Lauren M. E. Goodlad
Director

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, and a member of the Advisory Board for Nineteenth-Century Gender Studies. 

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), and co-editor of "Victorian Internationalisms," a special issue of RaVoN ;which appeared in November 2007. 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: Literature, Internationalisms, and "The South," selections from which have appeared in 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.