Kevis Goodman
Associate Professor and Director of Undergraduate Studies
477 Wheeler HallTues: 10:30am -12:30pm. [Drop-in.] If you prefer Zoom, please email for an appointment.
kgoodman@berkeley.edu Specialties
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Critical TheoryRenaissance and Early Modern18th-Century BritishPoetry
Professional Statement
I teach and write in the fields of later 17th-Century British literature (especially Milton), 18th-Century British Literature (especially after 1740), and Romanticism. Within those historical periods, my interests gravitate toward?questions concerning aesthetics and?poetics, science and literature, and literary historiography.? My first book was
Georgic Modernity and British Romanticism: Poetry and the Mediation of History (Cambridge 2004; paperback edition 2008). My second book,
Pathologies of Motion: Historical Thinking in Medicine, Aesthetics and Poetics, is forthcoming from Yale University Press (2022). See also under Selected Publications.
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Books ....(read more)
FIELDS:
Critical Theory
Poetry
18th-Century British
Scottish
Edited by Kevis Goodman, who provides an introduction to the work of Eric L. Santner, this volume collects ?expanded versions of Santner’s 2014 Berkeley Tanner Lectures, with commentaries by Bonnie Honig, Peter Gordon, and Hent de Vries.Eric Santne....(read more)
FIELDS:
Critical Theory
Cultural Studies
This book traces connections between Georgic verse and developments in other spheres from the late seventeenth to the early nineteenth centuries: the mediation of perception by scientific instruments, of events by newspapers, of knowledge by the fee....(read more)
FIELDS:
18th-Century British
Selected Publications and Papers Delivered
Books
Georgic Modernity and British Romanticism: Poetry and the Mediation of History. Cambridge, Eng.: Cambridge University Press, 2004.? Paperback Edition, 2008.
Pathologies of Motion: Enlightenment Medicine and Romantic Poetics.? In Progress.
Edited Volumes
Eric L. Santner, Kevis Goodman (ed. and introd.). The Weight of All Flesh: On the Subject-Matter of Political Economy. In the Berkeley Tanner Lectures Series. With commentary by Bonnie Honig, Peter Gordon, and Hent de Vries. ?Oxford: Oxford University Press. 2015.
About Geoffrey Hartman: Materials for a Study of Influence. Ed. Frances Ferguson and Kevis Goodman.? A special issue of Philological Quarterly 92:3 (2014).
Full-length Articles and Book Chapters
Reading Motion: Coleridge’s ‘Free Spirit’ and its Medical Background.” European Romantic Review 26:3? (2015): 349-356.
“Wordsworth and Eighteenth-Century Poetry.”?William Wordsworth in Context. Ed. Andrew J. Bennett.? Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2015. 91-100.
"Conjectures on Beachy Head: Charlotte Smith’s Geological Poetics and the Grounds of the Present.” ELH 81:3 (2014):? 983-1006
“Uncertain Disease: ?Nostalgia, Pathologies of Motion, Practices of Reading.” Studies in Romanticism 49:2 (2010): 197-227.
“Geoffrey Hartman’s A Scholar’s Tale: An Essay Review.” The Wordsworth Circle 39:4 (2008): 136-44.
“Romantic Poetry and the Science of Nostalgia.” The Cambridge Companion to British Romantic Poetry. Ed. James Chandler and Maureen McLane. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2008. 195-216.
“Making Time for History: Wordsworth, the New Historicism, and the Apocalyptic Fallacy. With a New Afterword 2004.”The Wordsworthian Enlightenment: Romantic Poetry and the Ecology of Reading.? Ed. Helen R. Elam and Frances Ferguson. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2005. 158-171.
“Magnifying Small Things: Georgic Modernity and the Noise of History.” European Romantic Review 15:2 (2004): 215-27.
“The Loophole in the Retreat: The Culture of News and the Early Life of Romantic Self-Consciousness.” South Atlantic Quarterly 102:1 (2003): 25-52.
“‘Wasted Labor’?? Milton's Eve, the Poet's Work, and the Problem of Sympathy.” English Literary History 64:4 (1997): 415-446.?
“Making Time for History: Wordsworth, the New Historicism, and the Apocalyptic Fallacy.” Studies in Romanticism 35:4 (1996): 563-77.
Short Articles
"Introduction" to About Geoffrey Hartman: Materials for a Study of Influence. Ed. Frances Ferguson and Kevis Goodman.? Philological Quarterly 92:3 (2014): 139-142.
“Uncertain Disease: The Science of Nostalgia.” Hektoen International: A Journal of Medical Humanties 5:4 (2013). Web.
“Virgil and Romanticism.” The Harvard Virgil Encyclopedia. Ed. Richard F. Thomas and Jan M. Ziolkowski. 3 Vols. Oxford: Wiley Blackwell, 2013. 1094-1096.
“Erasmus Darwin.” Blackwell Encyclopedia of Romanticism. Ed. Frederick Burwick, Nancy Moore Goslee, and Diane Hoeveller. Oxford: Wiley Blackwell, 2012. 329-333 .
“Georgic.” Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics: New Revised Edition.?? Ed. Roland Greene. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2012. 556-557.
“Geoffrey Hartman’s ‘Psychoaesthetics.’” The Wordsworth Circle 37:1 (2006): 17-20.
Book Reviews
Modernity's Mist: British Romanticism and the Poetics of Anticipation, by Emily Rohrbach. Review 19 (www.nbol-19.org): 2016-12-10.
Wordsworth, Commodification, and Social Concern: The Poetics of Modernity, by David Simpson. European Romantic Review 23:1 (2012), 73-79.?
Nostalgia in Transition, 1780-1914, by Linda M. Austin. Victorian Studies 50:1(2007): 130-33. Actual publication date: Autumn, 2008.
The Work of Writing: Literature and Social Change, 1700-1830, by Clifford Siskin, Modern Language Quarterly 61:3 (2000): 545-551.?
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Current Research
My current book project, in progress, studies the common ground and emerging differences between medicine, on the one ?hand, and aesthetic theory and poetic practice, on the other, during the British Enlightenment and Romantic periods.? It analyzes both as environmental sciences – alert to the precarious ecology between persons and their worlds, and concerned with the sensuous experience of place and displacement during an era defined by unprecedented degrees and kinds of mobility.
English Department Classes
spring, 2022
246F/1
Graduate Proseminar: The Later-Eighteenth Century
British 18th-Century
Graduate Courses
fall, 2021
45A/1
Literature in English: Through Milton
Introductory Surveys
45A/102 -- discussion section
Zodrow, Kristin
45A/103 -- discussion section
Zodrow, Kristin
45A/105 -- discussion section
Funderburg, Katie
45A/106 -- discussion section
Funderburg, Katie
spring, 2021
190/1
Research Seminar: Literary Collaboration: Samuel Coleridge and William and Dorothy Wordsworth
British 19th-Century
Poetry
Research Seminars
fall, 2020
45A/1
Literature in English: Through Milton
Introductory Surveys
45A/101 -- discussion section
Warren, Noah
45A/103 -- discussion section
Warren, Noah
45A/105 -- discussion section
James, John Patrick
45A/106 -- discussion section
James, John Patrick
118/1
Milton
Pre-1800 Requirement
Renaissance and Early Modern
Poetry
spring, 2020
165/1
Special Topics: Elegy, Mourning, and the Representation of the Holocaust
Poetry
Special Topics
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