Department of English, College of LAS, University of Illinois

Lauren M E Goodlad

Associate Professor of English and Criticism and Interpretive Theory

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  • Tu 3-5; Fri by appt.

Education

BSILR, Cornell University; Masters in English, NYU; PhD in English, Columbia University

Teaching Interests

Recent graduate seminars include The Victorian 'South', Victorian Character, Development as Freedom? (18th and 19th c. Cultures of Development), Victorian Internationalisms, and Transatlantic Blackness (co-taught with Mark Christian Thompson). Recent undergraduate courses include Victorian Sensations, The Age of Victoria, Novels without Borders, and Goth/ic Genres.

Research Interests

My work centers on Victorian literature and culture; gothic genres; critical, feminist, postcolonial and political theory; cultural studies; and literature in relation to contemporary understandings of liberalism, globalization, internationalism and development. I am the Director of the Unit for Criticism and Interpretive Theory, the Victorianist Review Editor for Romanticism and Victorianism on the Net (RaVoN), Co-Head of the Victorian Editorial Board for NINES; a member of the Executive Council for NAVSA, and a member of the Advisory Board for Nineteenth-Century Gender Studies. My first book, Victorian Literature and the Victorian State, came out with Johns Hopkins in 2003. Since that time I have co-edited Goth: Undead Subculture (Duke 2007) and "Victorian Internationalisms," a November 2007 special issue of RaVoN. Recent publications include "Trollopian 'Foreign Policy,'" an abridged chapter from my current book project which appeared in the March 2009 issue of PMLA; an essay on John Stuart Mill in a 2008 issue of Victorians Institute Journal; a chapter in a forthcoming collection of essays on Harriet Martineau; a position paper, "Toward a Theory of the Victorian Geopolitical Aesthetic," in a forthcoming special issue of Victorian Literature and Culture; and an August 2009 essay in The Chronicle of Higher Education on the television show, Mad Men. Please see the Unit for Criticism and Interpretive Theory website for links to some of my published work as well as detailed information about the Unit's programs.

Publications

Works in Progress

  • I am currently at work completing "The Victorian Geopolitical Aesthetic: Literature, Internationalism, and 'the South.'" Articles from this project have appeared in Novel: A Forum on Fiction; PMLA; The Politics of Gender in Anthony Trollope's Novels; and as one of a cluster of articles, "Trollopian Form," forthcoming in Literature Compass. I am also editing, with Eleni Coundouriotis, "Comparative Human Rights," a special issue of the Journal of Human Rights.