Graduate Studies in English
B.A. English (Cum Laude), Vassar College
Dissertation Title:
“Quiet Testimony: Literary Silence as Political Gesture in 19th-Century American Literature”
Research Interests:
19th-Century American Literature, Early American Literature, Critical Theory, Post-Holocaust Literature, Jewish Studies, Photography
Select Publications:
“From Quietism to Quiet Politics: Reading Emerson's Anti-Slavery Testimony through
‘George Fox’ and ‘Spiritual Laws,’” under consideration at Nineteenth-Century Literature
Select Conference Presentations:
Ph.D. Student Profiles
Shari GoldbergB.A. English (Cum Laude), Vassar College
Dissertation Title:
“Quiet Testimony: Literary Silence as Political Gesture in 19th-Century American Literature”
Research Interests:
19th-Century American Literature, Early American Literature, Critical Theory, Post-Holocaust Literature, Jewish Studies, Photography
Select Publications:
“From Quietism to Quiet Politics: Reading Emerson's Anti-Slavery Testimony through
‘George Fox’ and ‘Spiritual Laws,’” under consideration at Nineteenth-Century Literature
Select Conference Presentations:
- “’Prying, Peeping, Peering’: The Ethics of Naturalism,” American Literature Association
Annual Conference, Boston, MA, May 2007 - “Raking Language: Emerson’s ’Address on the Emancipation,’” Americanist Symposium: Micropolitics, Syracuse, NY, October 26, 2006
- “The Quietest Testimony,” American Comparative Literature Association Annual
Meeting, Princeton, NJ, March 2006
Select Fellowships and Awards:
- Thorns Dissertation Fellowship, University at Albany English Department, 2007-
- Vassar Graduate Fellowship, Vassar College, 2006-7
- Tuition Scholarship, School of Criticism & Theory, Cornell University, Summer 2006
Select Teaching Experience:
ENG 337: 19th-Century American Literature
ENG 295: Classics of Western Literature
ENG 261: American Literary Traditions
ENG 240: Growing Up in America
JST 255: Holocaust: Lessons and Legacies (Teaching Assistant)
spgoldberg@gmail.com
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