Kevis Goodman, Associate Professor
Office: 477 Wheeler
Phone: 510-642-2323
Email: kgoodman@berkeley.edu
Areas of Interest
18th-Century British Literature, 19th-Century British Literature, with particular interests in poetry, moral philosophy, and science. Milton.Professional Statement
I am writing a book on the literature and history of the disease once called nostalgia, as it migrated from its original niche in the medical and human sciences of wartime, emigration, and colonial mobility into the emerging disciplines of aesthetics and criticism taking shape in the Romantic era.
Selected Awards:
UC Berkeley Distinguished Teaching Award, 2005
UC Berkeley Faculty Award for Outstanding Mentorship of Graduate Instructors, 2004
Barbara Thom Postdoctoral Fellow, Huntington Library, California
Selected Publications and Papers Delivered
Book:
Georgic Modernity and British Romanticism: Poetry and the Mediation of History. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2004. Paperback Re-issue, 2008.
Full Length Articles and Book Chapters:
"Romantic Poetry and the Science of Nostalgia," in The Cambridge Companion to British Romantic Poetry, eds. James Chandler and Maureen McLane (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2008)
"Magnifying Small Things: Georgic Modernity and the Noise of History," European Romantic Review 15:2 (Summer 2004): 215-227
"The Loophole in the Retreat: The Culture of News and the Early Life of Romantic Self-Consciousness," South Atlantic Quarterly 102:1 (Winter 2003): 25-52
"'Wasted Labor'?: Milton's Eve. The Poet's Work, and the Problem of Sympathy," ELH 64:4 (Summer 1997): 415-446
"Making Time for History: Wordsworth, the New Historicism, and the Apocalyptic Fallacy," Studies in Romanticism 35:4 (Winter 1996): 563-577. Reprinted, with new "Afterword 2004," in The Wordsworthian Enlighenment and the Ecology of Reading, eds. Helen R. Elam and Frances Ferguson (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2005).
Short Articles and Reviews:
Review, Nostalgia in Transition, 1780-1914, by Linda M. Austin, Nineteenth-Century Studies (Autumn 2007): 122-125
"Geoffrey Hartman's 'Psychoaesthetics,'" The Wordsworth Circle 37:1 (Winter, 2006): 17-19
Review, The Work of Writing: Literature and Social Change, 1700-1830, by Clifford Siskin, Modern Language Quarterly 61:3 (Fall 2000): 545-551
Office Hours
Tuesdays 4-5:30 p.m. and Fridays 10-11:30 a.m. (Fall 2009)
