Lauren M. E. Goodlad
Director

Lauren Goodlad

Office 100B English
Office Phone: 333-2581

Lauren M. E. Goodlad is associate professor of English and was interim director of the Unit for Criticism and Interpretive Theory in 2008-9 before becoming director in August 2009. She has a B.S. in Industrial and Labor Relations from Cornell University, a Masters in English from NYU, and a Ph.D. from Columbia University. A specialist in Victorian literature and culture, Goodlad also has research and teaching interests in gothic genres; critical, feminist, postcolonial and political theory; cultural studies; and literature in relation to contemporary understandings of liberalism, globalization, internationalism, and development. She is the Victorianist Review Editor for Romanticism and Victorianism on the Net (RaVoN), Co-Head of the Victorian Editorial Board for NINES; a member of the Advisory Boards for Victorian Literature and Culture and Nineteenth-Century Gender Studies; and (beginning July 2011) a member of the PMLA Advisory Committee. In 2010 she was named a University Scholar.

Goodlad is the author of Victorian Literature and the Victorian State: Character and Governance in a Liberal Society (Johns Hopkins, 2003); co-editor of Goth: Undead Subculture (Duke, 2007); co-editor of "States of Welfare," a 2011 special issue of Occasion; of "Comparative Human Rights," a 2010 special issue of the Journal of Human Rights; and of "Victorian Internationalisms," a 2007 special issue of RaVoN. Her articles and reviews have been published in journals such as American Literary History, Cultural Critique, ELH, Genre, MLQ, Nineteenth-Century Literature, Victorian Literature and Culture, and Victorian Studies. She is currently at work completing The Victorian Geopolitical Aesthetic: Realism, Sovereignty, and Transnational Experience, selections from which have appeared in venues such as Literature Compass, PMLA, Novel: A Forum on Fiction, and The Politics of Gender in Anthony Trollope’s Novels (Ashgate, 2009). Goodlad is also the the author of an essay, originally titled "Madmen Yourself," which appeared in The Chronicle of Higher Education and has since been reprinted in The McGraw Hill Reader.

Victorian Literature and the VIctorian State (Johns Hopkins, 2003)

Goth: Undead Subculture (Duke, 2007)

"Victorian Internationalisms," a special issue of Romanticism and Victorianism on the Net co-edited with Julia M. Wright, Nov 2008

"Trollopian Form," A cluster of essays in Literature Compass, September 2010
"Trollopian Form: An Introduction" (Goodlad)
"Trollope's Chapters" (Dames)
"Trollope, Seriality, and the 'Dullness' of Form" (Dever)
"The Trollopian Geopolitical Aesthetic" (Goodlad)

Links to Select Publications:

"Cosmopolitanism's Actually Existing Beyond; Toward a Victorian Geopolitical Aesthetic," Victorian Literature and Culture, 2010	"Imperial Woman: Harriet Martineau, Geopolitics and the Romance of Improvement," Harriet Martineau: Authorship, Society and Empire, 2010	"Trollopian 'Foreign Policy': Rootedness and Cosmopolitanism in the Mid-Victorian Global Imaginary," PMLA, 2009	"Madmen Yourself," Chronicle of Higher Education, 2009

"'Character worth Speaking Of': Individuality, John Stuart Mill, and the Critique of Liberalism" Victorians Institute Journal, 2008	"Where Liberals Fear to Tread: E. M. Forster's Queer Internationalism and the Ethics of Care," Novel, 2006	Review of Amanda Anderson, The Way We Argue Now: A Study in the Cultures of Theory, Nineteenth-Century Literature, 2007	"Men in Black: Androgyny and Ethics in The Crow and Fight Club," Goth: Undead Subculture, 2007

	"Packaged Alternatives: The Incorporation and Gendering of 'Alternative' Radio", Communities of the Air: Radio Century, Radio Culture (Duke UP, 2003)	"'A Middle Class Cut into Two': Historiography and Victorian National Character," ELH, 2000

Lauren M. E. Goodlad Director

Lauren M. E. Goodlad
Director