Lesley Goodman, Ph.D.
Associate Professor of English and Department Chair
lgoodman@albright.edu
Masters Hall 113
Ph.D., English, Harvard University
M.A., English, Harvard University
B.A., English, Swarthmore College
Areas of Expertise
- Nineteenth-century British literature
- The novel
- Reading history and theory
- Narrative theory
- Women’s writing and feminism
- Literature of the British Empire
Courses Taught
ENG 101: Composition
ENG 102: Writing about Texts
ENG 202: British Literature from 1780
ENG 236: Afro-Caribbean Literature
ENG 368: Victorian Literature
ENG 369: Sex in Modern British Fiction
ENG 372: British Literature to 1890
ENG 373: Modern British Fiction
SYN 302: Reading about Reading
Scholarship
- “‘No, Thank You’: Polite Anger from Christina Rossetti to Christine Blasey Ford.” Victorian Studies 62:2 (July 2020)
- “The Shades of Our Grandmothers: New Women, Old Mothers, and Generational Thinking.” Nineteenth-Century Gender Studies 14.1 (Spring 2018)
- “Disappointing Fans: Fandom, Fictional Theory, and the Death of the Author.” Journal of Popular Culture 48:4 (August 2015)
- “Rebellious Identification; or, How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Arabella.” Narrative 18:2 (May 2010)