Brian Goodman
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Ross-Blakley Hall 329 PO Box 871401 TEMPE, AZ 85287-1401
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Mail code: 1401Campus: Tempe
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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 first book, The Nonconformists: American and Czech Writers across the Iron Curtain, is forthcoming from Harvard University Press in June 2023. 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.
- Ph.D. American Studies, Harvard University 2016
- M.St. English, University of Oxford, U.K. 2007
- B.A. American Studies, Stanford University 2006
Recent and Forthcoming Publications:
The Nonconformists: American and Czech Writers across the Iron Curtain. Forthcoming from Harvard University Press, Spring 2023.
“American Jewish Writers and the Eastern Bloc: The Dissident Generation.” In The Bloomsbury Handbook to Cold War Literary Studies, edited by Greg Barnhisel, pp. 113-130. London: Bloomsbury Academic, 2022.
"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
2025 Spring
| Course Number | Course Title |
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| ENG 300 | Your Degree in the World |
| ENG 300 | Your Degree in the World |
| REL 690 | Reading and Conference |
2024 Fall
| Course Number | Course Title |
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| ENG 242 | Literature of US Post 1860 |
| ENG 332 | Race&Ethnicity in Lit/Culture |
2024 Spring
| Course Number | Course Title |
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| ENG 444 | Interdisciplinary Lit&Culture |
2023 Fall
| Course Number | Course Title |
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| ENG 242 | Literature of US Post 1860 |
| ENG 538 | Studies Mod/Contemp Amer Lit |
2023 Spring
| Course Number | Course Title |
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| ENG 211 | Intro to English Studies |
2022 Fall
| Course Number | Course Title |
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| ENG 242 | Literature of US Post 1860 |
| ENG 332 | Race&Ethnicity in Lit/Culture |
2022 Spring
| Course Number | Course Title |
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| ENG 242 | Literature of US Post 1860 |
| ENG 333 | American Ethnic Literature |
2021 Fall
| Course Number | Course Title |
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| ENG 242 | Literature of US Post 1860 |
| ENG 444 | Interdisciplinary Lit&Culture |
2020 Fall
| Course Number | Course Title |
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| ENG 242 | Literature of US Post 1860 |
| ENG 200 | Critical Reading & Writing/Lit |
2020 Spring
| Course Number | Course Title |
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| ENG 242 | Literature of US Post 1860 |
| ENG 333 | American Ethnic Literature |