RESUME
PERSONAL
Name: Philip Goldstein
Rank: Professor of English
Business Address: The
Business Phone: 302 573‑5406
Home Address:
Home Phone: 302 368‑1124
Email address: pgold@udel.edu
Homepage: http://udel.edu/~pgold/webpage/HomepagePG.html
EDUCATION
1985 (January): Ph.D,
English Department,
1977 (January): M.A., English
Department,
1973: Teaching Certification, Secondary English
1971: M.A. plus thirty credits, Department of Philosophy,
1966: B.A., English,
AWARDS
A
Laptop computer award for innovative teaching, College of Arts & Sciences, 1999
General University of Delaware Research Grant, Summer, 1993
Tuition Scholarship, The School of Literary Criticism and Theory at Northwestern, Summer, 1981
Graduate Teaching
Assistantship, Dept. of English,
Semi‑Finalist,
Fulbright‑Hays Research Grant to
NDEA Title IV
Fellowship, Dept. of Philosophy,
Full Tuition
Scholarship,
PUBLICATIONS AND PAPERS
Post-Marxist Theory: An
Introduction. Trans Zhoufan (China Renmin University
Press, 2009)
American
Reception Study: Reconsiderations and New Directions. Edited by Philip Goldstein and James Machor (
Post-Marxist
Theory: An Introduction (SUNY-Albany Press
2005). See http://www.sunypress.edu/details.asp?id=61040
Communities of Cultural Value: Reception Study, Political Differences,
and Literary History
Reception Study: From Literary Theory to Cultural Studies (An anthology) Ed. and Intro. by Philip Goldstein and James Machor. Routledge Press (2001)
Styles of Cultural Activism: From Theory and Pedagogy to Women,
Indians, and Communism. Ed. and Intro. by Philip Goldstein.
The Politics of Literary Criticism: An Introduction to Marxist Cultural
Theory. Spring, 1990: The
1. "Gothic Romances and the Modern
Humanities: the Changing Status of Northanger Abbey and Frankenstein."
2. "Crime and Ideological Subversion: Light in August and Jazz as (anti) detective Novels."
3.
“French Cultural Theory After Althusser”
Accepted for Publication or in Print:
1. “Richard Wright’s Native Son: Between Naturalist Protest and Modernist
Liberation.” American Reception Study:
Reconsiderations and New Directions.
Edited by Philip Goldstein and James Machor (
2. "
3.
"Richard Wright's Native Son:
From Communism to Black Studies and Beyond" (Forthcoming, Rodopi Press volume on Native
Son).
4. "Marxist Theory: From Aesthetic Critique
to Cultural Politics." A Left Ontology. Edited by Carsten
Strathausen (forthcoming,
5. Invited
essay on aesthetics and reception study, Infusion
Approach: Theory, Contestation, Limits. Edited by Ranjan Ghosh, Department of English,
6. “Black Feminism and the Canon: Faulkner’s Absalom, Absalom! and Morrison’s Beloved as Gothic Romances,” The Faulkner Journal XX (Fall 2004/Spring 2005): 133-47.
7. “Reader-Response Criticism,” in The Johns
8. “From
Althusserian Science to Foucauldian Materialism: The Later Work of Pierre Macherey,” Rethinking Marxism, 16 (July 2004):
327-38.
9. "Poststructuralist Theory and Democratic Politics: The Postmarxism of Ernesto Laclau and Chantal Mouffe," in Postmodernism: Key Figures. Edited by Joseph Natoli. Blackwell Press, 2002.
10. "Orwell as a Neoconservative: The Reception
of 1984," The Journal of the
11. "Critical Realism or Black Modernism?: The Reception of Their Eyes Were Watching God," The Reader (Spring 1999): 1-20.
12. "Hamlet: idealism, reception, history" The Society for the Study of European Ideas (November 1998).
13. "Communism and Postmodern Theory: A Revaluation of Althusser's Marxism." Rethinking Marxism, 10, 3 (Fall 1997): 79-98.
14. "Telling the Ugly Truth: Communism, Theory, Spies, Art," History of European Ideas, 20, 1-3 (1995): 219-24.
15. Introduction, "The Legacy of Louis Althusser," Studies in 20th Century Literature, 18, 1 (Winter, 1994): 9-13. A special issue edited by Philip Goldstein.
16. "Althusserian Theory: From Structuralist Science to Foucaultian History." Studies in 20th Century Literature, 18, 1 (Winter, 1994): 15-26.
17. Introduction, Styles of Cultural Activism: From Theory and Pedagogy to Women, Indians, and Communism. Ed. and Intro. by Philip Goldstein (Newark: University of Delaware Press, 1993): 7-10.
18."Althusser, Foucault, and Affirmative History," in Styles of Cultural Activism: From Theory and Pedagogy to Women, Indians, and Communism. Ed. and Intro. by Philip Goldstein (Newark: University of Delaware Press, 1993): 32-47.
19."Telling the Ugly Truth: Communism, Theory, Spies, Art," in Styles of Cultural Activism: From Theory and Pedagogy to Women, Indians, and Communism. Ed. and Intro. by Philip Goldstein (Newark: University of Delaware Press, 1993): 233-55.
20.“Communism, Resistance, Postmodernism." Nature, Society, Thought, 4, 4 (1991): 429-40.
21."Criticism and Institutions: The Conflicted Reception of Jane Austen's Fiction." Studies in the Humanities, 18, 1 (1991):35-55.
22."The Politics of Fredric Jameson's Literary Criticism," Postmodernism/Jameson/Critique (Spring, 1989: Maisonneuve): 249-67.
23. "Humanism and the Politics of Truth," Boundary 2 Fall/Winter, 1984/1985): 235-58.
24. "Logic, Writing and Deconstruction ‑‑
Can the Media Make Sense?" Bulletin,
MLA of
25. "Romanticism and Modernity in Marxist
Literary Criticism," in Continuity
and Change in Marxist Theory, ed. Norman Fischer and others (
26."Hamlet ‑‑ Not a World of its Own," Shakespeare Studies, XII(1980): 71-82.
COURSES TAUGHT:
E. 110: Freshman Composition E. 341: Am. Lit. From 1865
E. 015: Preparatory English to WWII
E. 204: American Writers II E. 345: African-American
E. 206: British Writers II Lit. II
E. 209: Intro to the Novel E. 480: Modern Criticism
E. 210: The Short Story E. 684: History of Literary
E. 300: Texts and Contexts Criticism
E. 324: Shakespeare E. 685: Cultural Theory
Phil 100: Philosophies of Life
Phil 102: Problems of Philosophy
Phil 243: Aesthetics
43. "Culture Wars: A
Roundtable," Cultural Studies Symposium,
44. "Men, Spies, Art: From `Rambo'
to Zuckerman," Popular Culture Association,
45. "Pride and Prejudice: From Humble Chronicle to Feminist Critique," Northeast Modern Language Association, Boston, March 31-April 1, 1995, and The Society For the Study of Narrative Literature, Park City, Utah, April 20-22, 1995
46. "Cold War Fiction: From
`Rambo' to Zuckerman,"
47. "Althusser, Derrida, and Postmodern Cultural Theory," Midwest Modern Language Association, St. Louis, November 2-4, 1995, The American Philosophical Association, New York, December 27-30, 1995, and The International Society for the Study of European Ideas, Utrecht, Netherlands, August 19-24, 1996
48. "Ideological Conformity in
(Post)modernist American Fiction: Nabakov,
Kundera, Roth," Twentieth-Century Literature
Conference,
49. "Cultural Studies,
Anti-Theory, and Reception," Discerning the Right,
50. "Dramas of Marxism: Althusser,
Communism, and Postmodern Theory," The International Association for
Philosophy and Literature 1996 Conference,
51. "Hamlet in the Culture Wars," The Summer Institute on Culture and Society, George Mason University, June 8-11, and The International Society for the Study of European Ideas, Utrecht, Netherlands, August 19-24, 1996.
52. "Pride and Prejudice:
From Humble Chronicle to Feminist Critique,"
53. "Institutions of
Literary/Cultural Value," Midwest Modern Language Association,
54. "Orwell as a Neoconservative:
The Reception of 1984," Twentieth-Century Literature Conference,
Louisville, February 20-22, 1997, and The Popular Culture Association, San
Antonio, Texas, March 26-9, 1997.
55.
"Marxism and/as Humanism: The Reception of Hamlet," and Chair
and Respondent, "The Reception of Modern American Women Writers," The
Midwest MLA, November 5-7, 1998,
56. "Gender, Spies, and Art: From
Spillane, Fleming, and LeCarré to Kundera
and Roth," MLA,
57. "Critical Realism or Black
(Post)Modernism? The Reception of Zora Neale Hurston's
Their Eyes Were Watching God," MLA, San Francisco, December 27-30,
1998; keynote address, conference on "Forgotten
Voices of the Twentieth Century," School of Languages, University of Westminster,
London, Saturday, June 5, 1999; and guest
lecture, Department of English, Nottingham-Trent University, June 30, 1999.
58.
"Conformity or Resistance? The Reception of Morrison's The Bluest Eye and Sula
The Midwest MLA Nov. 3-5, 1999
59. “Feminism and
Formal Study: Sandra Gilbert and Susan Gubar as Radicals,” Modern Language
Association, December 27-30, 1999,
60. “Reception Study and Multiculturalism,”
Modern Language Association, December 27-30, 1999,
61. “Critical Theory and Literary
History: Foucault vs (Post)Modernism,”
Second Annual University of South Carolina Comparative Literature Conference,
March 16-18, 2000,
62. “Communities of Value: Deconstruction, Reception, History,”
Northeast Modern Language Association Convention, April 7-8, 2000,
63.
"Post-Structuralist Theory and Democratic Politics: The Marxism of Ernesto
Laclau and Chantal Mouffe," International Association for Philosophy and
Literature, May 9-13, 2000, Stony
64. "PostMarxism
and Literary History: From Realism to Reception Study" RETHINKING MARXISM
Conference 21-24 September 2000
65. “The Canon and Black
Feminism: the Reception of Faulkner’s Absalom, Absalom and Morrison’s Beloved”
M/MLA Convention November 2-4, 2000,
66. “Gender and Genre
in Paretsky and Spillane,” Popular Culture Association, April 12-15, 2001,
67.
"Faulkner, Morrison, and Gothic Romance," the International Gothic Association
Conference, June 14-17, 2001,
68. “Michel
Foucault, Cultural Studies, and Reception Study,” Cultural Studies: Between
Politics and Ethics (An International Interdisciplinary Conference), 6-8 July
2001,
69. “Black Feminism and the Canon: Faulkner's Absalom,
Absalom and Morrison's Beloved as Gothic Romances,” American Women
Writers of Color Conference, October 19-21, 2001,
70. “Gender and Genre in Sara Paretsky’s
and Mickey Spillane’s Detective Fiction,” Midwest Modern Language Association,
Nov. 1-3, 2001,
71. “The
Feminist Post-Marxism of Judith Butler,” MLG Summer Institute on Culture and
Society,
72. “Gender and Genre in Sara Paretsky’s Mysteries,” Crossroads: The Fourth International
Conference in Cultural Studies, Tampere, Finland, June 29-July 2, 2002.
73. “Feminism
and Gothic Horror in Frankenstein and Northanger Abbey,” Midwest
Modern Language Association,
74. "Reception Study: Between Aesthetics and
Politics," Department of Rhetoric, University of California at Berkeley,
April 30, 2003, and the International Association of Philosophy and Literature,
Leeds, England, May 27, 2003.
75. “Canonical Art and Gothic Horror: The
Changing Status of Frankenstein and Northanger Abbey,” Midwest Modern Language Association,
76.
"Sex, Gender, and Race: Judith Butler's Post-Marxist
Feminism," American Comparative Literature Association,
77.
"Richard Wright’s Native Son:
From Communism to Black Studies and Beyond." The
Midwest Modern Language Association,
78. "Reception Study: Between Aesthetics and
Politics," American Comparative Literature Association, March, 2005.
79. “
80. “Marxist Cultural Theory: Between Aesthetics
and Politics,” Modern Language Association, December 27-30, 2005,
81. “Gothic Horror, High Art, and the Modern
Humanities: the Changing Status of Frankenstein
and Northanger Abbey” Cultural
Studies Association,
82. "Between Aesthetics and Politics: The
Reception of Faulkner's Light in August and Morrison's Jazz" American
Literature Association, San Francisco, May 26-9, 2006
83. “Post-Althusserian Cultural Theory,”
Rethinking Marxism Conference,
84.
“The Politics of Reception Study” and “Liberal Realism, Race, and
Huckleberry
Finn,” The
November 9-12
85.
“Interpretation, Politics, and Evil” and “Reception and Literary
Theory: Teaching Hamlet,” Modern Language Association,
December 27-30
President,
Various Assoc. of Arts Program and College and University Committees
EMPLOYMENT
2001-present
Professor of English and Philosophy,
1990-2001
Associate Professor, English and Philosophy,
1984-1990
Assistant Professor, English and Philosophy,
1978‑1984 Instructor,
1977‑78
Instructor, English and Philosophy,
1976‑77
Instructor,
1975‑77
Instructor, Goldey‑Beacom College,
1974‑75
English teacher, Clayton High School, Clayton, N.J.
1973‑74
English Teacher, West Morris Regional High School, Chester, N.J.
REFERENCES
Steven Mailloux
UCI Chancellor's Professor
of Rhetoric
Department of English and Comparative Literature
University of California-Irvine
949 824-6712
sjmaillo@benfranklin.hnet.uci.edu
Professor James Machor
Department of English
106
785 532-2163
machor@ksu.edu
Professor Patrocinio Schweikart
Department of English and Women's Studies
Heavilon Hall
765
494-3740
pschweic@sla.purdue.edu
David Teague,
Associate Professor of English
302 571-5395
Teague@udel.edu
Toby Miller,
Professor of English and Sociology
English Department
Watkins Hall 1140
(951) 827-6078
tobym@ucr.edu