Professor Goldberg teaches intermediate and advanced courses in international literatures and human rights, Babson's interdisciplinary Arts and Humanities Foundation course, and a summer course in Stellenbosch, South Africa. She currently holds the Mandell Family Term Chair (2007-2011).

Dr. Goldberg was voted Professor of the Year by the graduating class in 2007, and has received the Nan Langowitz Women Who Make a Difference Award (2007), the Dean’s Award for Excellence in Teaching (2006), and the faculty Innovators Among Us award (2004).

Author of Beyond Terror: Gender, Narrative, Human Rights (Rutgers University Press, 2007), Dr. Goldberg has published articles in journals and edited collections in the areas of multicultural literature and pedagogies, gender studies, and human rights. She recently edited a special issue of the transnational journal Peace Review devoted to the subject of literature, film, and human rights (Spring 2008), and is currently co-editing a collection of essays on torture since 9/11, along with two collections on literature and human rights: one on theory, and one on pedagogy.

Dr. Goldberg serves as Vice-Chair and Commissioner on the Barnstable County Human Rights Commission, as a Director on the Board of The Emancipation Network, and on the Editorial Board of the international journal Teaching in Higher Education.

Areas of expertise include: African and South Asian Literatures; Multi-Ethnic Literatures of the United States; postcolonial and narrative theories; film studies; gender studies, and human rights.