Audrey Goodman
Professor English- Education
B.A., English Literature, Princeton University, 1988
M.A., English and Comparative Literature, Columbia University, 1991
Ph.D., English and Comparative Literature, Columbia University, 1997
- Biography
Audrey Goodman’s research explores the relations between cultures and landscapes through investigations of literary and visual forms of expression. Her interdisciplinary work emphasizes the interconnected histories of literature and photography in the greater U.S. Southwest, the multiple geographies of modernity, and collaborations across cultures and media.
Professor Goodman’s 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. Other published books and essays address topics ranging from the formation of the Anglo Southwest in the early twentieth century to diverse forms of jazz poetry. She served as co-president of the Western Literature Association from 2021-2022, and she is currently the WLA’s Executive Secretary.
At Georgia State, Prof. Goodman teaches undergraduate and graduate courses in American literature, transnational modernisms, image and text, literature of the U.S.-Mexico borderlands, and Indigenous literatures. As English Department Chair from 2021-2024, she promoted opportunities for students to participate in 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 with Prof. Anna Barattin she recently designed and taught a new study abroad course, Literary Venice.
Specializations
20th and 21st-century American literature; Western American literature; history of American photography; place studies; ethnopoetics; Indigenous literatures of the U.S. Southwest
- Publications
Books
- 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.
- Lost Homelands: Ruin and Reconstruction in the Twentieth-Century Southwest. University of Arizona Press, 2010.
- Translating Southwestern Landscapes: The Making of an Anglo Literary Region. University of Arizona Press, 2002. Reprinted in paper 2016. Winner of Thomas J. Lyon Award, Western Literature Association.
Chapters in Books
- “The Archives of Gardens, with Audrey Goodman.” Living West as Feminists: Conversations about the Where of Us, edited by Krista Comer. University of Nebraska Press, 2024. 147-58
- “Wild, Wicked, and Crazy Brave Tongues: Locating the Collaborative Origins of Sandra Cisneros’s and Joy Harjo’s Poetic Voices.” Ay Tú! Critical Essays on the Life and Work of Sandra Cisneros. Edited by Sonia Saldívar-Hull and Geneva M. Gano. University of Texas Press, 2024. 155-172.
- “What is a Feminist Landscape?” The Routledge Companion to Gender and the American West, ed. Susan Bernardin. Routledge, 2022. 422-436.
- “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).
- “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.
- “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.
- “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.
- “The Nuclear Southwest.” A Companion to the Literature and Culture of the American West. Ed. Nicolas Witschi. London and New York: Blackwell Publishers, 2011. 483-98.
- “Cultivating Otowi Bridge.” Postwestern Cultures: Literature, Theory, Space. Ed. Susan Kollin. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2007. 206-222.
Peer-reviewed Journal Articles
- “‘Wild, Wicked, and Crazy Brave Tongues’: all’origine del legame fra le voci poetiche di Sandra Cisneros e Joy Harjo.” Ácoma 26 (Spring-Summer 2024). https://www.acoma.it/it/content/california-immaginazione-e-disastro
- “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.
- “After Hours, Through the Night: Jazz Poetry and the Temporality of Emergence.” Miranda 20 (Spring 2020), https://doi.org/10.4000/miranda.24424.
- “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.
- “From Fugitive Poses to Visual Sovereignty: The Photo-poetics of Leslie Silko’s Storyteller and Joy Harjo’s Crazy Brave.” Transatlantica, November 2018: https://journals.openedition.org/transatlantica/9305.
- “Assembling California Photobooks.” Iperstoria 11 Special Issue: American Constructions of Photography / Photographic Constructions of America (Spring/Summer 2018): http://www.iperstoria.it/joomla/.
- “Visuality.” Keyword in Western American Literary Studies. Western American Literature 53.1 (Spring 2018): 91-96.
- “Pathways into the Borderlands.” Essay and photo portfolio collaboration with Susan Harbage Page, photographer and creator of the U.S.-Mexico Border Project. Five Points 18.2 (2017): 65-74.
- “Alternating Sounds in The Song of the Lark: Willa Cather’s Acoustic Archive.” Miranda 11 (July 2015): https://miranda.revues.org/6989.
- “Ansel Adams as Portraitist.” Ácoma No. 3 (Spring/Summer 2012): 148-159.
- “Image/Text/Place: Stieglitz and Weston’s Photographic Narratives.” Carrefour Alfred Stieglitz. Ed. Jay Bochner. Rennes, France: Presses Universitaires de Rennes, 2012. 241-54.
- “The Road West, Revised Editions.” Miranda 5 (December 2011): http://www.miranda-ejournal.fr/1/miranda/index.xsp.
- “Windows on the West.” Sojourns 6:1 (Winter/Spring 2011): 24-35.
- Introductions to “Staging American Spaces,” South Atlantic Review 76:2 and 76:4 (2011): 3-44 and 3-126.
- “Representing the Black Place: Towards an Iconography of the Atomic Age.” Southwestern American Literature 33:3 (2008): 69-81.
- “The Tasks of Southwestern Translation: Charles Lummis at Isleta Pueblo, 1888-1892.” Journal of the Southwest 43.3 (2001): 343-378.
- “The Immeasurable Possession of Air: Willa Cather and the Romance of Landscape.” Arizona Quarterly 55.4 (1999): 49-78.
Reviews
- Review of Borderland Brutalities by Laura Elena Belmonte. Forthcoming in American Literary History.
- “Losing the West, Finding Western Worlds.” American Literary History 36.3 (Fall 2024): 824-835. https://academic.oup.com/alh/article-abstract/36/3/824/7731916?utm_source=etoc&utm_campaign=alh&utm_medium=email
- Review of Outback & Out West: The Settler-Colonial Environmental Imaginary by Tom Lynch. American Literary History 36.1 (Spring 2024): 335–338. https://doi.org/10.1093/alh/ajad214
- Review of Geographic Personas: Self-transformation and Performance in the American West by Blake Allmendinger. American Literary History 34.4 (Winter 2022): 1617–1620. https://doi.org/10.1093/alh/ajac194
- Review of Through a Native Lens: American Indian Photography by Nicole Strathman. Journal of Native and Indigenous Studies 9.1 (Spring 2022): 154-155.
- Review of Journeys and Pathways: Contemporary Pueblo Women in Leadership, Service, and the Arts. H-Net Reviews, 2021.
- Review of Enchanting the Desert: A Pattern Language for the Production of Space by Nicholas Bauch. College Art Association News, November 20, 2017.
- Review of Photographing the American Dream by Solomon D. Butcher. Western American Literature, 52.2 (2017): 227-9.
- Review of Engaged Resistance by Dean Rader. Studies in American Indian Literatures 25.1 (2013): 125-128.
- Review of Perimeters of Democracy by Heather Fryer. Western American Literature 47.2 (2012): 109-110.
- Review of Native American Representations, ed. Gretchen M. Bataille. South Atlantic Review 67.4 (2002): 145-7.