Professor Elizabeth Swanson Goldberg,

Author of Beyond Terror: Gender, Narrative, Human Rights

Babson College English professor Elizabeth Swanson Goldberg will speak as part of the 2008 Ropes Lecture Series on Violence and Literature: The Humanities in a Post-9-11 World, on February 12.

Goldberg will present “Of Manifestos and Manifesting:Professing Literature and Human Rights in the Age of Terror.”

The 2008 Ropes series, sponsored by the Department of English and Comparative Literature at the University of Cincinnati, explores theinterrelations of violence and literature in a post-9/11 world and seeks to understand how human rights issues are central to the humanities.

Goldberg is the author of Beyond Terror: Gender, Narrative, Human Rights (Rutgers University Press, 2007) and has published articles in journals and edited collections in the areas of multicultural literatureand pedagogies, gender studies, and human rights. She is currently co-editing a collection of essays on torture since 9/11, along with aspecial issue of the journal Peace Review devoted to literature, film, and human rights.

She teaches courses in international literatures and human rights, as well as Babson's interdisciplinary Arts and Humanities Foundation course.

Goldberg earned both a B.A. and M.A. at Northeastern University, and a Ph.D. from Miami University of Ohio. In 2007 Goldberg was named Teacher of the Year by undergraduate students, and earned the Dean’s Teaching Award in 2006.