Audrey Goodman
Professor English- Education
Ph.D., Columbia University, 1997
- Specializations
Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century American
Literature and Southwestern Studies
- Biography
Audrey Goodman’s research integrates studies of place, landscape, and region with investigations of literary and visual forms of expression. Her interdisciplinary work on the cultures of greater U.S. Southwest is recognized in the fields of western American literary studies and modernist studies, fields to which she has contributed books and essays on such topics as the formation of the Anglo Southwest, the Southwest literary borderlands, the collaborative origins of Sandra Cisneros’s and Joy Harjo’s poetic voices, jazz poetry, Indigenous poetics, global networks of photographic modernism, Tina Modotti’s errant visions, and feminist landscapes. Her most recent book, A Planetary Lens: The Photo-poetics of Western Women’s Writing (University of Nebraska Press), won the Thomas J. Lyon Award in 2022 for the best critical on Western American Literature from the Western Literature Association and the SAMLA Book Prize. With Prof. Lisa Tatonetti (Kansas State University), she served as co-president of the Western Literature Association from 2021-2022.
At GSU, Prof. Goodman teaches undergraduate and graduate courses in American literature, transnational modernisms, image and text, literature of the U.S.-Mexico borderlands, and Indigenous literature. As English Department Chair from 2021-2024, she promoted opportunities for students to participate in EPIC labs, field schools, and study abroad programs. She has held positions as Visiting Professor at the University of Toulouse and at the University of Bergamo, and she currently directs a student-faculty exchange program with Jean-François Champollion University in Albi.
Specializations
20th and 21st-century American literature; Western American literature; history of American photography; place studies; Indigenous literatures of the U.S. Southwest
- Publications
SELECTED RECENT PUBLICATIONS
A Planetary Lens: The Photo-poetics of Western Women’s Writing. University of Nebraska Press, 2021. Winner of Thomas J. Lyon Award, Western Literature Association. Winner of SAMLA Book Prize.
“What is a Feminist Landscape?” The Routledge Companion to Gender and the American West, ed. Susan Bernardin. New York and London: Routledge, 2022. 422-436.
Living West as Feminists: The Where of Us. Blog, created and edited by Krista Comer (Rice University). https://feministwests.blogs.rice.edu/blog/
“Native/Black Birds: Voicing the Ruptures of Modernity through Joy Harjo’s Indigenous Jazz Poetics.” The Routledge Handbook of North American Indigenous Modernisms, eds. Kirby Brown, Stephen Ross, and Alana Sayers. New York and London: Routledge, 2022. 139-153. Book Prize Shortlist Winner from Modern Studies Association Prize 2023 (Edition, Anthology, or Essay Collection).
“Poet Warriors: Graphic and Linguistic Rebellion in Contemporary Native Writing.” Staging American Rebellion, Mise en scène de la rébellion dans les Amériques, Escenificar la rebelión en las Américas, special issue of L’Ordinaire des Amériques (ORDA), Spring 2023. https://journals.openedition.org/orda/8556.
“Looking Beyond the West from the Dairy Queen: Local Apertures, Planetary Visions.” The New American West in Literature and the Arts: A Journey Across Boundaries. Ed. Amaia Ibarraran-Bigalondo. New York and London: Routledge, 2020. 223-240.
“After Hours, Through the Night: Jazz Poetry and the Temporality of Emergence.” Miranda 20 (Spring 2020), https://doi.org/10.4000/miranda.24424.
“New Bohemias, California Style: The Intimate and Global Networks of Photographic Modernism.” Left in the West. Ed. Gioia Woods. Reno: University of Nevada Press, 2018. 277-304.
“Re-locating the U.S.-Mexico Borderlands: Susan Harbage Page’s Vibrant Border Zones.” Studies in the Literary Imagination 50:1 (Spring 2017): 45-68.
“Local Apertures and Errant Visions: Tina Modotti’s Mexican Modernism.” Écritures dans les Amériques au feminin. Eds. Dante Barrientos-Tecus and Anne Reynes-Delobel. Aix-en-Provence: Presses universitaires de Provence. Open Edition. 2017.
“Southwest Literary Borderlands.” Cambridge History of Western American Literature. Ed. Susan Kollin. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2015. 154-161.
SELECTED RECENT PRESENTATIONS
“No Boundaries to My Dreams: American Writers in Venice.” Invited speaker, Convivio Writer’s Conference, Postignano, Italy. June 2024.
“Radiant Curves: The Shimmering Forms of Native Poetics.” Invited speaker, Convivio Writers’ Conference, Postignano, Italy. June 2023.
“Transregionalism and Ecofeminism in Western American Literature.” Invited speaker, Online Lecture Series, Meiji University, Tokyo, Japan. July 29, 2022.
“‘I Dream with one eye open’: The Photo-poetics of Journeys West of the Mississippi,” Keynote Speaker, Vth International Conference on the American Literary and Cultural West. University of the Basque Country (UPV/EPU), Vitoria-Gastiez, Spain, October 5, 2021.
“‘A WholeWay of Seeing’: Storytelling through Lee Marmon’s Photographic Archive.” Featured Lecturer, Peoples and Places Lecture Series, Center for Southwest Research, University of New Mexico February 25, 2021