Ph.D. Student Profiles

Shari Goldberg
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,’” currently under review

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
Curriculum vitae