Title: Assistant Professor
Department: English
Office: 421 Benson Hall
Phone: 615-322-6026
Fax: 615-343-8028
Email: sx.goudie@vanderbilt.edu
Degrees
- Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley (1999)
- MA, North Carolina State University (1993)
- AB, Davidson College (1986)
Research Area
- Early American Studies
- Nineteenth-Century American Studies
- Caribbean Studies
- Postcolonial Theory
Current Courses
- Fall 2006
- ENG 118W: Introduction to Literary and Cultural Analysis
- ENG 273W (G): Captivity in American Literature and Culture, 17th-century to the Present (honors seminar)
- Spring 2007
- ENG 272E: Early American Literature
- ENG 271W: Caribbean Literature
Current Positions
- Vice-President, Charles Brockden Brown Society
Professional Honors
- Barra Postdoctoral Fellow, McNeil Center for Early American Studies (U Penn), 2002-2003
Publications
- BOOK
- Creole America: The West Indies and the Formation of Literature and Culture in the New Republic (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2006)
- SELECTED ARTICLES
- "The 'Creole Complex' and the Formation of Literature and Culture in the New Republic" - American Literature (forthcoming)
- "The West Indies, Commerce and a Play for U.S. Empire: Recovering J. Robinson's The Yorker's Strategem" - Early American Literature (2005)
- "On the Origin of American Species(s): The West Indies, Classification, and the Emergence of Supremacist Consciousness in Arthur Mervyn" - Revising Charles Brockden Brown: Culture, Politics, and Sexuality in the Early Republic (2004)
- "Fabricating Ideology: Clothing, Culture, and Colonialism in Melville's Typee" - Criticism (1998)
- "Leavin' a Mark on the Wor(l)d: Marksmen and Marked Men in Middle Passage" - African American Review (1995)
