-placeless-people/
"The Ends of Human Rights in US Literary Studies," American Literary History, Volume 31, Issue 2, Summer 2019, Pages 356–368, https://doi.org/10.1093/alh/ajz015
"Philip Roth's Other Europe: Counter-Realism and the Late Cold War," American Literary History, Volume 27, Issue 4, Winter 2015, Pages 717–740, https://doi.org/10.1093/alh/ajv046
Courses
Spring 2022 | |
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Course Number | Course Title |
ENG 242 | Literature of US Post 1860 |
ENG 333 | American Ethnic Literature |
Fall 2021 | |
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Course Number | Course Title |
ENG 242 | Literature of US Post 1860 |
ENG 444 | Interdisciplinary Lit&Culture |
Fall 2020 | |
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Course Number | Course Title |
ENG 200 | Critical Reading & Writing/Lit |
ENG 242 | Literature of US Post 1860 |
Spring 2020 | |
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Course Number | Course Title |
ENG 242 | Literature of US Post 1860 |
ENG 333 | American Ethnic Literature |
Fall 2019 | |
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Course Number | Course Title |
ENG 242 | Literature of US Post 1860 |
ENG 494 | Special Topics |
Spring 2018 | |
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Course Number | Course Title |
ENG 242 | Literature of US Post 1860 |
ENG 494 | Special Topics |
Fall 2017 | |
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Course Number | Course Title |
ENG 242 | Literature of US Post 1860 |
ENG 333 | American Ethnic Literature |