ROBIN TRUTH GOODMAN, Associate Professor, BA in English from the University of Pennsylvania, MA and Phd in Comparative Literature from New York University.
REPRESENTATIVE PUBLICATIONS
Books
- World, Class, Women: Global Literature, Education, and Feminism
(Routledge, 2004). This book looks at the breakdown between the private and public spheres of modern neoliberal power, particularly in how it relates to feminism.
- Strange Love, Or How We Learn to Stop Worrying and Love the Market, (Rowman & Littlefield, 2002). This book explores how popular culture, corporate curricula, multicultural and postcolonial literature, and film sell neoliberal policy to the public through narratives of compassion. Co-written with Dr. Kenneth J. Saltman, School of Education, DePaul University.
- Infertilities: Exploring Fictions of Barren Bodies, University of Minnesota Press, 2001. Applying feminist theory to the critique of globalization, this book looks at the ways Darwin's studies on sterility between species influence representations of female sexuality in postcolonial studies, fictions of empire, Latin American literature, and ethnographic film.
Articles
- "Terrorist Hunter: Walter Mosley, the Urban Plot, and the Terror War". Cultural Critique 66 (Spring 2007): 21-57.
- "Sami al-Arian, the Politics of Injury, and the Academic Bill of Rights". College Literature 33.4 (Fall 2006): 113-136.
- "Harry Potter’s Magic and the Market: What are Youth Learning about Gender, Race, and Class," Workplace: A Journal of Academic Labor (Winter 2004). Read this article online.
- "Teaching for Terror: Writing the Police State," Politics and Culture 3
(2003). Read this article online.
- "Rivers of Fire: Amoco's Impact on Education," The Review of Education/Pedagogy/Cultural Studies Co-written with Dr. Kenneth J. Saltman, School of Education, DePaul University, 2001.
- "Mario Vargas Llosa and the Rape of Sebastiana," Latin American Literary Review XXVII, 53 (January-June 1999): 81-107.
- "Conrad's Closet," Conradiana 30.2 (Summer, 1998): 83-124.
Book Chapters
- "The Independent Women's Forum: Teaching Women's Rights in the 'New Iraq'" in Schooling and the Politics of Disaster. Ed. Kenneth J. Saltman. Routledge, 2007.
- "Etiquette and Missile Defense", In Etiquette: Reflections on Contemporary Comportment, Eds. Ron Scapp and Brian Seitz, SUNY Press 2007.
- "Dick Lit: Corporatization, Militarism, and the Detective Novel." In Education as Enforcement: The Militarization and Corporatization of Schools. Eds. Kenneth J. Saltman and David Gabbard. Routledge, 2003.
- "The Righting of Writing," In Tenured Bosses and Disposable Teachers: Writing Instruction in the Managed University, Eds. Marc Bousquet, Tony Scott, and Leo Parascondola, SIUP, November, 2003.