Ellen Goldner , Assistant Professor
PhD, Brandeis University



goldner@mail.csi.cuny.edu
office: 2S-229 / phone: (718) 982-3682

Academic interests:
I study nineteenth- and twentieth-century American literature and culture (including popular culture), especially as they concern issues of gender, race and nation.  I have published work primarily on nineteenth-century American narratives, although I have also written on twentieth century fiction and film.  My work is New Historicist:  i.e. it is informed by post-modern theories about the social construction of narrative, visual culture, race and gender, at the same time that it is grounded in the historical issues of particular times.  I am currently writing about relations between anti-slavery literature and visual culture in the antebellum period.
 
Selected Publications
2001, Racing and (E)racing Language:  Living with the Color of Our Words .  Syracuse: Syracuse UP. (Edited collection.  Co-editor: Safiya Henderson-Holmes).
 
2001, "Arguing with Pictures:  Race, Class and the Formation of Popular Abolitionism through Uncle Tom's Cabin ," Journal of American and Comparative Cultures   24.1:71-84.

1999, "Slavery and Other(ed) Ghosts: Gothicism and the Bonds of Reason in Melville, Chesnutt, and  Morrison,"  MELUS   24.1:59-83.
 
1992, "The Lying Woman and the Cause of Social Anxiety: Interdependence and the Woman's Body  in The House of Mirth ,"   21:285-305.