Title: Associate Professor of English

Department: English

Office: Benson 321
Phone: 615-322-2325
Fax: 615-343-8028
Email: teresa.a.goddu@vanderbilt.edu

Degrees

• Ph.D., English, University of Pennsylvania , 1991.
• B. A., English, Yale University, 1986.

Research Area

• American Literature and Culture

Professional Honors

• National Endowment for the Humanities University Fellowship, 2005.

Publications

• Gothic America: Narrative, History, and Nation. New York: Columbia University Press, 1997.
• Selling Antislavery: Antebellum Print Culture and Social Reform (in progress)
• Selected Articles:
• “Hawthorne and Class.” This is What Democracy Looks Like: A New Realism for a Post-Seattle World. Eds. Cecelia Tichi and Amy Lang. New Brunswick, N.J.: Rutgers UP, 2006. 131-143.
• “Poe, Sensationalism, and Slavery.” The Cambridge Companion to Poe. Ed. Kevin J. Hayes. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2002. 92-112.
• “Letters Turned to Gold: Hawthorne, Authorship, and Slavery.” Studies in American Fiction 29 (Spring 2001): 49-76.
• “Bloody Daggers and Lonesome Graveyards: The Gothic and Country Music.” South Atlantic Quarterly 94 (Winter 1995): 57-80.